Doug Elford

Businesses & Jobs

Business Permitting

Safe Surrey promise

Adopt zero tolerance on illegal dumping: $10,000 fines and 10-year business bans for operators caught dumping.

Economic Growth

Safe Surrey promise

Buy the federally owned Heppell farmland at 192 Street and 36 Avenue and protect it as farmland permanently, so local farmers can sell direct.

Climate Change, Heat, Fires, & the Environment

Green Space

Safe Surrey promise

Turn the former Rosemary Heights Retreat Centre lands into a permanent park instead of allowing 226 townhomes and 96 condos to be built there.

Zoning

Safe Surrey promise

Give Crescent Beach and Ocean Park heritage designation, freeze zoning as single family, pass a no-tree-cut bylaw, and stop the 89-townhome project at 128 Street and 24 Avenue.

Community Centres, Libraries, Parks, and Other Public Spaces

Fitness & Sports Facilities

Safe Surrey promises

Build new swimming pools for Clayton Heights and Cloverdale.
Build a new pool and community centre for City Centre.
Provide free swim lessons for Surrey kids aged 3 to 16.

Green Space

Safe Surrey promise

Turn the former Rosemary Heights Retreat Centre lands into a permanent park instead of allowing 226 townhomes and 96 condos to be built there.

Health Infrastructure

Safe Surrey promise

Dedicate City-owned land at 6965 King George Boulevard in Newton to a second full-service Surrey General Hospital and approve every City permit within 60 days.

Zoning

Safe Surrey promise

Give Crescent Beach and Ocean Park heritage designation, freeze zoning as single family, pass a no-tree-cut bylaw, and stop the 89-townhome project at 128 Street and 24 Avenue.

Housing & Homelessness

Property Taxes

Safe Surrey promise

Hold the line at zero percent property tax increases for four years.

Zoning

Safe Surrey promise

Give Crescent Beach and Ocean Park heritage designation, freeze zoning as single family, pass a no-tree-cut bylaw, and stop the 89-townhome project at 128 Street and 24 Avenue.

Local Government, Planning, & Democracy

Budgeting

Safe Surrey promise

Cancel City funding for the Locke administration's City Centre arena and redirect that money to building community centres with pools in neighbourhoods that don't have one.

Good Governance

Safe Surrey promise

Launch an independent forensic audit of every City Hall land deal.

Public Safety & Policing

Police Funding

Safe Surrey promises

Put a police helicopter and drone fleet in the air within 90 days.
Give the Surrey Police Service the funding and tools to enforce zero tolerance on crime and extortion targeting Surrey families and businesses.

Public Services

Health Infrastructure

Safe Surrey promise

Dedicate City-owned land at 6965 King George Boulevard in Newton to a second full-service Surrey General Hospital and approve every City permit within 60 days.

Transit & Getting Around

Transit Projects

Safe Surrey promise

Build SkyTrain down King George Boulevard to Newton.

Biography

submitted by the candidate or their team
Doug Elford is a 40-year Newton resident, father of four and two-term City Councillor who started as a grassroots volunteer with the Newton Community Association.

Doug Elford is a 40-year Newton resident, father of four and two-term City Councillor who started as a grassroots volunteer with the Newton Community Association. After 40 years in Newton I see it every day: back lanes, farm roads and parks turned into dumping grounds by contractors, even though the City provides free disposal. A Safe Surrey Coalition council will bring zero tolerance: any company caught dumping loses its business licence and is banned from operating in Surrey for 10 years, individuals pay $10,000 every single time, and cameras will be placed in hotspots to catch them.

See Doug Elford's election promises

Reason for running

submitted by the candidate or their team
Under a Safe Surrey Coalition majority I delivered real results for Surrey, and with a majority council I will deliver again in a third term.

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