Graffiti removal: In addition to City graffiti removal, HxBIA works with two contractors to remove graffiti from private property. Please use our incident reporting tool to request graffiti removed from your business or property free of charge.
Neighbourhood cleaning: We also work with Mission Possible, United We Can, Coast Mental Health, and the City of Vancouver to provide cleaning initiatives in our streets, sidewalks, and laneways every day of the week. To report any incidents of cleaning, including feces, litter, drug paraphernalia, large garbage removal, etc, please use our incident reporting tool.
The following are City services that HxBIA has advocated strongly for, and if members have questions about this or feel they are not happening/enough/etc. Click Here to contact us.
Core City Sanitation Services
• Nightly abandoned material collection
• Nightly waste bin emptying (supplemented during the day if required)
• Nightly sweeping and lane flushing
• Daily Urban Issues support (structures, tent, debris removal)
Other Micro-Cleaning
• 4 shifts/month from Coast Mental Health or Mission Possible (various weekdays), directed by HxBIA.
• United We Can – Micro-cleaning services route through Chinatown, Gastown, Hastings Crossing and Strathcona (7 days/week)
• Mission Possible – Micro-cleaning of the northeast corner of the BIA (1 day/week, Wednesday AM)
• Coast – Micro-cleaning of the southwest corner of the BIA (1 day/2 weeks, various weekdays)
Feces Collection Program
• Mission Possible – Proactive feces collection (1 day/week, Friday AM). Reactive feces collections (5 days/week, Monday to Friday). Informed by 311 and VanConnect app reports.
Plazas/Parklets
Mission Possible – Micro-cleaning of the following parklets 7x/week in the summer, 3x/week in the winter:
• Evelynne Saller Centre
• DTES Women’s Centre
• Aboriginal Front Door Society
• PHS Outpatient Clini
Free Paint: Thanks to a partnership the City of Vancouver has with Dulux Paints, Vancouver property owners and tenants can receive free exterior paint for the removal of existing graffiti. Click here for more information.
Graffiti Wipes: We have a limited supply of Graffiti Wipes. They come in the form of canisters, much like hand sanitizing wipes, and individual pouches. Typically the wipes remove small tags that have been spray-painted or drawn on surfaces such as walls, windows, light poles and utility boxes for example. If you feel this can assist you in dealing with smaller tags etc on your property then Contact us and we will get some to you.