Better Langley Community Society

05/27/2026

Make sure to vote for your neighborhood if you live in Langley City 🗳️

We’re launching Resilient Neighbourhood Networks—and we want your input on which neighbourhood(s) to launch it in first!

Vote for your neighbourhood by June 16, 2026, at 👉 LetsChat.LangleyCity.ca/Safety

Strong neighbourhoods start with neighbours who know and support each other. Based on recommendations from the Citizens’ Assembly on Community Safety, this initiative is designed to help residents connect and build safer, more resilient communities.

05/15/2026

Below-market housing is desperately needed, and creating more affordable homes is a positive step for our community. But we still need to be smart about how it’s delivered and ask whether the Township’s current approach is actually providing good value.

This article raises important questions about the Langley Housing Trust and how effectively our public resources are being used.

Below-market housing for working families, seniors, and young people is a noble goal. I believe government should be pursuing it. I also believe that good intentions aren’t enough, you have to look at what went in to determine if a project was worth it. With election season underway, Mayor Woodwar...

05/13/2026

New developments in the Township’s legal battle over Community Amenity Contributions.

The Township of Langley has abandoned its appeal to a court case it lost last summer over CAC developet payments.

This is important because CACs are the only method (other than property tax) to pay for 3 large projects started this term: 5 Rinks Expansion at LEC, Smith Athletic Park and the Brookswood Firehall.

I'll do a video this week summarizing the history here and where the risks lie for taxpayers.

04/29/2026

The Province passed legislation that would make it much easier for grandparents to age in place with their children and grandchildren nearby.

Now the Township of Langley is making it harder and more expensive 💸

There is a quiet revolution happening in British Columbia. Families are finding ways to stay together in a crushing housing market by building multi-unit hom...

04/23/2026

🎬 In this clip, the Mayor dismisses concerns about the Township of Langley‘s rising debt as “hate and misinformation“. But independent analysis from CBC reporter Justin McElroy shows the Township is an outlier among B.C. municipalities.

McElroy’s charts don’t lie 📊

It’s time to stop dismissing questions about the debt and start addressing them ⏰

03/28/2026

03/18/2026

The transformation of our streets is ultimately a question of design priorities.

For decades, urban space has been structured from the bottom up—giving dominance to private vehicles, and leaving limited, fragmented space for people, nature, and collective life.

This diagram proposes a necessary inversion: a street hierarchy where nature and human life come first, followed by active mobility, public transport, and only then private cars.

An inclusive street pyramid is not symbolic—it is operational. It reallocates space, redefines flows, and reshapes everyday experience. Trees become infrastructure, walking becomes the default, cycling becomes safe, and public transport becomes efficient.

Placing nature and people at the top means designing streets as living systems, not traffic corridors.

This is not only a mobility shift.
It is a cultural and ecological transition toward streets that sustain life rather than simply move vehicles. 🌿🚶‍♀️🚲🏙️

03/04/2026

A deep dive into the performing arts centre plan The Township of Langley is planning to build a 1,600 seat performing arts centre. The Mayor says it will cost $85M. The Township’s own ACC bylaw says $150M. However, when you look at what comparable facilities are actually costing in BC right now, i...

02/28/2026

What One Subtitle in the Capital Budget Reveals The Township’s 2026 Capital budget shows $177M in borrowing consolidated into its debt calculations despite previous public assurances it would have no impact. In December I published an article ‘Willoughby Will Never Get Its Pool’, an investigat...

02/07/2026

This is where my business and politics collide. I may be long retired by the time the majority of this plan is implemented, but that’s the point: is a vision of something great for the future.

I’ve been known to get pretty excited over pretty nerdy things: city plans are one of those things. On a quiet, foggy, February night, I dropped off the kids at home from evening school & Taekwondo, drove over to Langley’s local Kwantlen Polytechnic University campus, ignored the paid-parking si...