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Holly Back

Council · North Vancouver (City of)

Lynn Valley 45 yrs

About

I believe in accountability, transparency, and decisions with the long-term interests of our residents and businesses. Priorities: Traffic, Infrastructure, Small Businesses, Housing, Homelessness, Supporting Seniors .PUTTING PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS

Policy commitments

Buildings

We all want healthy, affordable, and comfortable homes. These policies will help to lower energy bills, cut pollution, and improve indoor air quality.

✓ Support electrification of new buildings. Supportive

✓ Implement a 'right to cool' bylaw to protect tenants during extreme heat events. Supportive

Ecosystems

The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat all rely on healthy ecosystems. Nature can also help protect our community from extreme weather by controlling floods, protecting shorelines, and cooling neighbourhoods. Access to nature improves the health and well-being of residents, and supports biodiversity.

✓ Expand and protect tree canopy, parks, and green infrastructure to cool neighbourhoods, clean air, and manage stormwater. Supportive

✓ Create connected urban greenways for people and wildlife. Supportive

Land Use

We envision vibrant, walkable communities that protect nature and improve food security.

✓ Build affordable homes near jobs, schools, shops, and transit. Supportive

✓ Upgrade critical infrastructure for heat, fire, flood, and storm resilience. Supportive

Transport

Connecting neighbourhoods through public transit and active transportation networks will cut pollution, improve public health, and make our communities more affordable (and fun!).

✓ Deliver reliable, frequent, affordable local transit. Supportive

✓ Advocate to improve regional public transit between communities. Supportive

✓ Expand EV charging infrastructure. Supportive

Zero Waste

Zero waste policies reduce pollution, keep waste out of landfills, build resilient local economies, and safeguard public health by shifting society away from a disposable culture toward a sustainable circular economy.

✓ Implement bylaws to eliminate waste from new buildings, renovation, and demolition projects and to use existing buildings as efficiently as possible. Supportive

✓ Supportive

~ Neutral

× Opposed

– No response

Climate action

How have you contributed to climate action in your community through advocacy, past work, advisory committees, volunteer work, and/or reducing your personal carbon footprint?

Reducing my personal foot print by when working, walking to work. I do volunteer work every week with people with dementia.

Questions for North Vancouver (City of)

Lonsdale Energy Company has often promised a carbon neutral pathway. What steps will you take to ensure this report is published in the next year?

I believe this report is published

Expensive renewable natural gas (RNG) use was introduced as a temporary solution for Lonsdale Energy Company to decarbonize, but is now a permanent part of LEC's energy mix. What steps will you take to eliminate RNG from LEC's energy mix?

What steps would you take to correct the taxes that residents must now pay due to Metro Vancouver's handling of the sewage treatment plant?

Council as a whole is working with the Provincial Government to reduce these payments. There is a huge unfairness to North Shore residents to pay for the mistakes of the huge over runs of the WWTP on the North Shore. Metro Vancouver has to held accountable.

What steps would you take to require retention of mature trees through land use planning or other tools.

I have voted several times to redesign projects as to save old growth trees

Should the tree bylaw apply to ALL sites, even if the sites are not being re-developed?

Yes

Campaign contributions

Public records from Elections BC — 55 contributions totalling $44,801.36.

2022 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS

19 contributions · $19,950.00

Contributor	Date	Amount	Office	Jurisdiction
HOLLY BACK	Aug 15, 2022	$1,250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
WALLY BERUKOFF	Sep 28, 2022	$1,250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
ZAHIR BHATIA	Oct 14, 2022	$1,200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
BYRON CHARD	Sep 12, 2022	$1,250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
DAVID CHARD	Aug 24, 2022	$1,250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
ZULFIKARALI DAHYA	May 16, 2022	$1,250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
WALTER ALBERT HICK	Oct 4, 2022	$1,000.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
IANI MAKRIS	Aug 29, 2022	$700.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
GARY MATHIESEN	Aug 22, 2022	$1,250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
FARZAD MAZAREI	Aug 2, 2022	$1,250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
SIMA MAZAREI	Aug 2, 2022	$1,250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
FARZAD MAZAREI	Dec 31, 2021	$1,200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
SIMA MAZAREI	Dec 31, 2021	$1,200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
DARRELL MUSSATTO	Sep 26, 2022	$250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
POUYA NOURBAKHSH	May 16, 2022	$1,250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
LEEANN PERPELUK	Oct 11, 2022	$500.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
ALFONZO PEZZENTE	Aug 15, 2022	$1,200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
MOHAMMAD REZA PISHEH	Jul 12, 2022	$1,250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
RICHARD WHITE	Aug 28, 2022	$200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF

2018 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS

15 contributions · $13,600.00

Contributor	Date	Amount	Office	Jurisdiction
HOLLY BACK	Dec 12, 2018	$2,400.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
DENNIS BACK	Aug 13, 2018	$1,200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
BYRON CHARD	Oct 11, 2018	$1,000.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
DAVID CHARD	Oct 10, 2018	$1,000.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
ZULFIKARALI DAHYA	Sep 19, 2018	$1,200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
GRAHAM GIBBENS	Oct 18, 2018	$1,200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
WALTER ALBERT HICK	Sep 18, 2018	$1,200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
DARRELL MUSSATTO	Oct 18, 2018	$100.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
RYLAN NELSON	Oct 16, 2018	$100.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
POUYA NOURBAKHSH	Sep 19, 2018	$1,200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
LEEANN PERPELUK	Oct 1, 2018	$400.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
MOHAMMADREZA PISHEH	Sep 19, 2018	$1,200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
ANNE WHITE	Sep 5, 2018	$100.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
RICHARD WHITE	Sep 5, 2018	$100.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
DAVID WOLSTENHOLME	Sep 18, 2018	$1,200.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF

2014 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS

21 contributions · $11,251.36

Contributor	Date	Amount	Office	Jurisdiction
SUNSHINE CABS	Oct 15, 2014	$700.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
DEE DHALIWAL	Sep 30, 2014	$250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
MICHAEL GOODING	Sep 12, 2014	$3,000.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
GENERAL INTERNET INC	Nov 15, 2014	$1,048.95	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
WESTCOAST BEAUTY SUPPLY INC	Sep 30, 2014	$500.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
SALEHI ARCHITECT INC	Oct 8, 2014	$400.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
RAFI ARCHITECTS INC	Sep 30, 2014	$250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
K&T PROPERTIES LTD	Nov 15, 2014	$921.16	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
DARWIN CONSTRUCTION LTD	Nov 15, 2014	$781.25	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
TRIMARK PROPERTY MANAGEMENT	Nov 2, 2014	$400.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
DARRELL MUSSATTO	Sep 30, 2014	$250.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
CITIMARK PROJECTS	Oct 8, 2014	$300.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
HOLLYBURN PROPERTIES	Nov 3, 2014	$500.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
LONSDALE QUAY	Oct 20, 2014	$500.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
RON SHAFER	Sep 30, 2014	$100.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
WESTERN STEVEDORING	Oct 21, 2014	$350.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
FRANCI STRATTON	Sep 30, 2014	$100.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES' UNION	Jan 16, 2015	$400.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
JILL WILDMAN	Sep 30, 2014	$100.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
KEN WILLIAMS	Sep 21, 2014	$300.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF
JOHN ZWARYCH	Sep 30, 2014	$100.00	COUNCILLOR	NORTH VANCOUVER, CITY OF

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