Category Archives: South Surrey

Visualizing growth: Grandview

This is the third post in our decade-end retrospective visualizing urban growth in the City. This post examines the joint neighbourhoods of Morgan Heights, Rosemary Heights, and Grandview Heights, all located east of Hwy 99 in South Surrey. It is the … Continue reading

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Why does Build Surrey ignore Libraries?

The Build Surrey program, which promises to play infrastructure catch up to deal with the extraordinary growth of the City, includes recreation facilities, parks, arts spaces, and even police stations. While these are certainly much needed community spaces, the program … Continue reading

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2011 Budget funds Build Surrey program

The Build Surrey program, a series of capital investments in civic infrastructure intended to support population and business growth in the City, now has a preliminary price tag, as well as an initial timeline. Costing roughly $280 million, the initiative … Continue reading

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Watts expected to vote down proposed King George B-Line

Despite years of rhetoric touting the expansion of transit within Surrey, now that a reasonable and affordable option is on the table that would, among other things, begin a long-planned B-Line service down King George, Mayor Watts has decided that … Continue reading

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Christmas in Surrey 2010

Looking for some holiday cheer this side of the Fraser? Look no further as we present Civic Surrey’s annual Christmas in Surrey post! There’s a growing list of events occurring right here in Surrey to satisfy your festive desires, from … Continue reading

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TownShift: Phase two begins

TownShift, Surrey’s successful urban design competition, is about to enter a new outreach phase. Under the moniker TownShift: Connected, the City will embark on a series of community consultations to discuss the ideas that were presented in the competition and … Continue reading

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Surrey’s most dangerous intersections

Earlier in October, the Vancouver Sun distributed car accident information for the entire province on their website. Data from ICBC between 2005 to 2009 revealed that Surrey has the second most crashes in the region, with close to 60,000 accidents, … Continue reading

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