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VancouverBudgetServices · 2022

Planning and development

In 2022, the City of Vancouver's spending on planning and development was $80.8M — 4.3% of its expenses, +2.5% on 2021.

Source: City of Vancouver, Statement of Financial Information 2025.

$80.8M
spent in 2022
4.3% of expenses · $115 per resident
+2.5% on 2021 · +130% since 2015
About these figures

The five-year review prints each service as one total; what it pays for inside — wages, contracts, grants — is not read for this page.

Each year is read from the newest Statement of Financial Information that prints it; later reports restate earlier years.

Source: City of Vancouver, Statements of Financial Information, five-year statistical review (unaudited; Internet Archive copies): 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025

See also

The other services, 2022

Police protection20% of expenses$388MUtilities19% of expenses$368MParks and recreation12% of expenses$236MEngineering12% of expenses$227MGeneral government12% of expenses$219MFire protection8.7% of expenses$165MArts, culture and community services8.1% of expenses$153MLibrary3.2% of expenses$60.6M

Overview

The City’s budget, 2022All expenses, by service and by kind of cost$1.90B