Vancouver passes motion for multi-residential cooling solutions
Vancouver City Council passed a motion calling for the provincial government to address critical gaps in access to cooling solutions, particularly for those living in multi-unit residential buildings, like strata condominium units.
Currently, the Vancouver Charter allows the City to set minimum temperature standards but not maximum indoor temperature limits.
To close this gap, the council is urging the province to grant the city with authority to set maximum safe indoor temperatures for residential buildings and amend the Strata Property Act to recognize the “right to cool,” so strata residents can install cooling solutions like air conditioning or heat pumps. Incentives, grants, or subsidies would further support the installation of energy-efficient, climate-resilient cooling systems for individual unit owners in strata buildings. …[Continue Reading]