I delivered the 2024 State of the City address at a Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce dinner at the end of June. I posted a quick write-up of the presentation portion of the address, which you can read in a previous post. At a high level, the presentation titled “Our City, Our Future” focused on how we are partnering to deliver new and maintain existing affordable housing, what we are doing to build a safer community, including the work we’ve done in the last year in preparation for the Citizens’ Assembly on Community Safety, what SkyTrain means for Langley City, redevelopment, and our new performance evaluation and accountability dashboard.
The full video of the address is now online, including the presentation and the fireside chat with Greater Langley Chamber of Commerce CEO Cory Redekop.
During the fireside chat, we discussed how the BC Assessment Authority’s property valuation makes for inconsistent commercial property tax rates in the City. We also touch on the importance of investing in infrastructure such as roads, water pipes, sewer lines, and parks to support the business community and how these investments get customers to shops and attract workers to the community. We talked about the work Langley City is doing around increasing community safety, including looking into ways to implement upstream solutions. We also chatted about regional service integration, what SkyTrain means for our Downtown, the Fraser Highway One-Way Renewal Project, and the Township’s proposed de-integration of our shared Langley RCMP detachment.
Below is the video of the 2024 State of the City address.
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