MOTION ON NOTICE

At the Council meeting of November 20, 2001, Councillor Bass submitted the following Notice of Motion which was recognized by the Chair:

November 2002 Plebiscite on Car Pollution Fee (File: 3752)

MOVER: Councillor Bass
SECONDER: Councillor

WHEREAS it has been the policy of TransLink and thus of City Council to implement an annual fee charged to all GVRD car owners-a car pollution fee;

AND WHEREAS the Provincial Government has stated that it will only implement a car pollution fee if it is passed by plebiscite;

AND WHEREAS our transportation is desperately in need of stable long-term funding;

AND WHEREAS in 1993, the GVRD estimated that the subsidy to the car amounted to 2.7 billion dollars, while the subsidy to transit was 0.4 billion dollars;

AND WHEREAS the number of cars has increased steadily since 1993, though it is a major goal of the GVRD's Livable Region Strategy to increase use of transit and decrease use of the single occupant vehicles;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Vancouver city council request the provincial government to conduct a plebiscite on the car pollution fee at the time of the next municipal election, November 16, 2002.

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