Resilient communities, where people are prioritized.
Strong Towns is an organization advocating for livable and financially resilient communities, where people are prioritized over cars.

- • Safe & Productive Streets
- • Mix-use Development
- • End Parking Mandates
- • Transparent Local Accounting
- • End Highway Expansion
ABOUT
We call Kelowna home and seek to make it a place where everyone can thrive. We advocate for cities of all sizes to be safe, livable, and inviting. Kelowna’s issues of affordability and traffic congestion can only be solved by replacing Kelowna’s post-war pattern of development, the Suburban Experiment, with a pattern of development that is financially strong and resilient. We work to elevate local government to be the highest level of collaboration for people working together in a place, not merely the lowest level in a hierarchy of governments.
5 PRIORITY CAMPAIGNS
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Safe & Productive Streets
Streets aren’t for sitting in traffic, and more roads will only add to the problem. Traffic congestion and road safety can only be fixed by shifting the priority of local streets from automobile throughput to human safety and wealth creation.
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Mix-use Development
Neighbourhoods where people can live, work, shop and play increase our connection to our communities. Shockingly these mixed-use neighbourhoods are illegal to build in the vast majority of Kelowna. We seek to have the next increment of development intensity allowed, by right, in every neighborhood in Kelowna.
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End Parking Mandates & Subsidies
We seek an end to the mandates and subsidies that cause productive land to be used for motor vehicle storage.
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Transparent Local Accounting
We seek to reveal the financial implications of the Suburban Experiment by increasing the transparency of local government accounting practices.
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End Highway Expansion
Giant highways divide our city and cut us off from one another - and traffic is as bad as it’s ever been! We seek to curtail the primary mechanism of local wealth destruction and municipal insolvency: the continued expansion of motorways and related auto-based transportation systems. And advocate for actual solutions in their place (transit, biking etc)!
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For Kelowna to have a high quality of life, it must have a strong economy
Davis Kyle
Kelowna must focus on building a city that works for everyone—where housing is affordable, good jobs are available, and the cost of living is manageable. Rather than increasing taxes on housing, the solution lies in increasing supply to fix low vacancy rates, supporting local industries, and promoting smart growth. This approach will ensure a strong economy, lower costs, and a high quality of life for all residents.
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How council should respond to tariff threats from the USA - Letter to Council
Davis Kyle
Davis Kyle urges the Kelowna Mayor and Council to respond more aggressively to the economic threat posed by U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, which he argues are part of a broader protectionist strategy. He criticizes the City’s focus on minor zoning issues while the economy faces a major crisis. Kyle calls for bold, structural reforms to protect jobs and support economic resilience, including tax and zoning reforms, DCC waivers for wood construction, utility bonding, and boosting housing and business competitiveness. He emphasizes that incremental changes won’t suffice—what’s needed is urgent, decisive, and coordinated action across all levels of government.
ARTICLES
How we can take control of our place's financial future.
Contact
Get involved in the conversation
The absolute best way to join the movement is to attend our monthly meetings on the last Tuesday of every month. Second to that is to join the Discord where we share articles and outreach opportunities. Join the Discord for more details or shoot us an email.
Events
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