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4. Corroborate transportation investment with land
use planning (at city-wide and neighbourhood
levels) to:
a. Densify the community cores, including
the downtown; and
b. Redevelop neighbourhoods that are
ready for large scale residential replace-
ment and reinvestment.
5. Monitor the densification process and mixed use
development in community cores and the urban
corridor, and establish city-wide benchmarks for
a balanced and realistic mix of motorized and
non-motorized movements of people, goods and
services in order to support the healthy com-
munity goals and the GHG reduction objectives.
6. Improve and reinforce the established road
network of the urban corridor that empha-
sizes the three main north-south routes:
Yale-Vedder,
Evans-Ashwell,
and
Chilli-
wack River Road-Young-Broadway. (Map 13)
7. Elevate the capacities and design standards of the
supplementary north-south routes, Prest Road
and Lickman Road, as per the City’s 10-year capi-
tal work plan.
8. Consider new secondary north-south routes
within Sardis-Vedder, especially in the block
between Vedder Road and Evans Road to en-
able short intra and inter-neighbourhood trips.
9. Continue to improve urban road connectivity,
especially the east-west route links: from Air-
port Road to Evans/Ashwell Road, the South
Sumas extension between Vedder Road and
Chilliwack River Road, and other locations
that are essential to network development.
10. Expand the local transit system in accordance with
the Transit Future Plan’s recommendations; con-
sider this plan’s servicing level as the minimum
target and monitor the urban corridor’s densifi-
cation and mixed use development for new tran-
sit attraction points and expansion opportunities.
11. Improve the standards and connectivity of the bi-
cycle route network with an aim to:
a. Establish cycling within the urban corridor
as an effective alternative transportation
mode, particularly for school trips and
short distant traveling ;
b. Develop an attractive, safe, city-wide rec-
reational bicycle route system to promote
outdoor activity, community health and
tourism; and
c. Link on- and off-road bicycle routes
and hiking trails for an effec-
tive outdoor recreational network.
12. Expand the sidewalk and walkway systems and
improve their standards, designs and connectivity
to encourage:
a. Alternative transportation for school and
regular short-distance trips;
b. Healthy living and a vibrant street life in
neighbourhoods that are associated with
the downtown, community cores and oth-
er nodes in the urban corridor; and
c. Active living in suburban neighbourhoods .
13. Develop a mobility strategy for seniors, with a
focus on alternative modes of transportation (in-
cluding scooters), seniors’ service locations and
other frequent destinations, the locational rela-
tionship between their homes and service pro-
viders/shopping facilities, and assistance to driv-
ing seniors and to seniors at risk of shut-in due to
very limited access to private and public transpor-
tation.
UTILITIES
Providing essential utilities is a traditional local gov-
ernment function. Technological advances and
current environmental concerns and approaches,
however, have created new frontiers that challenge
municipalities to be innovative and progressive. His-
torically, community systems are preferable to indi-
Goal 5 - Build Healthy Attractive Communities