Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley says his 2026 re-election platform includes delivering 1,000 new affordable rental homes.
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Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley, who is seeking a third term in the 2026 civic election, has unveiled a re-election platform that includes a commitment to have the City’s Burnaby Housing Authority deliver 1,000 new affordable rental homes.
Hurley faces five challengers for mayor in the election scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, after previously securing a second term by acclamation ahead of the 2022 civic election when no other candidates stepped forward.
In the platform, Hurley committed to keeping the City of Burnaby debt-free and holding municipal property taxes at or below the regional annual average.
He also highlighted housing-related goals including shortening the wait for homebuilding permits and keeping development cost charges down to make housing more affordable.
Hurley, a former firefighter first elected mayor in 2018, received 26,260 votes, and the 2018 election was described as having him as the only serious challenger among four candidates running against longtime incumbent Derek Corrigan.
On public safety and emergency preparedness, Hurley said he wants to move the temporary shelter on Buller Avenue to another location and build the planned Buller Beresford Park at the site, with the shelter’s lease ending in 2028.
He also promised to complete expanding the Burnaby RCMP detachment, and to extend the wildfire early-warning system to Central Park and Robert Burnaby Park, along with holding a citywide emergency planning exercise.
For community and recreation projects, Hurley said he wants to complete major facilities already under construction, including the Burnaby Lake Recreation Centre, Cameron Community Centre and Library in the Lougheed Town Centre area, and Brentwood Community Centre, which he said is integrated into a Grosvenor mixed-use development next to SkyTrain’s Brentwood Town Centre Station.
On transportation, his platform includes working with TransLink to add more north-south bus routes, building on the R2 RapidBus extension from Phibbs bus exchange to Metrotown via Willingdon Avenue.
Hurley also said he will continue pushing the provincial government to advance the remaining phase of the Burnaby Hospital redevelopment and referenced a provincial announcement of $210 million for expansions and upgrades to the emergency department and surgical unit, including 16 additional emergency treatment spaces and four upgraded operating rooms, with no completion dates provided for a subsequent cancer care expansion or a new acute care tower.
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