UDI Webinar: Metro 2050 and Transport 2050 - Blueprints for the Future

Name: UDI Webinar: Metro 2050 and Transport 2050 - Blueprints for the Future

Date: October 26, 2021

Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

Registration: Sorry, public registration for this event has been closed.

Event Description:

Metro 2050, Metro Vancouver’s Regional Growth Strategy, is the regional federation’s draft vision for accommodating anticipated future growth to the region. The update is being undertaken to: extend the regional growth strategy to the year 2050, consider significant drivers of change like affordability, climate change, resilience, and equity and to implement policy improvements in a number of areas. Metro 2050 was released in June 2021 and is now open for comment until November 26, 2021.

Transport 2050 is TransLink’s draft new Regional Transportation Strategy, the blueprint for the next 30 years. As part of TransLink’s largest-ever public engagement, and as a shared strategy, Transport 2050 is being developed in partnership with municipalities, Metro Vancouver, the Province, and Indigenous Nations. TransLink has released the Transport 2050 draft strategy for public input between Oct. 12 and 29. Transport 2050 proposes the vision, goals, and strategies for the future regional transportation system.

This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape the future of how we move and live, and respond to opportunities and challenges, such as affordability, congestion, climate change. TransLink and Metro Vancouver are working together on these strategies to ensure that long-term transit investment and development go hand-in-hand, so that we can rise to the challenge of affordability in a growing region. Hear about the highlights of these two updated strategies, and pose your questions directly to Metro Vancouver Regional Planning as well as TransLink team members.   

Please join us for this session from the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen peoples.

BIOS

Erin Rennie, RPP, MCIP
Erin Rennie is a Senior Planner at Metro Vancouver working with the Growth Management and Transportation team within the Regional Planning and Housing Services Department. She is also the Metro 2050 Project Manager, working with a cross-sectional team of planners to update the regional growth strategy for Metro Vancouver. Her policy portfolio includes Urban Centres, Complete Communities, Transit-Oriented Development, Health and the Built Environment, and Social Equity in Planning. She graduated from UBC with a Masters of Community and Regional Planning in 2015.

James Stiver, RPP, MCIP
James Stiver is Metro Vancouver’s Manager of Growth Management and Transportation within the Regional Planning and Housing Services Department. He has been a planner and city builder for over 25 years in public and private practice, and holds degrees in Urban and Regional Planning and Local Economic Development. He is primarily responsible for the implementation and administration of Metro 2040, the regional growth strategy, as well as policy research and data analytics in the areas of transportation, housing, industrial lands, social equity, environmental and climate resilience, and building complete communities.

Eve Hou, RPP, MCIP
Eve Hou is manager of policy development at TransLink. Her team is responsible for corporate policy initiatives, ranging from transit fares to washroom policy, as well as regional policy work, including contributing to the development of Transport 2050 – the region’s 30 year strategy for transportation. Eve brings to Transport 2050 her past experience as a project manager on TransLink’s New Mobility team and over a decade of experience as a climate change planner with Metro Vancouver. Eve is a registered professional planner. She holds a Master’s degree in Planning and a Bachelor’s’ degree in Economics, both from UBC. She lives North Vancouver with her husband and two kids.

Matt Craig, RPP MCIP – Manager, TransLink System Planning. (He/Him/His)
Matt has been a transportation planner for over 15 years, and is currently Manager of TransLink’s multimodal Transportation & Land Use Planning team. He’s been involved in nearly all aspects of our field, from detailed transit service planning to regional strategy development. Matt lives in a transit-oriented community in Vancouver with his wife, two kids, and pandemic puppy.

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Location:

Zoom webinar

Date/Time Information:

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

9:30 - 11:00 AM

Fees/Admission:

Member Price $20 + GST
Non-Member Price $30 + GST

EVENT RECORDING:
A link to the recorded webinar will be available to those who have registered. The recording will be available for viewing 24 hours after the webinar airs, and can be watched on-demand for 72 hours.

CANCELLATION POLICY:
72 hours' notice required.
Substitutions allowed.

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