Robert GUY Heywood
Council · North Vancouver (City of)
Lower Lonsdale 55 yrs
About
Chartered Professional Accountant, former banker, corp exec, finance consultant. Served 3 terms on School Board, 7 years on the Recreation Commission, two terms on City Council, runner up the last two Mayoral races. Graduated from Argyle '76.
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.
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Support electrification of new buildings.
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Implement a 'right to cool' bylaw to protect tenants during extreme heat events.
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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.
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Expand and protect tree canopy, parks, and green infrastructure to cool neighbourhoods, clean air, and manage stormwater.
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Create connected urban greenways for people and wildlife.
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Land Use
We envision vibrant, walkable communities that protect nature and improve food security.
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Build affordable homes near jobs, schools, shops, and transit.
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Upgrade critical infrastructure for heat, fire, flood, and storm resilience.
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Transport
Connecting neighbourhoods through public transit and active transportation networks will cut pollution, improve public health, and make our communities more affordable (and fun!).
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Deliver reliable, frequent, affordable local transit.
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Advocate to improve regional public transit between communities.
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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.
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Implement bylaws to eliminate waste from new buildings, renovation, and demolition projects and to use existing buildings as efficiently as possible.
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× Opposed
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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?
I will keep riding my bike, driving my hybrid, consulting on renewable energy projects and working on my cleantech startup. The City? It should stop greenwashing. Stop doing things with taxpayers money it believes are progressive but which cannot be validated, or just are performative and often super annoying!
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?
Lonsdale Energy Corp might not be able to deal a 'right to cool' as it was heat only, highly centralized, not necessarily resilient (cast iron pipes) system supported by a bylaw that discouraged a/c in many early buildings and has a pricing structure that might actually discourage wholistic smart, thermally balanced buildings. It has to justify its very existence in addition to it path to carbon neutrality.
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?
Oh for crying out loud... it is possible that LEC was a greenwashing exercise from the start. It forced geo thermal on to the new School Board building that may or may not be successul. The solar thermal array on top of the Library seems to have been a failure.
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?
Hah! Good one .."correct" the taxes. Like you think they got the math wrong? They are not taxes, they are rates based on operating flow and the dollars that will be needed to pay P&I on Metro debt to the MFA. The NorthShore's reps to Metro applied for 30 amortization of NSWWTP debt back in 2021!! That's before the 2022 election...if they knew something bad was coming (they must have) they should have been struggling mightily to pull their communities out of harms way instead of being Vice Chair exactly during the time the sh*t was getting real. What can be done now? I dunno. Find a good lawyer and see if there are flaws or some kind of case in administrative law or natural justice that can push back on a process by which the 92% can arbitrarily decide that the 8% should suffer as they must?
What steps would you take to require retention of mature trees through land use planning or other tools.
Well for one thing the natural canopy in North Vancouver, and the enforcement of tree cutting standards should be done North Vancouver - wide. Management of important riparian areas and watersheds should not be impeded by a really stupid and very unnatural City/District boundary.
Should the tree bylaw apply to ALL sites, even if the sites are not being re-developed?
I honestly don't know. There seems to be some backstory or agenda to this question that I am not privy to.
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