Our green spaces and facilities keep us healthy and ensure our wellbeing by providing important venues for learning new skills, being outside, connecting with friends and neighbours, vibrant community cultural events, and playing sport.

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While Vancouver has more park space today than it did 25 years ago, the significant increase in our population and the city’s increasing density has put greater pressure on the parks’ system.

This is especially true in neighbourhoods like Vancouver’s downtown, Mt Pleasant, False Creek, and the Cambie corridor where the majority of new residents are living in condos with little or no access to private outdoor space or to nature.

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Vancouver is a city of diverse neighbourhoods with very different needs, including the need for parks and recreation facilities. Add to this, not all neighbourhoods of the city have equal access when it comes to the accessibility of green spaces.

That’s why the Park Board is working to ensure the equitable delivery of our limited resources.

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At the Park Board, there is a limit to our budget and resources, and that affects our ability to meet all of the public demand for amenities and services. This sometimes means having to say no to exciting new opportunities.

By coordinating with and enabling our hardworking partner organizations, we can share the planning, funding and delivery of many aspects of the parks’ system, allowing the Park Board to focus on its crucial core responsibilities.

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Our rapidly changing climate can already be felt in Vancouver, with warmer, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers. These changes will have numerous implications for people, parks, and infrastructure.

So how do we prepare for the difficult road ahead? At the Park Board, we have already begun to protect our population and our green spaces, both for today and the decades ahead.

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The Park Board has a history of big ideas, none more influential than our world-renowned 22-km seawall. But for many areas of the city access to the waterfront is very limited.

Along the Fraser River, shoreline access is restricted and on the east side the Port of Vancouver occupies much of the waterfront.

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Although Vancouver is surrounded by wild spaces, the city itself has very few of them. You’ve told us that you want more access in the city to nature, including the opportunity to watch birds, see salmon spawn, or just admire majestic trees.

The Park Board is working to restore the city’s environmental integrity by reintroducing wild spaces, monitoring the health of ecosystems, rehabilitating our shorelines, and re-establishing our tree canopy.

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A core value of the Park Board is the desire to create welcoming parks and recreation services for all.

That’s why we are committed to improving the safety and inclusiveness of our spaces through programming, education, activities, events, and enhanced park design.

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The City of Vancouver was founded on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and those Nations have endured decades of unjust treatment at the hands of the colonizers.

At the Park Board, we are committed to:

• Hard work of truth telling
• Acknowledgment that First Nations are integral rights holders in the future of public parks and lands
• Important process of reconciliation with the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations
• Working towards a relationship built on equality and reciprocity

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Today, Vancouver’s parks are at a major crossroads. Many of our green spaces were created and their facilities built nearly half a century ago. Now they’re in need of significant repair.

At the Park Board, we’re looking to secure funding dedicated to the ongoing maintenance of our green spaces, and the renewal and replacement of our aging recreation facilities.

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