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Simply to state I’m supportive of the staff recommendations that was seconded yes by Councilor Bligh, and in the interest of time it's simply to say I think it's really important that we give some further direction to look at advancing active transportation along Kent Avenue. This has come up for a number of years now. I know I've met with staff on this. It's been identified as a key corridor not for just the City of Vancouver for active transportation, but also within Transport 2050 as part of our transportation network alongside a public transit and so I'm hoping that staff can report back on funding opportunities. Would that be through additional grant programs, through collaboration with translink and metro vancouver, because this route's identified by both of them as a priority or through reallocations, potentially within the four-year capital plan, and there's been many calls for this and we know it's going. We're adding density in that area, as well in the South end of the city, both in the West and East sides, as well. So, and it's a key part of our regional active transportation network as well. So with that, that's the proposal.

And this goes back to a multitude of projects that came forward last term, particularly in the spring and summer months around activations. Some of them were around public activations on the waterfront to bike shares in parkades to food distribution in parking lots that were being underutilized. And I moved a motion at that time to see that we could find a better way forward around that.

And I'm just curious, is that a part of the body of work that's going forward? Because it was an immense frustration for different organizations coming in the city wanting to do innovative things, but just didn't fit the current framework. And so is that a body of work that's coming back to council?

.. you noted the presentation, the focus on sort of more walkability, but also cycling infrastructure is part of that because I have heard from members in the community in that area about the need to enhance the sort of cycling infrastructure. So is that part of the planning work?