From Metro Vancouver:
The next Future of the Region Sustainability Dialogues: “Paying For Our Cities”
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VANCOUVER – April 9 / SURREY – April 10
NORTH VANCOUVER – April 16 / COQUITLAM – April 17
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Services that keep people healthy, safe and active every day such as transit systems, parks, playgrounds, clean drinking water, recycling services, garbage disposal and waste reduction are costly. They need infrastructure that must be maintained, renewed and replaced over time.
But who pays and how? Are increases in property taxes, user fees or government transfers in the form of grants the answer, and if so, what is the role of different levels of government in easing the burden on citizens? Are there other roles to be played by businesses? What might be the full range of financing and design strategies that can keep our region healthy, safe, livable and sustainable?
VANCOUVER
April 9, 2013
11:30AM to 2:00PM / (lunch from 11:30AM – 12:00PM)
Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue /580 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Register here.
Chuck Marohn just posted three short videos that will provide an excellent background to this discussion: http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2013/3/25/three-core-understandings.html