At the final council meeting of 2025, Mayor Dan Ruimy offered a year in review.
A focus in 2025 was delivering the city’s capital plan. Over the course of the year, 57 capital investments were completed or advanced, including 15 water, sewer and drainage projects, nine transportation projects, six parks and tree planting projects, four technology upgrades, the ACT Arts Centre roof replacement, and 23 other facility, vehicle and infrastructure improvements across the community.
“We advanced the next phase of the Abernethy Way corridor, progressed planning for the North 256 Street Industrial Lands, streamlined development approvals so homes can be built faster, and moved forward with planning for future recreation facilities,” said Ruimy.
Some other highlights of 2025 the mayor offered included:
• Exceeding the province’s housing target under the Housing Supply Act, delivering 751 net new homes between July 1, 2024, and June 30, above the target of 612 units.
• Secured $16.6M from the federal Housing Accelerator Fund to fast-track housing by investing in enabling infrastructure, modernizing housing policies, and streamlining development processes.
• Updated the Official Community Plan and key area plans for Town Centre, Hammond, Silver Valley, and Albion neighbourhoods, aligning land use with new provincial housing legislation and focusing on growth close to transit service, such as the Lougheed Transit Corridor and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route.
• Completed a key phase of the Abernethy Way Corridor Improvements from 224 to 230 Street, delivering road widening, multi-use pathways, sidewalks, and intersection improvements.
• Advanced the next phase of Abernethy Way, extending the corridor from 232 Street to 240 Street, improving east–west connectivity, managing traffic congestion, which will ultimately provide access to the North 256 Street industrial lands as part of the Maple Ridge Moves transportation strategy.
• Delivered transportation improvements including over 11 km of roadway paved and 500 square meters of sidewalk replaced.
• Installed 47 Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons installations, including school zone.
• Invested $1.9 million in the new spray park at Maple Ridge Park, designed with family input and funded in part by the Growing Communities Fund.
• Opened a new neighbourhood park at Pazarena Place in south Haney.
• Adopted new Zero Carbon Step Code requirements for residential construction, with 60 building permits issued to date.
• Installed new electric vehicle chargers at the Operations Centre; all cars in the City fleet are now either electric or hybrid.
• Hosted the second annual “Our Neck of the Woods” festival, the largest community event in city history, with an estimated 20,000 attendees.
• Onboarded and trained eight new career firefighters and 35 paid-on-call firefighters.
• Hosted 1.28 million visits to MapleRidge.ca – a 30.1% increase in access to City website.
• Generated over $730,000 in revenue and an estimated $7 million in economic impact across 260 film productions, a 15 per cent increase in revenue from 2024.
For more information on the progress on Council’s Strategic Plan, visit MapleRidge.ca/CouncilStratPlan.