The Platform.

Port Moody’s housing affordability crisis is real. Rents are too high, ownership is out of reach for most young families, and for too long the city approved towers of market condos while the community waited for something different. Meghan hasn’t waited.

Under her leadership, 328 non-market rental apartments are now under construction at Coronation Park — backed by $140 million in BC Housing funding. 865 purpose-built rental homes were negotiated at Moody Centre with a grocery store, daycares, and a pedestrian overpass to Rocky Point Park built into the same deal. These are not promises. They are under construction.

Port Moody faces a provincial mandate to build near transit. The question is not whether growth happens. The question is whether the community shapes it, or has it happen to them. Meghan’s record shows she shapes it.

The origin of Meghan’s political career is a park. In 1994 she was a young mother who fought to protect Bert Flynn Park. She didn’t start a petition — she ran for office. That determination carries her today: nearly thirty years on council, and since 2022, the mayoralty.

Port Moody’s parks, trails, waterfront, and green corridors are what make this city different. Rocky Point Park is the heart of the community — and Meghan negotiated the pedestrian overpass connecting Moody Centre directly to it into a developer deal. The fund to purchase and expand that park is growing from community amenity contributions she negotiated into every major project that has been approved.

The daylighting of Slaughterhouse Creek — buried underground for decades — is being restored as part of the PCI development. Rooftop green spaces. Creek-side trails. Riparian corridors. These are not amenities added at the end of a negotiation. They are conditions of approval.

Traffic congestion is the concern Meghan hears most consistently from residents — and she takes it seriously. Barnet Highway, St. Johns Street, the Ioco Road corridor — these are the daily reality for Port Moody families.

Meghan’s position is consistent and has been since 1996: traffic is a regional problem that requires regional solutions. She works with TransLink and Metro Vancouver on Barnet Highway congestion, advocating for the Murray-Clark connector and transit-on-demand programs that make SkyTrain and bus connections more usable for more residents.

Infrastructure must be built before — or at minimum alongside — the density that demands it. That’s why every major development approved under her mayoralty includes infrastructure contributions as a condition of approval. The $43.2 million in infrastructure upgrades built into the Coronation Park deal. The servicing work built into the PCI Moody Centre approval. These are the direct result of a mayor who knows that growth without infrastructure is a broken promise.

Port Moody has been primarily a city where people sleep, not where they work. That is changing — and Meghan pushes for it every day. A city where residents can walk or take transit to work, where local businesses have customers all day, and where the commercial tax base reduces the burden on homeowners: that is the Port Moody Meghan is building.

The PCI development at Moody Centre is the most concrete example. 56,000 square feet of retail and commercial space. An estimated 284 jobs. A grocery store that serves both the new neighbourhood and the existing one. $2.1 million in new annual property tax revenue. These came not from a policy paper — from a negotiation.

Murray Street is Port Moody’s most distinctive economic asset — the arts, dining, brewery, and light industrial corridor that draws visitors from across the region. Meghan protects it and pushes to keep its character intact. The Burrard Thermal site represents a generational opportunity for good jobs on the waterfront.