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| On June 24, 2025, Maple Ridge Council endorsed its first-ever Climate Action Plan, Resilient Future 2050: Moving Boldly Toward Low-Carbon Resilience.
The plan outlines five key strategies—called “Bold Moves”—and 58 actionable steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, enhance climate resilience, and support sustainable growth across the city. Over 80% of the actions are slated for implementation within five years (2025 - 2030).
Developed with extensive community input and backed by provincial funding, the plan includes updated sustainability targets, supports both rural and urban areas, and will be monitored through the City’s Community Scorecard. A cross-departmental Climate Action Team has been struck to manage and oversee implementation of the actions outlined in the plan and ensure alignment with existing projects at the city to maximize resource utilization.
The key result had three related initiatives that are all completed - multi-hazard risk and vulnerability assessment, extreme temperature risk mapping and analysis and development of the community climate action plan. | |
| The initiative to develop the standards will launch in early 2026. At that time, the City will select a consultant to examine foundation work completed by regional municipalities and develop standards which reflect the development characteristics of Maple Ridge. For now, City staff are working to refine the scope of the work based on review of best practice. The Key Result is still on track to be met by June 2026. | |
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| The plan to reduce reliance on natural gas has been completed. The work related to the implementation of a solar energy project is still underway and is currently in phase 1. Staff are collaborating with BC Hydro to explore the various Solar configuration options, review Hydro incentives for these options, and then conduct a feasibility study to enable the City to be eligible to receive Hydro incentives. This work will also ensure the best location for the solar panels. The project will take several months to complete when initial analysis is done, but will still be dependent on factors such as availability of grants to fund portions of the project and review by Council. | |
| Understanding how climate risks will impact residents and the work of the City is a priority. This project associated with this Key Result involved development of a framework that will help inform decision making and policy for the City into the future. Staff have developed a climate and resiliency lens and framework. They are now working to incorporate this at different levels of city procurement, operations and planning. | |
| The City has been approved for Natural Resource Canada's Zero Emissions vehicle funding for this project.
For the City to be comprehensively green flleet ready for passenger and light duty vehicles, 2 separate phases of EV chargers must be installed.
Phase one of the project has been tendered and awarded. Construction is expected to start in October and be completed by end of year.
Planning for phase 2 of the project has started and work is underway. However, given changes to the solar market dynamics, which has impacted original project estimates, the tender for phase 2 is expected to go public March 2026 with construction completed by end of 4th quarter 2026.
As such, the end date of the Key Result has been moved to December 2026 from December 2025. | |
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| Work to review the procurement documents for the project associated with this Key Result are underway. However, given competing priorities the project has not yet proceeded to procurement. Given these competing priorities, as of the previous quarterly update (Q2 2025), the end date for the initiative and Key Result have been changed to mid 2026 to allow time to complete the study. | |
| Work on the project associated with this Key Result is in progress. The work underway is focused on refining of engineering assumptions, including imperviousness of future land uses and mitigation measures, as well as sizing of stormwater storage. This work models future climate scenarios to inform future actions.
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| This key result has been met. The project associated with this key result undertook assessment of lands that were suitable for preservation of natural assets. In 2024 the City was able to identify and put in place protection for 9 hectares of land that will be conserved as a natural asset for the betterment of the community. | |
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Maple Ridge City Council has adopted the City’s first-ever Urban Forest Management Strategy, marking a significant milestone in its commitment to preserving and enhancing the city's diverse urban forest.
The Urban Forest Management Strategy (UFMS) outlines comprehensive measures to sustainably manage and expand Maple Ridge's vital green spaces and tree canopy in the context of urban development and climate challenges.
See Urban Forest Management Strategy | Maple Ridge, BC for further information and a copy of the final strategy.
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| In 2025 the City planted over 1800 new trees in 7 parks in Maple Ridge through grant funding and has continued to apply for more tree planting grants as they become available. In Fall 2025 - Spring 2026, over 1,000 new street trees will be planted in boulevards and in parks across Maple Ridge, focusing on areas of the City with low tree canopy. These new street trees are also part of a successful tree planting grant.
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| Area plans and the Official Community Plan have been reviewed to incorporate findings of the UFMS (Urban Forest Management Strategy). The Tree Protection and Management bylaw will be reviewed further and will be substantially updated as a next step in this work. | |