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Tom Dyas
Independent for Kelowna Mayor
Our platform was put together by listening to people like you — experts in your field, victims of crime, people who have been homeless, new Canadians, lifelong Kelowna residents, students, seniors and everyone in between.
Climate Change
Active Transportation
Build more active transportation corridors, multi-use paths and sidewalks
Advocate for safe streets for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians
Create more safe storage for bicycles
Energy-Efficient Buildings & Retrofits
Fight for a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program to allow you to make your home more efficient through loans
Flooding
Improve flood mitigation
Protect sensitive ecosystems
Green Space
Incentivize and promote xeriscaping
Promote planting more trees to grow the urban canopy
Build tree-lined medians
Private Vehicles
Build the four-lane enhancement to Glenmore Road
Increase capacity on Lakeshore Road
Create solutions to ease traffic on Highway 97 and review light synchronization
Urban Heat
Consider The Urban Heat Island effect in decision-making
Housing & Homelessness
Affordability
Rent City of Kelowna-owned rental apartments at affordable prices, not market rent.
Recognize that increases to development charges increase housing prices.
Reduce barriers to “missing middle” housing — like carriage homes, townhomes and secondary suites.
Property Taxes
Conduct an independent third-party audit of the City’s finances to find efficiencies and savings — without reducing services.
Recognize that increases to development charges increase housing prices.
Rental Stock
Reduce barriers to “missing middle” housing — like carriage homes, townhomes and secondary suites.
SROs
Review the City's AirBnB regulations recognizing that the City's current 0.6% vacancy rate is detrimental to our rental availability.
Unhoused People
Prioritize housing with treatment first
Create more flexible housing options for homeless residents.
Fight for complex care housing.
Local Government & Democracy
Budgeting
Conduct an independent third-party audit of the City’s finances to find efficiencies and savings — without reducing services.
Public Engagement
Before making key decisions ensure that meetings take place with City staff, the applicants, and local community members.
Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction
Treatment Programmes
Fight for complex care housing
Prioritize housing with treatment first
Public Safety & Policing
Non-Police-Based Public Safety
Add a dedicated nurse to the RCMP cell block
Create a Kelowna Citizens Patrol
Partner more nurses with our RCMP officers
Review high-rise firefighting capabilities and hire more firefighters
Empower our by-law officers
Police Funding
Create an RCMP Community Policing office at UBCO
End bicycle chop shops
Create an organized and violent crime task force
Action Community Public Safety Plan
Upstream Causes of Crime
Learn from communities across North America who have tackled their crime issues
Prioritize crime intervention through environmental design
Public Spaces & Services
Green Space
Incentivize and promote xeriscaping
Promote planting more trees to grow the urban canopy
Build tree-lined medians
Sidewalks & Bike Paths
Advocate for safe streets for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians
Build more active transportation corridors, multi-use paths and sidewalks
Create more safe storage for bicycles
Transit & Getting Around
Active Transportation
Build more active transportation corridors, multi-use paths and sidewalks
Advocate for safe streets for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians
Create more safe storage for bicycles
New Transit Projects
Increase public transit services to UBCO, Okanagan College and industrial hubs
Improve bus shelters
Conduct an external public transit system review
Private Vehicles
Build the four-lane enhancement to Glenmore Road
Increase capacity on Lakeshore Road
Create solutions to ease traffic on Highway 97 and review light synchronization
Sidewalks & Bike Paths
Advocate for safe streets for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians
Build more active transportation corridors, multi-use paths and sidewalks
Create more safe storage for bicycles
Biography
submitted by the candidate or their team
Tom Dyas is a successful entrepreneur, devoted father and active volunteer in Kelowna.
Tom has decades of experience as a small business owner, volunteer on social causes and local sporting events, and advocate with the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce.
Tom has decades of experience as a small business owner, volunteer on social causes and local sporting events, and advocate with the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce.
Tom founded TD Benefits and has operated it right here in Kelowna since 2001. He has also previously served with the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce for over ten years, including two terms as President.
Tom has been actively involved in our community for years through Kelowna Minor Hockey, including as Chair of Kelowna's successful 2020 Memorial Cup bid, and on important community committees, like the Airport Advisory Committee, the Child Advocacy Centre Board, the City of Kelowna's Journey Home Task Force, and the new course development committee at Okanagan College.
Reason for running
submitted by the candidate or their team
Tom is running for Mayor because while we've seen some positive changes in the last eight years, we're falling behind on what matters most.
Kelowna has the highest crime rate in Canada, the most homeless people we've ever had, the most traffic congestion, and highest taxes.
Kelowna has the highest crime rate in Canada, the most homeless people we've ever had, the most traffic congestion, and highest taxes.
Tom is committed to working with local experts, city staff and internationally renowned experts to tackle our biggest issues. He knows that the key to getting the right results is to work with people who have expert experience, and never shutting the door on the public.
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