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From YouTube: NOVEMBER 16 2021 Statements Andrew Mercier
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
2nd Session
42nd Parliament
A
Member
for
langley-
thank
you,
mr
speaker.
Skytrain
is
coming
to
langley
and
it
is
going
to
be
a
significant
benefit
for
british
columbians,
taking
17
000
cars
off
the
road
and
reducing
greenhouse
gas
emissions.
But
it
is
also
going
to
be
a
significant
benefit
for
the
city
of
langley,
and
that
is
because
of
the
hard
work
and
heavy
lifting
that
langley
city
council
has
done
in
preparing
its
new
official
community
plan.
A
And
this
plan,
mr
speaker,
is
going
to
be
transformative
and
it's
going
to
ensure
that,
with
the
advent
of
skytrain
and
the
arrival
of
the
skytrain
stations
around
196
and
203rd
street,
that
we're
shaping
growth
and
not
just
chasing
and
reacting
to
it,
and
that
we
preserve
the
community
and
the
community
spirit
of
langley,
while
at
the
same
time
providing
multiple
different
forms
of
affordable
and
diverse
housing
types.
So
langley
doesn't
just
become
a
city
of
luxury
condos,
but
a
city
of
affordable,
multi-family
housing.
A
Where
generations,
where
you
can
raise
generations
of
family
living
side
by
side-
and
it
also
takes
into
account
chime
climate
change
mitigation
and
ensuring
that
flood
construction
levels
around
the
nickel
mecca
stay
at
an
appropriate
level,
which
I
think
you
know
as
we've
seen
in
the
past.
The
past
few
days
is
incredibly
important.
A
So
I
just
want
to
take
a
second
give
a
shout
out
to
langley
city
council
for
all
their
hard
work,
mayor,
val
vandenbrook,
counselors,
gail,
martin,
terry
james,
paul,
albrecht,
rudy,
stordabroom,
rosemary
wallace
and
last
but
not
least,
my
friend
counselor
nathan
pahall.
But
I
also
want
to
take
a
sec
and
thank
the
hard-working
staff
at
langley
city,
in
particular
all
the
staff,
but
in
particular
chief
administrative
officer,
francis
chung
and
director
of
development
services,
carl
johansson,
who
have
done
a
tremendous
amount
of
work
on
the
new
official
community
plan.