A chat with the mayor - and you can too!
October 4, 2019
Once a month you can head down to the Lynn Valley Library and have a face-to-face chat with the mayor. The open invitation is a longstanding and unique North Vancouver tradition.
Meet your mayor

Mayor Little's thoughts on . . .
Traffic and parking
I think one thing we have not managed well . . . we have to be forward thinking about how to get people out of their cars but that doesn’t mean we don’t have to manage the cars that are there now. There are some neighbourhoods that are really under pressure now. The Sunnyhurst/Ross area. That was a place where we went from 1.6 car spaces per unit to 1.2 and now you really see it. On 27th it is about design. The Evergreen development all has outdoor entrances so people don’t want to use the parkade. The street is full but if you walk around to the underground garage there is lots of space.Lynn Canyon
It’s a trending issue region wide - what is happening is people are moving into smaller and smaller spaces. Where might have gone into backyard, instead now engage in destination recreation on a Saturday and Sunday. Destination recreation is getting out of the house because there is no space there. We are on the edge of this. More and more people are coming to anything that is free: Deep Cove, Panorama Park, Lynn Canyon. The North Shore is now playing backyard to the entire region. We have had major traffic problems to and from the North Shore during the work week and what we are seeing now it's the same on the weekends. We are going to have to engage in the regulatory side with parking . . . we are going to have to do some more traffic demand management techniques where we are paying for parking or we are paying for access. I think we have to look at it so we are responsible with our neighbours and our residents are protected from the popularity. We have talked about issuing a free annual pass with your taxes so residents can access for free. For far to long it has been too easy for tour groups to use our public parks.Changing character of Lynn Valley
We were under some pressure to put a cap on height and the council of the time was supportive of that. But there were arguments raised that said "If you ever want to do something like the Kiwanis building again – purpose built rental, supportive senior housing – don’t lock down height because you won’t be able to do it." So the justification on height was the rare unicorn of an amenity and then all the developments come in pushing for height. I think we should have locked down height earlier in the OCP and LAP then we would have been in a better position. Then maybe we could have budged for affordable social housing but not high-end luxury housing that is going for $1000 a square foot.More playgrounds and updated community centres
There is a pot of money that is set aside for a youth centre that will be tied into the Kirkstone space on the Karen Magnussen side of things. We see Karen Magnussen as an aging facility that needs to be redeveloped .Looking for more?
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Community Calendar
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Oct 1910:00 AM - 12:00 PM3220 Mountain Hwy North Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Oct 19
Prenatal Yoga
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMMollie Nye House -
Oct 20
Chess Drop-in
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLynn Valley Library 1277 Lynn Valley Rd, North Vancouver BC V7J 0A2, Canada -
Oct 22
Toddlertime
10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLynn Valley Library 1277 Lynn Valley Rd, North Vancouver BC V7J 0A2, Canada