Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver promise to keep taxes down, continue shifting the tax burden from business for a final year and create a tech incubator, if re-elected.
Those are the key commitments in the slate’s just-released platform on business, jobs and economic development.
Vision is also committing to:
- convene a mayor’s investment forum to attract global investors;
- offer major employers tax incentives to help build new offices that create jobs in town;
- streamline the single family home permit processes and establish a standard turnaround time for issuing permits;
- pursue sister-city relationships with a goal of enhancing economic opportunities; •expand efforts to revitalize Chinatown, including attracting new businesses, protecting the area’s historic features, and creating more affordable housing; and
- implement the Vancouver Economic Commission’s new action strategy. (See “Vancouver Economic Commission pushing for tech incubator” – BIV Business Today, September 30.)
See next week’s edition of Business in Vancouver for an assessment of how the current administration’s policy has affected Vancouver’s business competitiveness since the 2008 election.
Jenny Wagler
@JennyWagler_BIV