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Keerit Jutla

Vote Vancouver for Vancouver Council

Climate Change, Heat, Fires, & the Environment

Green Space

Vote Vancouver promises

Maintaining Vancouver’s 30% tree-canopy target while separately measuring mature canopy and newly planted trees.
Protecting the Champlain Heights forest and trail network.

Private Vehicles & Parking

Vote Vancouver promises

Introduce a prepaid parking pass for seniors, so people who don’t use smartphones can park without needing a parking app.
Protect short-term, affordable, and accessible parking near medical facilities and senior-serving destinations.
Set a two-hour maximum in short-term parking areas to improve turnover and reduce parking costs while managing demand.

Walking & Cycling

Vote Vancouver promises

Vote Vancouver will create a free seasonal bike valet program, using existing, underused EasyPark spaces to provide secure, monitored bicycle storage.
Address known safety problems around cycling in the city including sightlines, signal timing, turning conflicts, accessibility concerns, and connections to existing bike routes.

Zoning

Vote Vancouver promise

Streamline zoning processes to reduce unnecessary delays.

Housing & Homelessness

Zoning

Vote Vancouver promise

Streamline zoning processes to reduce unnecessary delays.

Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction

Mental Health Crisis Response

Vote Vancouver promise

Advocating for more provincial support, including more mental health services for young people, more counsellors in schools, expanded psychiatric beds and treatment capacity, and more recovery programs.

Treatment for Addiction

Vote Vancouver promises

Building more Recovery Community Centres that connect people with immediate resources.
Supporting St. Paul’s Road to Recovery program.

Public Safety & Policing

Non-Police-Based Public Safety

Vote Vancouver promises

Developing a Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy in collaboration with police, healthcare providers, non-profit organizations, Indigenous organizations, businesses and community groups.
Establishing a Restorative Justice System in line with Vancouver’s commitment to become the first Restorative City in Canada.

Upstream Causes of Crime

Vote Vancouver promises

Supporting St. Paul’s Road to Recovery program.
Building more Recovery Community Centres that connect people with immediate resources.

Public Spaces & Services

Fitness & Sports Facilities

Vote Vancouver promises

Deliver a 50-metre pool.
Commit to pools at Sunset and Marpole Community Centres.
Advancing the Britannia Community Services Precinct renewal and working to keep pools open wherever possible during renewal.
Restoring full practical public access to Kitsilano Pool.
Delivering a Community Health in Our Parks Plan with outdoor fitness and calisthenics equipment.

Green Space

Vote Vancouver promises

Maintaining Vancouver’s 30% tree-canopy target while separately measuring mature canopy and newly planted trees.
Protecting the Champlain Heights forest and trail network.

Public Washrooms

Vote Vancouver promise

Building more public washrooms in and near: commercial districts, parks, the Downtown Eastside, community centres, pedestrian plazas, and other high use public areas.

Sidewalks & Bike Paths

Vote Vancouver promises

Complete the Broadway Bike Lane.
Enforce more accessible sidewalks through constructing and fixing curb cuts where they do not exist or are not sufficiently accessible.

Zoning

Vote Vancouver promise

Streamline zoning processes to reduce unnecessary delays.

Transit & Getting Around

Private Vehicles & Parking

Vote Vancouver promises

Introduce a prepaid parking pass for seniors, so people who don’t use smartphones can park without needing a parking app.
Protect short-term, affordable, and accessible parking near medical facilities and senior-serving destinations.
Set a two-hour maximum in short-term parking areas to improve turnover and reduce parking costs while managing demand.

Sidewalks & Bike Paths

Vote Vancouver promises

Complete the Broadway Bike Lane.
Enforce more accessible sidewalks through constructing and fixing curb cuts where they do not exist or are not sufficiently accessible.

Transit Projects

Vote Vancouver promises

Work with TransLink and the Province to make transit free for Vancouver youth under 18.
Deliver an all-electric passenger ferry service that connects Downtown Vancouver with Bowen Island and the Sunshine Coast.

Walking & Cycling

Vote Vancouver promises

Vote Vancouver will create a free seasonal bike valet program, using existing, underused EasyPark spaces to provide secure, monitored bicycle storage.
Address known safety problems around cycling in the city including sightlines, signal timing, turning conflicts, accessibility concerns, and connections to existing bike routes.

Biography

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Keerit Jutla is a lawyer, business leader, and community advocate with a career spent negotiating with governments, building companies, and forming partnerships with Indigenous communities across Canada.

Keerit Jutla is a lawyer, business leader, and community advocate with a career spent negotiating with governments, building companies, and forming partnerships with Indigenous communities across Canada. He is the CEO and Founder of Invicta Metals Corp., built on consent-first partnerships with First Nations, and previously served as President and CEO of the Association for Mineral Exploration and in senior roles with the Government of British Columbia. Called to the bars of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Yukon, he practised Aboriginal and regulatory law at Woodward and Company and JFK Law, and holds a JD, an MBA in Energy and Natural Resources, and a Master’s degree in Political Science.

Keerit is running for City Council to bring that same experience, negotiating with power and building consent-based partnerships, directly to the people of Vancouver. He believes decisions about this city should be made in the open, not behind closed doors, and that growth should happen for residents, not to them.

Outside of work, Keerit is a soccer nut. He’s a season ticket holder for the Vancouver Whitecaps and Vancouver Rise FC. He’s also the proud dog dad to his princess of a pup, Rio the Jindo.

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