Create a Made in Victoria Economic Strategy: Partner with local business groups to build a practical plan that brings new investment to our downtown core, which extends across all neighbourhood villages. This will include identifying permitting delays, tracking vacant storefronts, updating zoning rules, and speeding up business licensing so new businesses can open faster.

Deliver a Victoria First Retail Strategy: Work directly with business groups and local business owners to bring a good mix of independent stores to the downtown core by identifying missing retail opportunities. Grants will be established or expanded to help new local business owners get started, assist with security and storefront upgrades, and encourage residents and visitors to shop local year-round.

Repurpose Vacant Downtown Office Space: Convene local business organizations, property owners, and the provincial government to turn underutilized commercial space into active downtown uses, such as housing, post-secondary hubs, tech incubators, or creative workspaces that drive daily foot traffic back into the downtown core.

Keep Downtown Clean and Safe: Victoria is a capital city and hosts the provincial legislature, and our downtown core must reflect the highest standard of cleanliness and safety. Expanding the award-winning OUR DWTN program will deliver daily street washing, litter removal, and dedicated cleaning crews to keep sidewalks spotless. Direct coordination between outreach teams and the City's Feet on the Street program will ensure downtown streets, alleys, and plazas remain safe, open, and welcoming for residents, workers, and visitors at all hours.

Activate Public Spaces with Arts, Culture, and Events: Convene local artists, performers, and community groups to bring regular live music, markets, and cultural events to downtown plazas and public spaces. Speeding up event permits and offering simple grants for local festivals, pop-up events, and stage equipment will make it easy and affordable for local organizers to keep streets busy year-round.

Drive Foot Traffic to Local Shops: Run targeted marketing campaigns, seasonal shopping events, and local promotions that draw residents from every Victoria neighbourhood and across the region into downtown shops and restaurants. Coordinating parking discounts and promoting transit options during peak shopping seasons will make trips downtown easy and affordable for everyone.

Positive Transfer Program: Advance the City's Positive Transfer program, initiated by Councillor Loughton, which helps people who are ready to move out of supportive housing but cannot afford market rents, transition into independent living using light supports and rent supplements. Moving the roughly 100 individuals in this situation in Victoria will create a direct domino effect: freeing supportive housing beds for people in shelters, and opening shelter spaces for those on the street. This will help to reduce visible homelessness downtown. Councillor Loughton will keep advocating for provincial and federal partners to provide the rent supplements needed to scale this effort and keep the system moving.

Sober Recovery Housing: Push provincial health and housing authorities to build more dedicated sober recovery housing units to address the severe regional shortage of substance-free housing. The City-led Johnson Manor project, created with BC Housing and the Victoria Cool Aid Society, proved this demand when it received over 80 referrals in its first week and had to close intake due to long waitlists. Councillor Loughton will advocate for senior levels of government to fund and deliver more of this housing, ensuring people finishing treatment have a safe space to maintain their recovery. Dedicated sober recovery housing also gives people experiencing homelessness an incentive to enter treatment, knowing they will not be forced back onto the street or into supportive housing when their treatment program ends, which often leads to relapse, or in some cases, tragic overdose deaths. This is a crucial piece of the recovery continuum that is absent in our region. 

Establish Dedicated Daytime Spaces for Unsheltered Residents: Work with community partners and senior government levels to set up designated indoor and/or outdoor daytime spaces with washrooms, storage, and outreach services. Giving unsheltered people places to go during the day keeps sidewalks, doorways, and business fronts clear while connecting individuals directly with support workers.

Accelerate Approvals for Housing Providers: Municipalities do not build housing directly, but the City can move projects forward faster. Councillor Loughton will work with City staff to cut processing times and remove permit delays, using direct input gathered from housing providers during listening sessions she hosted this year, to get homes built faster.

Partner with BC Builds for Workforce Housing: Deliver housing built for Victoria's middle-income workforce, such as teachers, nurses, police officers, firefighters, and transit workers, by partnering with the provincial BC Builds program. Councillor Loughton will work to identify city land so Victoria can tap into provincial financing to build workforce rentals.

Strengthen Tenant Protections: Build on Victoria’s Tenant Protection Bylaw, which already mandates cash compensation, moving support, and the right to return to new developments. Strengthen these rules by requiring independent relocation coordinators for all displaced renters needing to secure non-market, rent-geared-to-income units so individuals, families, and seniors on fixed pensions can stay safely in their community.

Champion a Non-Profit Grocery Model: Push for a full-service, non-profit grocery store in Victoria that features local farmers, giving families and individuals access to affordable food that helps stretch their household budgets.

Strengthen Regional Food Security: Bring together community organizations, local agricultural producers, and food security leaders to build a stable food supply that lowers costs for residents.

Leverage Regional Leadership: Use dual roles as City Councillor and CRD Director to bring together decision-makers across all levels of government to clear hurdles and turn community grocery projects into reality.

Pressure the Province on Regional Policing: Advocate to the province to use its authority to combine local police forces across the region, building on the Victoria and Esquimalt partnership to share costs fairly.

Neighbouring Municipalities Pay Their Share: Use CRD board motions to require surrounding municipalities to help cover community safety costs for the downtown core that their residents use every day.

Advocate for Senior Government Funding: Push the provincial and federal governments for capital city funding to reimburse Victoria for the high costs of policing protests and regional events, while transferring mental health and addiction calls to provincially funded crisis teams.

Set Fair Targets for Every Municipality: Write a motion at the CRD to set specific goals for how many shelter beds and supportive housing units each of the 13 municipalities must host, creating the evidence needed to call on BC Housing to open services across the entire region using paramountcy if necessary. 

Support People in Their Home Communities: Advocate for provincial and federal  funding to establish health and social services in every CRD municipality, so individuals can receive care locally rather than being forced to seek services in Victoria.

Protect Vulnerable Residents in Their Own Communities: Work with CRD Board members to ensure unhoused people across the region can get life-saving shelter near their support systems during extreme heat and cold, rather than being forced to travel to Victoria during extreme weather.

Expand Sober Recovery Housing Region-Wide: Build on success stories like Johnson Manor, where demand far exceeds available spots, by using regional gap data to ask the Minister of Housing to require sober recovery housing in all 13 municipalities through their official housing targets.

Partner with Local Leaders on Recovery Housing: Work directly with CRD board members from every municipality to bring sober recovery housing to their communities, so residents can rebuild their lives closer to family, friends, and local support.

Require Affordable Housing Across Every Municipality: Ask the B.C. Housing Minister to use official housing targets to mandate below-market rental homes in all 13 local municipalities, ensuring suburban communities build their fair share of non-profit and supportive housing.

Expand Express Airport and Regional Transit: Urge BC Transit to expand direct airport routes so express service runs all day, not just early morning and late evening, while improving frequent connections to the ferry, suburbs, and western communities.

Fix Neighborhood Transit Connections: Bring in smaller, more frequent neighborhood buses that run straight to main transit lines, making public transit a fast, reliable choice for everyday trips.

Connect the Regional Bike and Trail Network: Join up local bike lanes and trails across municipal borders so people can reach parks and workplaces safely, while keeping main roads clear for emergency and delivery trucks.

• Victoria must represent its status as a capital city and the arts hub of Vancouver Island by expanding arts venues and supporting major events like Symphony SPLASH, Canada Day, Pride, and other community events that bring people together.
• Continue the expansion of community parks and improving shared public spaces to create more areas for people to connect.
• Increase grants for local artists and cultural infrastructure by working to secure funding from other levels of government and convene quarterly meetings to discuss the needs of the local arts community.

• Expand and sustain green space in the city to hit the 40% tree canopy coverage target by 2050 outlined in the Official Community Plan (OCP), while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting the creation of more urban parks and open spaces.
• Support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and increased energy efficiency in operations, buildings, and infrastructure, both at the City and across the CRD, while implementing urban heat island mitigation strategies and climate adaptation measures such as public misting stations and sun sails.
• Update and upgrade vital infrastructure, such as roadways, proactively to avoid larger costs due to delays, while maximizing opportunities for climate resilience through green energy solutions such as water retention, green roofs, electric vehicles, and solar lighting.

• Work for the people by listening and seeking community guidance and input to keep residents central to decision-making on Council and at the CRD.
• Maintain an open door policy that invites input from community members on current and emerging issues important to our region.
• Hold quarterly listening session events to invite community members and groups, hear their concerns, and seek guidance.

• Operate within budgets by putting fiscal responsibility at the forefront when considering major capital projects and expenditures.
• Advocate for responsible budgets that put tax dollars to work on what works best, and reallocate expenditures to maximize the effectiveness of the work required by the city.
• Ensure that expenditures, grants, and funding allocations are fair, equitable, and aligned with the findings of the City of Victoria's statistically valid Ipsos budget survey.

• Reconciliation is friendship and living cooperatively with the Indigenous people who have lived here for millennia, and opportunities must be created through meaningful engagement with local First Nations to guide a shared future together.
• Regularly connect with local First Nations leadership and Indigenous-led organizations to build stronger community connections, and engage meaningfully on planning, naming, access, sustainability, and keeping the Songhees and Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) Nations central to city planning and activities.
• Establishing a residential school monument in Victoria as outlined in TRC Call to Action #82.

• Work on Council and at the CRD for more effective, accessible, affordable, and efficient public transportation, which may include smaller neighborhood shuttle buses that connect to the main transit system.
• Sustain and maintain active and accessible transportation infrastructure and planning, while advocating for balanced solutions that ensure people can get around safely on foot, by bike and rolling, by transit, or by vehicle.
• Advocate for greater regionalization of transportation systems across municipalities to improve effectiveness and create greater access and connectivity throughout the region.