ARCH436 SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

RESILIENT CITY

Vancouver
Tanya
Yathaarth
Aakarsh
Nisant
 CONTENTS

01. About
02. Geography
03. Climate
04. Demographics
05. Housing
06. Jobs
07. Transit
08. Greenway
09. Resilient Vancouver
10. Existing Strategies
11. Development phases
12. Global Learning
13. Stress
14. Shocks
 ABOUT

Vancouver is among the world's most

beautiful cities. It's also often considered
one of the most livable, thanks to its
well-balanced mix of modern urban features
and magnificent natural surroundings. The
city acts as a gateway to Canada's great
outdoors, be it along the Pacific Coast or up
in the Pacific Ranges.
Before we talk about the future, we need to understand where we are today.
 GEOGRAPHY
Located on the Burrard Peninsula, Vancouver
lies between Burrard Inlet to the north and the
Fraser River to the south. The Strait of Georgia,
to the west, is shielded from the Pacific Ocean
by Vancouver Island. The city has an area of 114
km2 (44 sq mi), including both flat and hilly
ground.
Vancouver has one of the largest urban parks in
North America, Stanley Park, which covers
404.9 ha (1,001 acres).The North Shore
Mountains dominate the cityscape, and on a
clear day, scenic vistas include the
snow-capped volcano Mount Baker in the state
of Washington to the southeast, Vancouver
Island across the Strait of Georgia to the west
and southwest, and Bowen Island to the
northwest.
 CLIMATE
Vancouver is one of Canada's warmest cities in
the winter. Vancouver's climate is temperate by
Canadian standards and is classified as
oceanic, that borders on a warm-summer
Mediterranean climate.
While during summer months the inland
temperatures are significantly higher,
Vancouver has the coolest summer average
high of all major Canadian metropolitan areas.
The summer months are typically dry, with an
average of only one in five days during July and
August receiving precipitation.
Vancouver is also one of the wettest Canadian
cities. Annual precipitation averages 1,189 mm.
The daily maximum averages 22 °C in July and
August, with highs rarely reaching 30 °C.
DEMOGRAPHICS
Vancouver Is One of the Most Diverse Cities in
the World
52% VISIBLE MINORITY
Visible minority groups make up the majority of
the city. The most common visible minority
population groups are Chinese, South Asian
and Filipino.
42% IMMIGRANT POPULATION
The most common places of birth for immigrants
in Vancouver are China, the Philippines and
Hong Kong.
46% SPEAK A NON-ENGLISH MOTHER TONGUE
Today, the most common non-English mother
tongue languages are Cantonese, Mandarin
and Tagalog.
 POPULATION

A Growing City and Region

Vancouver is the centre of a rapidly growing
region — a region that is expected to grow to
about 830,000 people and add more than
345,000 new jobs by 2040. Over the last ten
years, this growth has translated into an
additional 5,500 or so people per year calling
Vancouver home.
 HOUSING

Detached homes make up 15 per cent of

dwelling units in the city and properties with
detached homes make up 52 per cent of the
city’s land area. In Vancouver, properties with
detached homes can have a secondary suite
and a laneway house.
 JOBS
THERE ARE 377,000 JOBS IN VANCOUVER
The largest sectors in Vancouver are:
professional, scientific and technical services;
healthcare and social assistance;
accommodation and food services; and retail.

Distribution of Jobs (2016)

Vancouver has jobs in a wide variety of sectors.
No single sector accounts for more than 16 per
cent of total jobs.
Over the past four years, net asking rents have
increased for office space, retail space and
industrial space.
 TRANSIT

Vancouver's public transportation is both

efficient and convenient. The Translink system
includes buses, the SeaBus ferry and the
SkyTrain (light rail), all of which are ecologically
friendly, reliable and inexpensive.
Access to Jobs by Transit Is
High Near Rapid Transit
Stations

Many people rely on transit to get to their jobs.

You may live close to a bus stop or a SkyTrain
Station; however, that does not necessarily
mean that you can get to as many jobs as
everybody else. This map shows the number of
jobs that can be reached by transit within 40
minutes.
Access to jobs within a 40-minute transit
journey is highest in the Downtown core and
some parts of East Vancouver, especially near
rapid transit stations and high-service bus
corridors that connect the stations.
 GREENWAY

Greenways in Vancouver are linear public

corridors for pedestrians and cyclists that
connect parks.
City greenways can be on streets and or on
trails, and they provide a safe, comfortable and
intuitive connection to destinations.
Neighbourhood greenways are small scale,
local connections for pedestrians and cyclists
that link parks, natural areas, historic sites,
amenities and commercial streets.
Also provide opportunities for urban recreation.
They encourage people of all ages and abilities
to travel by foot and bike, and they enhance the
experience of nature and city life.
 RESILIENT
VANCOUVER

From disasters to economic inequity,

cities around the world are tackling the
most pressing issues of our time.
Through holistic initiatives supporting
prepared neighbourhoods, a
collaborative government and safe and
adaptive buildings and infrastructure,
this multi-year strategy builds our
collective capacity to prepare for, recover
from and thrive in the face of changes
and challenges.
 COMMITMENT
Resilience
Resilience refers to our ability to anticipate,
manage and recover from risks, such as
earthquakes, aging infrastructure or a
pandemic. Truly advancing resilience means
Equity elevating and supporting people within our
The City of Vancouver is committed to community who are most at risk. Recovery is an
supporting equity and inclusion in communities, essential step in resilience planning. Recovery
policies, planning and all of our activities. means moving beyond a focus on response and
Today, many people have opportunities to survival in the face of shocks and stresses. It
thrive, while others struggle to meet basic needs means planning and designing physical and
and have their right respected. The Vancouver social systems and structures that are flexible,
Plan, and the engagement to create the plan, adaptive, and redundant enough to bounce
provides opportunities to create a city for all back when they experience shocks. It also
and advance equity and inclusion. means intentionally planning to regenerate and
‘build back better’ when crises occur.
 BACKBONE OF
RESILIENT VANCOUVER

Resilient Vancouver is not a standalone strategy

Resilient Vancouver is a citywide strategy that — it has emerged from a history of strategic
takes a comprehensive approach to addressing initiatives that have advanced social,
shocks, such as earthquakes, and stresses, environmental and economic sustainability and
such as aging infrastructure. resilience, and it supports and will be
embedded through a number of forthcoming
The strategy builds our capacity to anticipate, initiatives. Resilient Vancouver knits together
manage, and recover from our city’s biggest and celebrates the vital foundations of
risks, and aligns work to help us survive, adapt, resilience articulated through these strategies,
and thrive in the face of our greatest challenges. and addresses critical gaps required to sustain
our community in a rapidly changing future. The
Resilient Vancouver is the result of a two-year highlighted strategies represent recent and
process involving more than 2,500 stakeholders. forthcoming policy that contributes to an
equitable, sustainable and resilient future.
 EXISTING
STRATEGIES

Reconciliation Framework Housing Vancouver

Established in 2014, the City of Vancouver Launched in 2017, Housing Vancouver is the
adopted a Reconciliation Framework that works City’s 10-year strategy to reduce Vancouver’s
towards three long-term goals: strengthening housing affordability gap and to provide a
local First Nations and Urban Indigenous strong foundation for the city’s future. Together
relations; promoting Indigenous arts, culture, with the Vancouver Affordable Housing Fund,
awareness and understanding; and this plan will drive many changes across the city
incorporating First Nations and Urban to ensure that our diverse communities can
Indigenous perspectives for more effective City continue to grow.
services.
 EXISTING
STRATEGIES

Earthquake Preparedness Strategy Climate Adaptation Strategy

In 2013, Vancouver developed an Earthquake Created in 2012 and updated in 2018, the
Preparedness Strategy to prepare for and Climate Adaptation Strategy is Vancouver’s
respond to earthquakes in Vancouver. This was Climate Resilience framework and complements
the City’s first major strategy to address this the Resilient Vancouver Strategy. The Climate
hazard and identified 56 actions across three Adaptation Strategy includes five goal areas
categories: volunteers and community, critical with priority and supporting actions aimed at
services and buildings. A key need identified minimizing climate change impacts and
through this work was support for developing a enhancing Vancouver’s capacity to withstand
comprehensive assessment of seismic risk in impacts from rising temperatures, more intense
Vancouver. and frequent rainfall and sea level rise.
 EXISTING
STRATEGIES

Transportation 2040 Greenest City 2020

Transportation 2040 is a long-term strategic The Greenest City Action Plan (GCAP) is the
plan for the city that will help guide resilient overarching environmental sustainability
transportation and land use decisions and framework for the City of Vancouver. This
public investments for the years ahead. It globally recognized environmental policy
supports travel modes that use renewable fuels articulates a vision, targets, key actions and
and that move more people with less indicators for monitoring how Vancouver’s
pollution—like electric cars, transit, and active environmental performance changes over time.
transportation modes such as walking and It was first adopted in 2011 with targets to 2020.
cycling. This includes supporting low-impact In 2019, Council directed staff to develop the
local goods movement and delivery services. next iteration of this strategy, integrating
lessons from the past and addressing emerging
environmental issues.
 OUR STRATEGY
From the beginning, the City of Vancouver set
out to develop a resilience strategy through a
process that would:

Address critical gaps and avoid duplication by

dedicating resources and convening partners
around issues and threats not already being
addressed, or where new efforts are required.

Amplify existing efforts by highlighting and

celebrating work undertaken across our
community

Leverage partnerships through reciprocal

collaboration with other levels of governments
and civic and community partners working
towards resilience goals

Embed resilience by developing support tools

and processes for City departments and
community organizations.
Resilient Vancouver was developed through a multi-phase process supported by local and global partners,
and in collaboration with all City departments.

PHASE 1 PHASE 2 PHASE 3

Preliminary Resilience Engagement, Research and Implementation and Integration
Assessment (2017–18) Action (2018–19) (2019–21)

Engaged more than 2,500 Convened multi-stakeholder Establish indicators and targets
diverse stakeholders in dialogue working groups and partners for resilience and risk reduction
and research
Leveraged $2 million for priority Provide tools for City staff to
Inventoried city-wide resilience research on earthquakes, integrate resilience into
work and assessed gaps infrastructure, neighbourhoods planning and operations
and buildings
Identified areas of opportunity Leverage partnerships to
and research questions for Refined and developed guiding amplify and learn community-led
Phase 2 principles, objectives and initiatives
actions for strategy
Embed resilience through the
City-wide Plan and related
strategic initiatives
 STRESSES

Social and Economic Stresses

Similarly, many trends we face, such as an
Social and economic stresses result in aging population, are not inherently negative,
inequities that undermine groups and but they represent changes that need to be
individuals’ ability to manage and benefit from considered.
change, and to withstand and recover from
shocks. Understanding the social and economic
stresses and trends that impact our community
In Vancouver, we see this in the way that our on a daily basis is critical to creating solutions
growing economy excludes many from the that will build real resilience for our residents
Indigenous and Black communities, and in the and our systems, regardless of if and when
way that snowstorms are inconvenient for some, disaster strikes.
but life threatening for others.
 STRESSES

Affordability
Vancouver is one of the least affordable cities in
North America; unaffordable commercial and
residential properties, coupled with low average
incomes and rising costs of food and services,
fuel the affordability crisis. Employers find it
challenging to attract and retain talent, while
young families are moving away from the city.

Aging Population
Projections indicate a 92 per cent increase in
the number of people aged 65 and older by
2041, and a 10 per cent increase in people aged
0–64. While many seniors are living longer,
healthier lives, the number of seniors
experiencing poverty and housing insecurity is
rising, putting new demands on social and
government services.
 STRESSES

Debt and Low Wages

Vancouverites carry more debt than anywhere
else in Canada, and are vulnerable to even
small economic changes. In 2015, Vancouver’s
median income was $65,327, compared to a
Canadian median income of $70,336. There is a
$7,000 difference in median salary between
men and women.
 STRESSES

Homelessness Gender Inequity

The 2018 homeless count identified 2,181 The City’s Women’s Equity Strategy found that
homeless people in Vancouver. Indigenous only 57 per cent of women feel safe walking in
people are vastly overrepresented in these their neighbourhoods after dark compared to 75
numbers. In 2018 and 2019, modular housing percent of men, and 80 percent of reported
has been constructed as a temporary response intimate partner violence is against women.
to this crisis. In the event of a major earthquake, There is an 11.8 percent employment gap
more than 150,000 people would be between women and men.
immediately homeless.
Social Isolation
Poverty A recent survey found that 50 percent of
More than one in five children in Metro Vancouverites are unable to identify four people
Vancouver live in poverty, including more than they could confide in, and only 54 per cent
40 per cent of children in single-parent homes. reported a strong sense of community. Almost
Nearly half of residents in Vancouver do not 40 per cent of households in Vancouver consist
earn a living wage, while 70 per cent of people of a single person. In a disaster, social isolation
in the Downtown Eastside are considered low creates barriers to neighbours caring for one
income. another
 STRESSES
Food System Resilience
Water System and Resources A 2009 report identified that Vancouver’s supply
By 2050, a 58 per cent decline in snow pack will of produce would last 72 hours at any given
impact Vancouver’s drinking water reservoirs, time. Many Indigenous and local food sources
while more intense rainstorms will increase risk have declined through development, pollution
of flooding. Currently 27 per cent of water and invasive species, and are under continued
system infrastructure is in poor or very poor pressure from climate change. Shocks like
condition. The City regularly upgrades water earthquakes threaten access to food resources.
pipes to higher seismic standards during repair Many food suppliers, community kitchens,
and road work, but this does not guarantee the businesses and non-profits lack business
resilience of water systems on private property. continuity and emergency plans.

Climate Change Regional Infrastructure and Supply Chains

Canada is warming at a rate faster than the rest Regionally, many highways, rail lines, pipelines
of the world. A changing climate is driving and digital networks that serve Vancouver have
declining biodiversity, threats to human health been constructed in flood plains and seismic
and global conflict and migration; it is also zones. They are vulnerable to extreme weather,
driving new and transformative policy and landslides, avalanches and accidents.
technology — all of which will influence Disruptions to supply chains limit access to
Vancouver’s resilient future. food, water, energy and supplies for
Vancouverites.
 RESILIENCE
Temporary Modular Housing

Vancouver is experiencing a housing Developing an Equity Framework

affordability and homelessness crisis. In
addition to long-term planning, the City of In Vancouver, continued efforts to create a more
Vancouver is constructing temporary modular equitable and just society not only improve the
housing to provide immediate relief for day-to-day lives of our residents, they are
hundreds of people living without a home. essential for building the capacities of
individuals, cities, organizations and
Since 2017, 600 units have been opened, and governments to manage and recover from
more are planned. Residents of temporary shocks.
modular housing are offered support, such as
life skills training as well as health and social From a resilience perspective, this means
services. They are provided two meals a day understanding the way that differences in
and opportunities to engage through gender, age, race, culture, class, language and
community groups, volunteer work and social ability to combine and intersect with social and
events. institutional systems to influence a person’s
lived experience and, in turn, the way they
Safe housing provides a platform for people to experience and recover from shocks.
build healthy lives, and also reduces exposure
to shocks, like extreme weather
 RESILIENCE
Working with Partners to Keep Transportation
Networks Open
Doing Our Part to Prevent Climate Breakdown
The City of Vancouver’s transportation network
includes more than 40 bridges. While priority
In 2019, Vancouver City Council directed staff to
bridges are being upgraded, inspecting all
develop new targets to confront the climate
bridges post-disaster is important to enable the
emergency, and join cities around the world
safe flow of people and emergency supplies
committed to doing their part to limit global
post-disaster. To accelerate this process,
warming to 1.5 C.
Vancouver’s Engineering Department has
worked in partnership with local engineering
The result is an ambitious plan that will
firms to develop leading-edge processes to
transform the urban design of our city and
deploy and inspect priority bridges in the
regenerate natural ecosystems. By integrating
aftermath of an earthquake. Priority bridges
equity and resilience into this work, Vancouver
have been documented, including the
is in a position to help lead that change in way
development of a unique assessment process
that benefits all people.
for non-technical staff to facilitate expedited
visual assessment to determine if a bridge
should remain open or be closed.
 SHOCKS

Vancouver experiences a range of shocks and

hazards every year, and we have strong
emergency plans in place capable of managing
the majority of these cases without outside
support. However, as the frequency of events
increases, and as the growth of our city means
more people are exposed, we must build risk
reduction and resilience into future planning.
 SHOCKS

Climate and Geo-Physical Shocks

Earthquakes
Vancouver is at risk from multiple types of
earthquakes. Hundreds of small earthquakes
occur in our region every year, and while most
are not felt, a major earthquake is inevitable in
our future.
 SHOCKS

Forest Fires / Air Quality

2017 and 2018 were the worst fire seasons
recorded in B.C. In 2017 alone, 1.2 million
hectares of land burned. In the future the
number of climate refugees will increase and air
quality will worsen for Vancouverites as a result
of regional fires, and the risk of more localized
forest fires will increase.
 SHOCKS

Coastal and Riverine Flooding

The Greater Vancouver region is at significant
risk of flooding from the Fraser River and from
coastal storm surge events that threaten
important regional infrastructure and supply
chains. It has been estimated that worst-case
coastal flooding today will cost $19 billion, with
riverine flooding costing $22 billion.
 SHOCKS

Extreme Weather and Temperatures

By 2050, hot days will be 4 C hotter and heat
waves more frequent; rainfall event intensity will
increase 33–63 per cent. Extreme heat and cold
are already impacting Vancouverites.
 SHOCKS

Infrastructure Failure and Disruption

Infrastructure failures and disruptions have
Technological and Health Shocks
broad consequences for interdependent
systems. Cyber-attacks, gas-line failures, power
Oil Spills
outages, and transit shut-downs pose unique
An increase in shipping also increases the
and complex risks to our economy, people and
likelihood of marine and pipeline oil spills. A
critical systems.
worst-case marine oil spill and the resulting
clean-up operations may cost the local economy
Residential Fires
over $1 billion, and could expose a significant
Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services responds
number of people to toxic fumes. A 2014 study
to hundreds of fires annually. Each year 20 to 30
indicated that Vancouver’s $41 billion brand
of these require an Emergency Social Services
value could experiences losses of $4 billion due
(ESS) response to provide basic needs support
to a major oil spill.
to evacuees with no alternative shelter or
support networks.
 SHOCKS

Hazardous Materials
Hazardous materials move regularly through Public Health Emergencies — Opioid Crisis
Vancouver via road, river, sea and rail and are The ongoing opioid emergency is one example
concentrated around ports and industrial lands. of a public health emergency. A poisoned opioid
Hazardous materials incidents contaminate the supply has resulted in thousands of lives lost
soil, air and water, threatening human and and millions of dollars re-directed towards
ecological health. For example, in 2015 a response. Exacerbated by stigma, a shock
container fire spread toxic smoke across parts occurs every time a new poisoned supply is
of East Vancouver for 2 days before being released in Vancouver.
extinguished.
 RESILIENCE
VanSlam 2019
The Vancouver Emergency Management
Agency, oversees a comprehensive staff
training and exercise program. In 2019,
Adapting to Sea Level Rise and Coastal Vancouver held Exercise VanSlam, a full-scale
Flooding training exercise involving nearly 700
In 2014, the City of Vancouver completed a participants active at 30 sites, to test the City’s
Coastal Flood Risk Assessment and set new response and communications plans.
flood construction levels.
The exercise included activation of the Urban
Today, work is ongoing to identify mitigation Search and Rescue Team, Disaster Staging
options to protect people and property. This Areas, Emergency Social Services and
leading-edge work sets a strong foundation for Emergency and Departmental Operations
the continued integration of resilience Centres.
objectives and hazard analysis into city
planning and policy. Although the city has robust plans in place, the
damage from an earthquake means that many
locations and people will remain inaccessible,
and mitigation must remain a key priority to
reduce risk.
 RESILIENCE
OBJECTIVES & ACTIONS
Our strategy focuses on building knowledge
and capacity where gaps exist, including
related to earthquake and disaster resilience,
and in changing the way we plan and operate
to better anticipate and prepare for changing
future conditions.

This strategy is built on the premise that shocks

and disasters are inevitable in our complex
world, and that actions to reduce risk must also
contribute to day-today resilience.

The Resilient Vancouver strategy is structured

around three priorities.

Each priority area contains focused objectives

and specific actions. These build on and
complement existing work by the City of
Vancouver, while also addressing significant
gaps and risks.
RESILIENT VANCOUVER STRATEGY OVERVIEW
 Related / Supporting
Objective Action Status
Initiatives

Priority 1: Thriving and Prepared Neighbourhoods

Promote open and ongoing dialogue

Healthy City Strategy,
about Vancouver’s past, present and Ongoing
Reconciliation Framework
future

Promote community leadership Vancouver Immigration

1.1 Cultivate community Scoping
opportunities for newcomers Partnership, Healthy City Strategy
connections, stewardship and
pride
Create Neighbourhood Resilience
Viva Vancouver, City Studio Not yet started
Labs

Identify and support participatory

Engaged City Task Force Ongoing
budgeting opportunities
 Objective Action Related / Supporting Initiatives Status

Priority 1: Thriving and Prepared Neighbourhoods

Launch and scale the Resilient

Greenest City, Earthquake
Neighbourhoods Program with a Scoping
Preparedness Strategy
toolkit and grants

1.2 Empower communities to

support each other during Support a community-led Downtown
Healthy City Strategy, Disaster
crises and recover from Eastside Neighbourhood Disaster
Support Hubs, Climate Adaptation Not yet started
disasters Response and Recovery planning
Strategy
process

Train and support staff at community Earthquake Preparedness

centres and libraries to participate in Strategy, Climate Adaptation Scoping
community disaster resilience Strategy
 Objective Action Related / Supporting Initiatives Status

Priority 1: Thriving and Prepared Neighbourhoods

Engage artists to explore and inspire

creative solutions to complex Creative City Strategy Planned
challenges

1.3 Transform the way Launch a digital tool to help the

Smart City, Climate Adaptation
communities understand risks public understand and prepare for
Strategy, Earthquake Ongoing
and prepare for local hazards earthquakes and climate change
Preparedness Strategy
impacts

Equity Framework, Engaged City,

Apply an intersectional lens to revise
Earthquake Preparedness
emergency and resilience education Planned
Strategy, Climate Adaptation
and engagement materials
Strategy
 Objective Action Related / Supporting Initiatives Status

Priority 1: Thriving and Prepared Neighbourhoods

Evaluate resilience of food assets Food Strategy, Social

and meal providers and services in Infrastructure Plan, Earthquake Planned
high-risk neighbourhoods Preparedness Strategy

1.4 Strengthen social and

Create a Capacity Building Action
cultural assets and services
Plan and Non-profit Partnering Healthy City Strategy Scoping
Framework

Leverage investments in civic assets

and infrastructure to create local Healthy City Strategy Ongoing
economic opportunities
 Objective Action Related / Supporting Initiatives Status

Priority 2: Proactive and Collaborative City

Elevate and incorporate Indigenous

Reconciliation Framework, Equity
knowledge and culture through Ongoing
Framework
resilience work

2.1: Elevate the voices of

Leverage resilience initiatives to
underrepresented groups to
strengthen civic literacy and access Engaged City Ongoing
improve resilience outcomes
for underrepresented groups

Deepen our understanding of the

experiences of diverse women and Women’s Equity Strategy, Equity
Planned
youth regarding climate change and Framework
disasters
 Objective Action Related / Supporting Initiatives Status

Priority 2: Proactive and Collaborative City

Implement state-of-the-art hazard

City-wide Plan, Climate
modelling tools to reduce risk through Planned
Adaptation Strategy
land use, zoning and urban design

2.2 Shape a city that can

adapt to changes and turn
Enable transformative city planning City-wide Plan, Employment Lands
challenges into opportunities
through strategic foresight and Study, Equity Framework, Healthy Scoping
scenario planning City Strategy, Greenest City

Develop a dynamic building lifecycle City-wide Plan, green buildings,

Not yet started
database affordability and rental programs

City-wide Plan, Equity Framework,

Create and test a Resilient
Climate Adaptation Strategy, Ongoing
Neighbourhoods Design Framework
Renewable City
 Objective Action Related / Supporting Initiatives Status

Priority 2: Proactive and Collaborative City

Align city governance, resources and

Climate Adaptation Strategy,
policy related to climate and
Earthquake Preparedness Scoping
earthquake mitigation, adaptation
Strategy, Risk Management
and risk reduction
2.3: Strengthen organizational
capacity to manage risk and
Connect emergency management Climate Adaptation Strategy,
recover from shocks and
and business continuity planning Earthquake Preparedness Not yet started
stresses
processes Strategy, Risk Management

City-wide Plan, Capital and

Evaluate and embed resilience into
Operational Planning, Climate Scoping
financial planning
Adaptation Strategy

Supporting Initiatives: Earthquake

Align local action with the United Preparedness, City Wide Plan,
Nations Sendai Framework for Climate Adaptation, Risk Scoping
Disaster Risk Reduction Management, Green
Infrastructure
 Objective Action Related / Supporting Initiatives Status

Priority 2: Proactive and Collaborative City

Create a regulatory framework for City-wide Plan, Equity Framework,

equitable post-disaster Earthquake Preparedness Not yet started
redevelopment in Vancouver Strategy

2.4 Advance holistic,

collaborative disaster risk Support convening of a Business Small Business Support,
Not yet started
reduction and recovery Recovery Roundtable Vancouver Economic Commission
planning

Earthquake Preparedness
Establish targets for recovery and Strategy, City-wide Plan, Asset
risk reduction through the Pathways Management, Healthy City Planned
to Disaster Risk Reduction Project Strategy, Climate Adaptation
Strategy
 Objective Action Related / Supporting Initiatives Status

Priority 3: Safe and Adaptive Buildings and Infrastructure

Advance performance-based design

Earthquake Preparedness
and recovery-based code Scoping
Strategy
requirements for critical buildings

3.1: Improve building

performance to protect lives,
Green Buildings, Housing
decrease displacement and Formalize a cross-departmental
Vancouver, Climate Adaptation Scoping
accelerate recovery following Resilient Buildings governance model
Strategy
earthquakes

Complete seismic risk assessment

and engage stakeholders to identify Earthquake Preparedness
Ongoing
risk reduction and policy options for Strategy
existing buildings
 Objective Action Related / Supporting Initiatives Status

Priority 3: Safe and Adaptive Buildings and Infrastructure

Explore options to accelerate climate

and seismic upgrades or Facilities Seismic Program,
redevelopment of civic buildings to Earthquake Preparedness Ongoing
enhance community recovery Strategy
capacity
3.2: Plan, design and upgrade
civic facilities to serve the
current and future needs of Integrate updated climate and Earthquake Preparedness
our diverse communities and seismic priority projects into the Strategy, Climate Adaptation Scoping
ever-changing environmental capital plan process Strategy
conditions
Continue civic infrastructure
resilience and interdependency Risk Management, Asset
Ongoing
assessments with Public Safety Management, Facilities Planning
Canada
 Related / Supporting
Objective Action Status
Initiatives

Priority 3: Safe and Adaptive Buildings and Infrastructure

Asset Management, Risk

Develop a city-wide framework for Management, Climate
critical infrastructure management Adaptation Strategy, Earthquake Scoping
and decision-making Preparedness Strategy, IT
Resilience

Refine and test post-disaster Earthquake Preparedness

assessment protocols for Strategy, Climate Adaptation Scoping
3.3: Anticipate threats and
infrastructure and buildings Strategy, Asset Management
mitigate and minimize
disruption to civic
Asset Management, Risk
infrastructure and critical
Establish risk assessment Management, Large Site Policy,
services.
guidelines and recovery targets for Climate Adaptation Strategy, Not yet started
critical infrastructure Earthquake Preparedness
Strategy

Climate Adaptation Strategy,

Map and design a disaster resilient Capital Planning, Asset
Not yet started
lifelines network Management, Earthquake
Preparedness Strategy
 Related / Supporting
Objective Action Status
Initiatives

Priority 3: Safe and Adaptive Buildings and Infrastructure

Convene private and public sector

experts to explore innovative Risk Management, Asset
Scoping
financing options for resilient Management, Capital Planning
infrastructure
3.4: Promote regional
collaboration to assess, Pilot a cascading impact
Climate Adaptation Strategy,
finance and fortify lifeline assessment process in partnership Complete
City-wide Plan
infrastructure and supply with the Port of Vancouver
chains
Support regional resilience efforts
by sharing seismic assessment
Earthquake Preparedness
processes, findings and tools with Planned
Strategy
regional stakeholders and planning
partners
THANK YOU