Businesses & Jobs
Artificial Intelligence & Data Centres
Imagine promise
Surrey will welcome the ones that pay their way: no property tax breaks, the full cost of their own grid and water upgrades, waste heat captured for Surrey City Energy's district heating, water recycling, local construction and operating jobs, and a community benefit agreement before a permit is issued. Industrial land stays for the businesses that employ Surrey residents.
Business Permitting
Imagine promises
One contact at City Hall for film shoots, festivals, and events, so the people who bring work to Surrey aren't the ones waiting the longest.
One point of contact to guide applicants through the process, with pre-approved designs and fast-tracked approvals for laneway homes, secondary suites, and multiplexes. The small stuff gets a 60-day lane, with part of the fee back for every day late, free at seven months.
So investment lands in every part of Surrey and not just downtown.
Economic Growth
Imagine promises
Surrey's front door on the Fraser River and the best new waterfront in the region. The master plan is adopted by 2029, with phase 1, including dike and site work and the promenade, scoped and funded with partners. The district includes a public quay, pier, and waterfront promenade, a public market, night market, and food hall anchored by hotels, an amphitheatre and civic plaza, a major new waterfront park, a signature SURREY landmark with public art and monuments, and restaurants, shops, and mixed-income homes at transit density. It also brings deep-tech office space with a startup incubator, a Surrey Trade Centre with coworking and meeting spaces, and a Commonwealth Village that houses Games athletes and then becomes homes for Surrey families.
So investment lands in every part of Surrey and not just downtown.
Attract office employers to City Centre so people can work where they live, require real ground-floor shops and restaurants in new towers, build out the university district around SFU Surrey and KPU, and finish the public realm around Surrey Central and King George stations. Build an international trade and convention centre with the Board of Trade, SFU, KPU, and private partners: the City brings the site and the approvals, and the partners bring the capital.
Support the markets, festivals, and events that bring customers to local main streets.
Surrey graduates thousands of tech and trades students a year, and most build their companies somewhere else. A startup should be able to begin here, hire here, and stay here.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Government Procurement
Imagine promises
Others promise to review City Hall. We're going to run it, in public.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Jobs for young people
Imagine promises
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Small Businesses
Imagine promises
Residents buy local with the card in their pocket.
So investment lands in every part of Surrey and not just downtown.
Every extortion victim gets a liaison and a path to safety.
Support the markets, festivals, and events that bring customers to local main streets.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Tourism
Imagine promises
Built with Discover Surrey, the Surrey Hotel and Motel Association, and operators as part of a tourism investment-readiness plan. Hotel and attraction projects get the same 180-day clock on rezonings and development permits as housing.
It meets with the mayor and senior staff on a fixed schedule, and its advice is attached to the reports council votes on. Every land-use or major-event report says how it affects tourism, and council will reinstate a liaison to Discover Surrey.
MRDT won't fill holes in the general budget, the online-platform share stays in tourism, and renewal work with Discover Surrey and the hotels starts well before the April 1, 2029 deadline. The MRDT plan and results are presented in person at an open council meeting every year, with a line-by-line account of the City's 0.4% share. Any change to how MRDT is used, administered, or governed goes first to the tourism table in writing, with at least 60 days to respond.
2031 if the current council gets its letter in before the end of October, 2033 if it doesn't. A Commonwealth Games bid would bring facilities, transit, and the world's attention to Surrey years sooner than waiting our turn, with a Commonwealth Village in the Waterfront District. Same test as the arena: partners, price, and date, or it waits, and no host commitment without a provincial and federal guarantee that covers the cost.
The Cloverdale Rodeo gets special event status, and the Fairgrounds, Softball City, and Newton Athletic Park become anchors of any Games bid. Gambling will not expand anywhere else in Surrey.
Climate Change, Heat, Fires, & the Environment
Artificial Intelligence & Data Centres
Imagine promise
Surrey will welcome the ones that pay their way: no property tax breaks, the full cost of their own grid and water upgrades, waste heat captured for Surrey City Energy's district heating, water recycling, local construction and operating jobs, and a community benefit agreement before a permit is issued. Industrial land stays for the businesses that employ Surrey residents.
Energy-Efficient Buildings
Imagine promises
Flooding
Imagine promises
Clear plans, regular drills, and neighbourhood-level readiness, supported by a new Public Information Officer.
Heat domes, atmospheric rivers, wildfire smoke, and floods are Surrey's new normal. The strategy sets out how the City responds to weather and climate emergencies, including heat-warning check-ins on seniors living alone, run with the fire service and community groups, and flood and smoke plans for the neighbourhoods most at risk.
Green Space
Imagine promises
Private Vehicles & Parking
Imagine promises
Surrey runs on trucks and has nowhere near enough legal places to park them, so rigs end up on farmland, on side streets, and in the wrong neighbourhoods. Built with the trucking industry, the province, and the port, and paired with enforcement that finally has somewhere to send people.
Surrey's lights run on a timetable. The City tested adaptive signals on 72 Avenue and reported in 2013 that they worked, and drivers are still waiting. Under an Imagine Surrey council, every light responds to real traffic.
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Imagine promises
BRT 1: Scott Road, Strawberry Hill, and East Newton, converting the R6 RapidBus to full BRT and extending it to 152 Street via 72 Avenue. BRT 2: Surrey Central to Semiahmoo via King George Boulevard and Newton, prioritized for the next round of SkyTrain expansion. BRT 3: Surrey Central to Guildford, then down 152 Street through East Newton to Semiahmoo, with a stop serving Highway 10 and a possible branch to Carvolth Exchange. The City's share is the road works, signal priority, and curb lanes.
Planned in consultation with community groups, including HUB Cycling and Movement YVR.
Urban Heat
Imagine promises
Heat domes, atmospheric rivers, wildfire smoke, and floods are Surrey's new normal. The strategy sets out how the City responds to weather and climate emergencies, including heat-warning check-ins on seniors living alone, run with the fire service and community groups, and flood and smoke plans for the neighbourhoods most at risk.
Clear plans, regular drills, and neighbourhood-level readiness, supported by a new Public Information Officer.
Walking & Cycling
Imagine promises
Planned in consultation with community groups, including HUB Cycling and Movement YVR.
A published Missing Sidewalks Map with annual targets, school and transit routes first, paired with safer crossings and lighting. Repaved sidewalks don't count toward the 50, and sidewalks that need repaving still get done at the same pace.
Water & Sewage
Imagine promises
If we can fix Metro Vancouver, we should. Cut the number of directors, make the board answer to the taxpayers who fund it, and publish Surrey's net contribution to the region every quarter. If the region won't reform, Surrey residents get a say on the terms of membership through a plebiscite. Nobody walks Surrey out the door without asking you.
Zoning
Imagine promises
The fee comes back at 1/30th a day, so at seven months the permit is free. Safety checks are never skipped.
The fee comes back at 1/150th a day, so at seven months the permit is free.
In November 2025, City Hall sent all 262 homes at 152 Street and 19 Avenue back to the drawing board: 202 non-market rentals, along with 40 supportive and 20 complex-care homes. An Imagine Surrey council would have said yes.
And City land offered for school sites where the district needs them.
Community Centres, Libraries, Parks, and Other Public Spaces
After-School Programs
Imagine promises
Hubs with improved safety, lighting, and local art.
Community Centres
Imagine promises
Funded by pausing the City's $198 million arena commitment until the four arena tests are met, by provincial and federal partners, and by City land. Each one is built with its neighbourhood: gyms, program space, and child care in every centre, and pools, ice, and specialized playing surfaces where the budget and the partners allow.
Staying active and connected shouldn't cost more as you age.
Hubs with improved safety, lighting, and local art.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Fitness & Sports Facilities
Imagine promises
Half price at every City recreation program, pool, arena, museum, art gallery, and attraction, starting in the 2027 budget. At the City's 2026 rates, a senior's annual recreation pass drops from $436 to $218, with discounts applied automatically through the SurreyPass. The fee schedule and uptake are reported every year, and the promise lives inside the inflation rule, not beside it. Seniors shouldn't pay more. They should pay less.
Every Surrey child gets their first swim lessons free at City pools, registered through the SurreyPass. In a city with a river on one side and the ocean on the other, no kid should grow up unable to swim. We'll hire the lifeguards and instructors to open the spaces, and the program grows as capacity does.
The fastest-growing sports in the region deserve a home. The business case, the partners, and the site are published in year one. The City provides the land at its appraised value and $1 million for the business case and site work, and senior governments and private partners fund the build, not property taxes. Same test as the arena: partners, price, and date, or it waits.
Yes to an arena, no to this deal. Publish the valuation, the private capital, and the appraisal of the current site before any decision, with the business plan and site decision in year one. The $198 million the City has set aside for this arena through 2030 goes to work on community centres first, until the four tests are met.
Green Space
Imagine promises
Health Infrastructure
Imagine promise
Parks
Imagine promises
Pedestrian Spaces
Imagine promises
A published Missing Sidewalks Map with annual targets, school and transit routes first, paired with safer crossings and lighting. Repaved sidewalks don't count toward the 50, and sidewalks that need repaving still get done at the same pace.
Public Washrooms
Imagine promises
Including the Newton, Scottsdale, and Guildford exchanges and the South Surrey Park and Ride. We'll press TransLink to build the station washrooms, with City cost-sharing where needed.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Sidewalks & Bike Paths
Imagine promises
A published Missing Sidewalks Map with annual targets, school and transit routes first, paired with safer crossings and lighting. Repaved sidewalks don't count toward the 50, and sidewalks that need repaving still get done at the same pace.
Planned in consultation with community groups, including HUB Cycling and Movement YVR.
Zoning
Imagine promises
The fee comes back at 1/30th a day, so at seven months the permit is free. Safety checks are never skipped.
The fee comes back at 1/150th a day, so at seven months the permit is free.
In November 2025, City Hall sent all 262 homes at 152 Street and 19 Avenue back to the drawing board: 202 non-market rentals, along with 40 supportive and 20 complex-care homes. An Imagine Surrey council would have said yes.
And City land offered for school sites where the district needs them.
Culture & Events
Cultural Spaces & Venues
Imagine promises
The Cloverdale Rodeo gets special event status, and the Fairgrounds, Softball City, and Newton Athletic Park become anchors of any Games bid. Gambling will not expand anywhere else in Surrey.
The Black-owned restaurants, grocers, and beauty stores between 105A Avenue and 108 Avenue already make it one. The City makes it official and protects it: banners and wayfinding, façade and signage grants, a permanent festival plaza, stable space for the Black Arts Centre, and small storefronts in the new towers that existing businesses can move into at a rent they can pay.
Including Surrey's Chinese, Korean, and Japanese communities, with a district of their own where the community wants one.
Yes to an arena, no to this deal. Publish the valuation, the private capital, and the appraisal of the current site before any decision, with the business plan and site decision in year one. The $198 million the City has set aside for this arena through 2030 goes to work on community centres first, until the four tests are met.
Festivals & Events
Imagine promises
Surrey's 2SLGBTQIA+ community deserves to celebrate with City Hall behind it.
More washrooms and handwashing stations, and recycling and safe disposal of cooking oil and anything else that could end up in the storm drains, so one of the largest Vaisakhi celebrations in the world stays as clean as it is joyful.
One contact at City Hall for film shoots, festivals, and events, so the people who bring work to Surrey aren't the ones waiting the longest.
Surrey was incorporated on November 10, 1879. The legacy projects: the Waterfront District master plan adopted, the Greenway Loop in development, murals and monuments to the city's champions in every town centre, new cultural districts designated, and the bid for the Commonwealth Games launched, with neighbourhood events across the city.
Monuments and Landmarks
Imagine promises
Public Art
Imagine promises
Keep funding the Surrey Art Gallery, the Surrey Arts Centre, and the public art program, and open City spaces to studios and rehearsals at cost.
Tourism
Imagine promises
Built with Discover Surrey, the Surrey Hotel and Motel Association, and operators as part of a tourism investment-readiness plan. Hotel and attraction projects get the same 180-day clock on rezonings and development permits as housing.
It meets with the mayor and senior staff on a fixed schedule, and its advice is attached to the reports council votes on. Every land-use or major-event report says how it affects tourism, and council will reinstate a liaison to Discover Surrey.
MRDT won't fill holes in the general budget, the online-platform share stays in tourism, and renewal work with Discover Surrey and the hotels starts well before the April 1, 2029 deadline. The MRDT plan and results are presented in person at an open council meeting every year, with a line-by-line account of the City's 0.4% share. Any change to how MRDT is used, administered, or governed goes first to the tourism table in writing, with at least 60 days to respond.
2031 if the current council gets its letter in before the end of October, 2033 if it doesn't. A Commonwealth Games bid would bring facilities, transit, and the world's attention to Surrey years sooner than waiting our turn, with a Commonwealth Village in the Waterfront District. Same test as the arena: partners, price, and date, or it waits, and no host commitment without a provincial and federal guarantee that covers the cost.
The Cloverdale Rodeo gets special event status, and the Fairgrounds, Softball City, and Newton Athletic Park become anchors of any Games bid. Gambling will not expand anywhere else in Surrey.
Housing & Homelessness
Affordability
Imagine promises
Co-ops, non-profit and shared-equity ownership, and covenants that keep the price fair for the next buyer too. Pre-approved plans for laneway homes, suites, and multiplexes, so a family can add a home on the lot it already has. Every quarter, the City will publish three numbers: homes approved, homes built, and homes people can afford.
Vancouver has taxed empty homes since 2017 and put the money into housing. Surrey can't, because the province hasn't given us the power. We ask for it in year one, and until we get it, demand that the Speculation and Vacancy Tax collected on Surrey's empty homes come back to Surrey to build affordable housing here.
Council already has this power, and we will pass the program in 2027. The break is secured on title and repaid in full if the deal is broken, only the new building is exempt, and the cost is capped and published every year. Co-ops and co-housing get City land and a single desk that knows how to say yes.
The fee comes back at 1/30th a day, so at seven months the permit is free. Safety checks are never skipped.
With covenants that keep the homes affordable for decades.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Building Maintenance & Occupant Health
Imagine promises
From garbage and dumping to construction sites, with rodent control written into demolition and excavation permits, so the rats don't just move next door.
Heat domes, atmospheric rivers, wildfire smoke, and floods are Surrey's new normal. The strategy sets out how the City responds to weather and climate emergencies, including heat-warning check-ins on seniors living alone, run with the fire service and community groups, and flood and smoke plans for the neighbourhoods most at risk.
Homelessness
Imagine promises
Surrey's homeless count keeps climbing, and the answer is homes with supports in them, so people come off the street and stay off it.
Connect people to wraparound supports so they have somewhere to go.
In November 2025, City Hall sent all 262 homes at 152 Street and 19 Avenue back to the drawing board: 202 non-market rentals, along with 40 supportive and 20 complex-care homes. An Imagine Surrey council would have said yes.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Housing Accessibility
Imagine promises
On main arteries with transit and services.
With covenants that keep the homes affordable for decades.
Indigenous-Led Housing
Imagine promises
The Squamish Nation is building thousands of rental homes at Sen̓áḵw, on its own land and its own terms. In Surrey, that means the Nations' land and leadership, the City's servicing and approvals at speed, and a share of the homes locked in as truly affordable for decades.
With covenants that keep the homes affordable for decades.
Property Taxes
Imagine promises
Your City property taxes, the general tax and the roads levy together, rise no more than BC inflation for the year before, with no new levies or parcel taxes to get around it. We plan at 2.5%, and if inflation runs lower, so does the increase. The math is published before every budget vote.
Vancouver has taxed empty homes since 2017 and put the money into housing. Surrey can't, because the province hasn't given us the power. We ask for it in year one, and until we get it, demand that the Speculation and Vacancy Tax collected on Surrey's empty homes come back to Surrey to build affordable housing here.
Public & Assistive Housing
Imagine promises
In November 2025, City Hall sent all 262 homes at 152 Street and 19 Avenue back to the drawing board: 202 non-market rentals, along with 40 supportive and 20 complex-care homes. An Imagine Surrey council would have said yes.
With covenants that keep the homes affordable for decades.
On main arteries with transit and services.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Rent & Rental Stock
Imagine promises
A crackdown on slumlords with tougher inspections and real penalties, and pet-friendly terms in every home the City helps build. Protection for renters who play by the rules, and support for the landlords who do too, with a faster Residential Tenancy Branch process, pressed for in Victoria, when a tenant is violent, dealing drugs, or wrecking the building.
A homeowner renting a room or a suite in the home they live in is part of the answer, and the rules for them should stay simple.
Vancouver has taxed empty homes since 2017 and put the money into housing. Surrey can't, because the province hasn't given us the power. We ask for it in year one, and until we get it, demand that the Speculation and Vacancy Tax collected on Surrey's empty homes come back to Surrey to build affordable housing here.
Council already has this power, and we will pass the program in 2027. The break is secured on title and repaid in full if the deal is broken, only the new building is exempt, and the cost is capped and published every year. Co-ops and co-housing get City land and a single desk that knows how to say yes.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Zoning
Imagine promises
The fee comes back at 1/30th a day, so at seven months the permit is free. Safety checks are never skipped.
The fee comes back at 1/150th a day, so at seven months the permit is free.
In November 2025, City Hall sent all 262 homes at 152 Street and 19 Avenue back to the drawing board: 202 non-market rentals, along with 40 supportive and 20 complex-care homes. An Imagine Surrey council would have said yes.
And City land offered for school sites where the district needs them.
Human Rights
Physical Accessibility
Imagine promises
So everyone in Surrey can take part.
A published Missing Sidewalks Map with annual targets, school and transit routes first, paired with safer crossings and lighting. Repaved sidewalks don't count toward the 50, and sidewalks that need repaving still get done at the same pace.
Public Washrooms
Imagine promises
Including the Newton, Scottsdale, and Guildford exchanges and the South Surrey Park and Ride. We'll press TransLink to build the station washrooms, with City cost-sharing where needed.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Recent Immigrants
Imagine promises
Trans Rights & Access to Public Services
Imagine promises
Surrey's 2SLGBTQIA+ community deserves to celebrate with City Hall behind it.
Local Government, Planning, & Democracy
Artificial Intelligence & Data Centres
Imagine promise
Surrey will welcome the ones that pay their way: no property tax breaks, the full cost of their own grid and water upgrades, waste heat captured for Surrey City Energy's district heating, water recycling, local construction and operating jobs, and a community benefit agreement before a permit is issued. Industrial land stays for the businesses that employ Surrey residents.
Budgeting
Imagine promises
We'll hire the officers and firefighters Surrey needs, build the community centres and parks it needs, and protect services like garbage pickup. Administrative savings only where service levels hold.
Ottawa and Victoria fund big projects alongside other partners.
Your City property taxes, the general tax and the roads levy together, rise no more than BC inflation for the year before, with no new levies or parcel taxes to get around it. We plan at 2.5%, and if inflation runs lower, so does the increase. The math is published before every budget vote.
Good Governance
Imagine promises
Others promise to review City Hall. We're going to run it, in public.
If we're behind, you'll read it from us first.
Government Procurement
Imagine promises
Others promise to review City Hall. We're going to run it, in public.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Long-Term Plan
Imagine promises
And City land offered for school sites where the district needs them.
Sizing roads, transit, parking, washrooms, water, and sewer for the peaks, using Discover Surrey's visitor data.
A mass transit feasibility study and business case for the King George corridor, so senior governments commit to it and South Surrey is next in line after current SkyTrain construction. We'll ask Ottawa and Victoria for the money by name.
Public Engagement
Imagine promises
Every Surrey councillor is elected citywide, which means some neighbourhoods have nobody who answers to them. Voters decide, and we respect the result. Imagine Surrey is open to exploring other reforms, such as ranked choice voting, as part of any referendum.
A standing committee of the people who use Surrey's roads and transit every day: bus riders, truckers, taxi and rideshare drivers, tourism operators, cyclists, seniors, people with disabilities, business owners, and students. It meets in public, sets the order of the City's asks to TransLink and the province, and reports to council every quarter on what got built and what didn't.
If we're behind, you'll read it from us first.
Youth Engagement
Imagine promises
Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction
Mental Health Crisis Response
Imagine promise
Not every 911 call needs a police response. People in crisis get the right help, police can focus on crime, and emergency rooms aren't the fallback.
Overdoses & the Contaminated Drug Supply
Imagine promise
Not every 911 call needs a police response. People in crisis get the right help, police can focus on crime, and emergency rooms aren't the fallback.
Public Drug Use
Imagine promises
Dedicated crews and new City-owned street sweepers, starting with transit hubs, schools, parks, and business districts. Dumpers get billed the full cost of the cleanup, with real fines for repeat offenders. The crews are in-house, built with CUPE and the workers who do the job.
Not every 911 call needs a police response. People in crisis get the right help, police can focus on crime, and emergency rooms aren't the fallback.
Treatment for Addiction
Imagine promises
Not every 911 call needs a police response. People in crisis get the right help, police can focus on crime, and emergency rooms aren't the fallback.
Connect people to wraparound supports so they have somewhere to go.
Public Safety & Policing
Non-Police-Based Public Safety
Imagine promises
Dedicated crews and new City-owned street sweepers, starting with transit hubs, schools, parks, and business districts. Dumpers get billed the full cost of the cleanup, with real fines for repeat offenders. The crews are in-house, built with CUPE and the workers who do the job.
Council suspended the society's grant in April 2024, in the middle of an extortion crisis. An Imagine Surrey council restores its full grant in the 2027 budget and puts it on a four-year funding agreement, so its volunteers are never used as a bargaining chip again.
Not every 911 call needs a police response. People in crisis get the right help, police can focus on crime, and emergency rooms aren't the fallback.
Police Funding
Imagine promises
More boots on the ground, faster 911 response, visible neighbourhood patrols, new precinct offices where they're needed, and modern frontline equipment for organized crime, high-risk incidents, and repeat offenders. We'll listen to the police on their needs for equipment, staff, and resources.
Focused on extortion shootings, violent crime, and chronic disorder, with tactical cameras in the highest-risk areas. A re-energized Project IRIS, Surrey's camera registry, so every business and home with a camera can register it with Surrey Police and investigators can pull footage fast.
A date negotiated with the province and the police board. The police service's own target is late 2027. We will hold every party to a published date, keep the public informed every step of the way, and report until the job is done.
Police Wrongdoing & Accountability
Imagine promises
Public Drug Use
Imagine promises
Dedicated crews and new City-owned street sweepers, starting with transit hubs, schools, parks, and business districts. Dumpers get billed the full cost of the cleanup, with real fines for repeat offenders. The crews are in-house, built with CUPE and the workers who do the job.
Not every 911 call needs a police response. People in crisis get the right help, police can focus on crime, and emergency rooms aren't the fallback.
Upstream Causes of Crime
Imagine promises
So no victim gets bounced between systems, and leaving is possible.
Connect people to wraparound supports so they have somewhere to go.
Not every 911 call needs a police response. People in crisis get the right help, police can focus on crime, and emergency rooms aren't the fallback.
Victim Safety and Support
Imagine promises
Every extortion victim gets a liaison and a path to safety.
So no victim gets bounced between systems, and leaving is possible.
Public Services
After-School Programs
Imagine promises
Hubs with improved safety, lighting, and local art.
Childcare
Imagine promises
Fast-track permits for operators, waive City fees for non-profit providers, and take half the City's property tax off new licensed child care spaces for up to 10 years. Partner with the school district, non-profits, employers, and the province's ChildCareBC New Spaces Fund so the spaces actually get built.
Because a nurse on nights needs care that doesn't end at six.
Health Infrastructure
Imagine promise
Waste Removal
Imagine promises
So nobody has an excuse to dump. Paired with the 48-hour Clean Streets cleanup standard, dumpers billed the full cost, and real fines for repeat offenders.
From garbage and dumping to construction sites, with rodent control written into demolition and excavation permits, so the rats don't just move next door.
Dedicated crews and new City-owned street sweepers, starting with transit hubs, schools, parks, and business districts. Dumpers get billed the full cost of the cleanup, with real fines for repeat offenders. The crews are in-house, built with CUPE and the workers who do the job.
Water & Sewage
Imagine promises
If we can fix Metro Vancouver, we should. Cut the number of directors, make the board answer to the taxpayers who fund it, and publish Surrey's net contribution to the region every quarter. If the region won't reform, Surrey residents get a say on the terms of membership through a plebiscite. Nobody walks Surrey out the door without asking you.
Reconciliation & Indigenous Nations
Indigenous-Led Housing
Imagine promises
The Squamish Nation is building thousands of rental homes at Sen̓áḵw, on its own land and its own terms. In Surrey, that means the Nations' land and leadership, the City's servicing and approvals at speed, and a share of the homes locked in as truly affordable for decades.
With covenants that keep the homes affordable for decades.
Land Title & Governance
Imagine promises
To work together on housing, supports, procurement, and stewardship.
The Squamish Nation is building thousands of rental homes at Sen̓áḵw, on its own land and its own terms. In Surrey, that means the Nations' land and leadership, the City's servicing and approvals at speed, and a share of the homes locked in as truly affordable for decades.
Roads, Transit, & Getting Around
Private Vehicles & Parking
Imagine promises
Surrey runs on trucks and has nowhere near enough legal places to park them, so rigs end up on farmland, on side streets, and in the wrong neighbourhoods. Built with the trucking industry, the province, and the port, and paired with enforcement that finally has somewhere to send people.
Surrey's lights run on a timetable. The City tested adaptive signals on 72 Avenue and reported in 2013 that they worked, and drivers are still waiting. Under an Imagine Surrey council, every light responds to real traffic.
Roads
Imagine promises
Surrey's lights run on a timetable. The City tested adaptive signals on 72 Avenue and reported in 2013 that they worked, and drivers are still waiting. Under an Imagine Surrey council, every light responds to real traffic.
Worst bottlenecks first, with safer intersections and better lighting, funded through development cost charges, TransLink cost-sharing, and provincial and federal programs. Where nobody lives nearby, build around the clock so the work is done sooner.
Taxi drivers' hours are capped while rideshare drivers' are not. We will fix Surrey's own rules and press the province for one standard for both.
The City hires its own tow truck drivers under a new City service. Priority goes to the tows that clear congestion, not the ones that make the biggest profit.
Street clearing works, but the sidewalks around parks barely get touched. Kids and seniors shouldn't be walking in the road.
A standing committee of the people who use Surrey's roads and transit every day: bus riders, truckers, taxi and rideshare drivers, tourism operators, cyclists, seniors, people with disabilities, business owners, and students. It meets in public, sets the order of the City's asks to TransLink and the province, and reports to council every quarter on what got built and what didn't.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Sidewalks & Bike Paths
Imagine promises
A published Missing Sidewalks Map with annual targets, school and transit routes first, paired with safer crossings and lighting. Repaved sidewalks don't count toward the 50, and sidewalks that need repaving still get done at the same pace.
Planned in consultation with community groups, including HUB Cycling and Movement YVR.
Traffic Safety Around Schools
Imagine promises
A published Missing Sidewalks Map with annual targets, school and transit routes first, paired with safer crossings and lighting. Repaved sidewalks don't count toward the 50, and sidewalks that need repaving still get done at the same pace.
Transit Projects
Imagine promises
A mass transit feasibility study and business case for the King George corridor, so senior governments commit to it and South Surrey is next in line after current SkyTrain construction. We'll ask Ottawa and Victoria for the money by name.
BRT 1: Scott Road, Strawberry Hill, and East Newton, converting the R6 RapidBus to full BRT and extending it to 152 Street via 72 Avenue. BRT 2: Surrey Central to Semiahmoo via King George Boulevard and Newton, prioritized for the next round of SkyTrain expansion. BRT 3: Surrey Central to Guildford, then down 152 Street through East Newton to Semiahmoo, with a stop serving Highway 10 and a possible branch to Carvolth Exchange. The City's share is the road works, signal priority, and curb lanes.
Victoria's City Hall bought youth bus passes in bulk, and Surrey, on its way to a million people, has the buying power to do the same. The City will negotiate a bulk fare agreement with TransLink, starting with low-income adults in 2027 and reaching every resident by 2030, delivered through the SurreyPass. Today an adult monthly pass starts at $117.20.
As the province writes its passenger rail strategy, with stations at Scott Road, Kennedy-Nordel Way, Newton, Sullivan, and Cloverdale.
Scott Road is Surrey's front door for anyone coming across the Pattullo Bridge. Working with TransLink and the province, plan it as a real hub: the BRT 1 terminus, a commuter rail stop, park-and-ride, secure bike parking, public washrooms, and homes and shops built around it, tied into the Waterfront District next door.
Including the Newton, Scottsdale, and Guildford exchanges and the South Surrey Park and Ride. We'll press TransLink to build the station washrooms, with City cost-sharing where needed.
A city of nurses, warehouse crews, airport shifts, and restaurant closers should not lose its transit at 1 am. Starting with the King George, Scott Road, 152 Street, and Fraser Highway corridors and the exchanges shift workers use.
From Imagine Surrey's signed platform, Contract for a Better Surrey (Platform 2026).
Walking & Cycling
Imagine promises
Planned in consultation with community groups, including HUB Cycling and Movement YVR.
A published Missing Sidewalks Map with annual targets, school and transit routes first, paired with safer crossings and lighting. Repaved sidewalks don't count toward the 50, and sidewalks that need repaving still get done at the same pace.
Biography
Kevin Wilkie, a proud dad, husband and dog owner, has called Surrey home for over 30 years.
From Surrey’s rinks and fields to its neighbourhoods and community centres, Kevin learned that strong communities are built by people who look out for one another and make everyone feel they belong.
Today, Kevin works in Business Development at Black & McDonald, helping businesses reduce costs, improve processes, and find innovative, sustainable solutions. His practical, collaborative approach is grounded in turning challenges into opportunities.
Kevin entered public life as the 2025 Green Party candidate for Cloverdale-Langley City, gaining firsthand insight into the priorities of local families, businesses, and neighbourhoods. That experience strengthened his commitment to climate resilience, urban carbon reduction, and community-centred leadership.
As an Imagine Surrey council candidate, Kevin believes progress starts with listening, respecting different perspectives, and working together to build a Surrey where everyone can belong, grow, and thrive.
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