About Metro Vancouver

​​Metro Vancouver is a diverse organization that plans for and delivers regional utility services, including water, sewers and wastewater treatment, and solid waste management. It also regulates air quality, plans for urban growth, manages a regional parks system, provides affordable housing, and serves as a regional federation. The organization is a federation of 21 municipalities, one electoral area, and one treaty First Nation located in the region of the same name. The organization is made up of​ four separate legal entities, each governed by its own Board of Directors. Board directors are elected officials from member jurisdictions.​​​

In collaboration with our members, Metro Vancouver has three broad roles.

• Serve as a regional federation
  Serve as the main political forum for discussion of significant community issues at the regional level and facilitate the collaboration of members in delivering the services best provided at the regional level.
• Deliver core services
  Provide regional utility services related to drinking water, liquid waste and solid waste to members. Provide regional services, including parks and affordable housing, directly to residents and act as the local government for Electoral Area A.
• Plan for the region
  Carry out planning and regulatory responsibilities related to the three utility services as well as air quality and climate change, regional planning, regional parks, Electoral Area A, affordable housing, labour relations, regional economic prosperity, and regional emergency management.​​​​​​