2023 Annual Report

Strategic Priority Goals • Facilitate expanded housing diversity and supply, to promote attainability. • Improve mobility with safe, sustainable and effective transportation options. • Develop infrastructure that positions the City to provide accessible and sustainable services while accommodating growth. Strategic Priority Goals • Provide a diversity of inclusive and accessible recreation opportunities. • Build and celebrate community pride, strengthening community connections to foster a sense of belonging. • Promote a vibrant arts and culture community. • Ensure the safety and enhance the well-being of residents. • Improve community engagement with the City. Strategic Priority Liveable Community Strategic Priority Engaged, Healthy Community

2023 Activities

2024 Goals

Public Safety • Completed a new Fire Protection Master Plan.

Public Safety • Add 16 firefighters to enhance emergency response, community safety and prevention services. • Add 12 RCMP officers and an additional Victim Services Case Worker. • Increase overnight security and RCMP foot patrols downtown. • Continue the required transition to a Maple Ridge RCMP detachment. • Develop a comprehensive community safety plan. Community Activation & Engagement • Provide a variety of opportunities for community participation in Maple Ridge’s 150th birthday, including mobile stage performances around the city. • Engage community in the 2024 BC Summer Games and seek to retain volunteers. • Conduct community engagement on new recreation facility. • Develop an Engagement Framework and tools. • Conduct a budget pilot project that allows citizens to allocate one-time funds through an open and transparent public participation process. • Introduce a pilot heritage grant program to conserve historic amenities. • Audit recreation facilities based on Rick Hansen accessibility guidelines. • Develop criteria for recreation funding assistance to increase participation. • Work with interested parties to initiate a museum needs assessment.

• Partnered with the RCMP and security contractor on Project Dovetail, which cut shoplifting in the downtown core in half from the previous year. • Opened a new 24/7 emergency shelter for youth. • Received $1.8 million in grant funding for programs to keep youth away from gangs and guns. Community Activation & Engagement • Added a new beach volleyball facility at Albion Sports complex in advance of the 2024 BC Summer Games. • Engaged the public and advanced designs of a new neighbourhood park at Pazarena Place, a multi-use pathway at Port Haney, and enhanced play area at Maple Ridge Park. • Initiated a feasibility study on a new recreation facility. • Supported an application to the Agricultural Land Commission for a fourth ice sheet at Planet Ice. • Prepared bylaws to conserve heritage resources. • Improved dog off-leash areas at Maple Ridge Park, Hammond, and Westview, and started planning for upgrades at Albion Fairgrounds. Diversity and Inclusion • Installed a new Pride rainbow crosswalk in the downtown. • Completed and named the new Tsuyuki Park recognizing Albion farming pioneers. • Added accessible and inclusive youth Try It Sports programs.

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