@DavisJKyle

Kelowna Councillor-elect Past President of @KelownaCycling Hunter Prize for Housing Runner-Up 🏗️🔰🌐 Personal views expressed, not of Council or employer.

 Kelowna, BC
Joined February 2018
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THANK YOU KELOWNA! I am so grateful for the support you gave me today. Please know that I do not take this lightly, and I will do everything in my power to serve our community well, while sticking to the policy promises I’ve made throughout the course of the campaign.
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Baking in perimeter blocks as the new setbacks in our zoning frameworks seems to be a much better path than small setbacks around the building that nobody uses. Private park > dead space.
Russil Wvong@russilwvongOct 25
Replying to @UrbanCourtyard @jasonc_nc @musharbash_b
Victoria, BC is reducing minimum front setbacks in order to support future perimeter blocks, as parcels on a block are redeveloped. morehousing.ca/victoria-ocp
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Here’s hoping the BC Conservative Majority will continue the work needed to allow missing middle builders access to the global elevator market.
Bryn Davidson @Lanefab@LanefabOct 6
"Affordable Elevators" you say? Break free of the US-Centric elevator cartel? Transform how we do "missing middle"? Change our approach to urban planning in North America? Here's v1 of my elevator policy roadmap for BC / Vancouver.
BC Elevator Regulations vs. Alternative Standards Regulatory Area Current Rule (BC / Vancouver) Potential Replacement / Alternative Impact of Replacement Elevator Sizing & EMS Access The "Stretcher Rule" BCBC & VBBL Sec. 3.5.4.1 Requires an elevator to fit a 2010mm x 610mm stretcher. Forces large 2500 lb capacity cabs. Mid-Rise Exemption Exempt buildings under 6 or 7 storeys from the stretcher requirement. First responders use stair chairs. Frees up significant floor plate area in multiplexes and low-rise point access blocks. Mechanical Standards ASME A17.1 / CSA B44 North American code requiring deep pits, high overhead clearances, and heavy mechanical load tolerances. EN 81 / ISO 8100 Global standard. Relies on electronic safety monitoring and allows for highly compact shafts. Drastically reduces overhead/pit dimensions and lowers unit costs due to global mass production. Cab Dimensions Oversized Defaults Standard residential cabs are massive relative to small footprints to meet B44

ALT BC Elevator Regulations vs. Alternative Standards Regulatory Area Current Rule (BC / Vancouver) Potential Replacement / Alternative Impact of Replacement Elevator Sizing & EMS Access The "Stretcher Rule" BCBC & VBBL Sec. 3.5.4.1 Requires an elevator to fit a 2010mm x 610mm stretcher. Forces large 2500 lb capacity cabs. Mid-Rise Exemption Exempt buildings under 6 or 7 storeys from the stretcher requirement. First responders use stair chairs. Frees up significant floor plate area in multiplexes and low-rise point access blocks. Mechanical Standards ASME A17.1 / CSA B44 North American code requiring deep pits, high overhead clearances, and heavy mechanical load tolerances. EN 81 / ISO 8100 Global standard. Relies on electronic safety monitoring and allows for highly compact shafts. Drastically reduces overhead/pit dimensions and lowers unit costs due to global mass production. Cab Dimensions Oversized Defaults Standard residential cabs are massive relative to small footprints to meet B44

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Voting matters. 18 of 93 ridings in British Columbia's election were decided by less than 1,000 votes.
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Castanet@CastanetNewsOct 25
Racism is going mainstream, especially in our politics (Murphy’s Law of Politics) castanet.net/news/Murphys-La…

Racism is going mainstream, especially in our politics

Someone took a razor blade to Kelowna city council candidate Mohini Singh’s face—on her municipal election signs, to be precise. In Kelowna. This fall.

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On municipal infrastructure, I look forward to working with the Province on: Bonded utility financing as a DCC replacement Re-legalizing split-rate property tax Along with direct funding requests for overdue items like the new transit yard and Highway 97 intersection fixes.
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I hope that we will see progress made on reducing homelessness, reducing overdoses, and ensuring that residents feel safe in our communities. Figuring out how to reduce deficit to GDP while building these, and schools, and hospitals, is an incredible challenge.
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Finally, I want to see ranked ballots municipally and some form of STV+ or pro-rep Provincially. Enough of the vote splitting nonsense.
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Rob Silver@RobSilverOct 25
How rare is an interim leader winning an election? I could only find one precedent. Not just in Canada - in all Westminster countries at the national or provincial/state levels. Searched UK, Australia, NZ. Just found one. British Columbia in 1952
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castanet.net/news/Kelowna/63… Very disappointing to see record low turnout. Regardless of the election outcome, nobody should want that. I look forward to working with my local MLA’s on Kelowna priorities, and seeing the final results in Kelowna Centre

B.C. sees record low voter turnout during election

The Conservative Party of B.C. won a significant majority government Saturday night, but the province saw record low voter turnout this year.

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Davis Kyle@DavisJKyleOct 24
Replying to @Beefshaver
To be fair, Vancouver is extremely different than BC as a whole.
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You can’t ask people to vote strategically if you are campaigning on opposing electoral reform.
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kelowna.ca/city-hall/city-go… Extremely interesting poll-by-poll results here. Candidates winning polling stations while coming 18th overall. Some winners doing extremely poorly in Rutland. Large differences between early voting & election day.

Elections results - General Election (2026)

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missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p… Missing Middle Institute put out some very interesting DCC work that I would like to put staff to work on. Very interesting read.

British Columbia Can Substantially Lower Housing Costs with One Simple Trick

Charging DCCs as a separate tax can reduce "junk fees" by tens of thousands of dollars

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Vancouver voting for these questions overwhelmingly while electing a Green & Socialist council says a lot about where urban / core suburban voters are on the public safety file, and on the economics file. Huge lessons to take away from this.
Kenneth Chan
@iamkennethchanOct 21
BREAKING... City of Vancouver voters overwhelmingly voted "YES" in both public safety plebiscite questions. 68.6% for enhancing enforcement against public use of hard drugs. 68% on creating a secure medical treatment facility. #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanc…

68% approval: Vancouver votes 'Yes' in public safety plebiscite questions | Daily Hive | Urbanized

Voters in the City of Vancouver's public safety plebiscite overwhelmingly voted "Yes" in the two questions during the civic election.

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Simultaneously true that: People are feeling a greater economic pinch than ever and moving towards radical options that they think will help make their lives affordable. & are very tired of open drug use / disorder, and will vote for ways they think will make things better.
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I think it’s worrying that the (relative) technocrats pretty convincingly lost the argument in Vancouver (OneCity) on things like upzoning, let alone cutting the cost to build. People are not looking for housing specifics as much as they are looking for… movement politics?
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Statistically significant surveys and elections - the best forms of community engagement. Outcomes are what truly matters at the end of the day. What have you delivered for people, not what words you’ve used or hours in meetings along the way.
TheOmniZaddy 🌹🌐🔰🏗
@TheOmniZaddyOct 21
Oh my god it’s real
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Thank you, Kelowna. Last night, you gave me the honour of serving as your mayor for another four years. I don’t take that lightly, and I won’t take it for granted. There’s more work to do, and I’m ready to get to it.
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Full statement: instagram.com/p/DeoIMryiSZE/…

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