I am a Registered Professional Planner with more than 20 years of experience in a diverse range of areas including land use and community planning, community‐based climate change mitigation and adaptation planning, asset management planning, and community safety planning. With a focus in engagement and policy development, I bring a climate lens to all project endeavours to increase community resiliency and adaptive capacity.

Young, Anderson provides legal services to local governments throughout British Columbia. Our work reflects the wide variety of issues addressed by local governments, and our lawyers are equipped to provide timely and comprehensive advice on planning and land use management matters including bylaw drafting and interpretation; jurisidiction and procedure; and enforcement.

Eric Vance has almost 40 years of experience as a professional planner, economist. management consultant and educator, specializing in community and regional planning, urban land economics, real estate development and project management. He has conducted hundreds of consulting assignments for a broad range of clients during his career, including many local governments. 

Eric was a senior member of the management consulting group at Coopers & Lybrand Chartered Accountants for eleven years. He then served as Director of Planning for the City of Port Moody for three years prior to starting his own consulting practice in 1995.

Eric is also an Adjunct Professor in the graduate School of Resource & Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University and was formerly an Adjunct Professor in the graduate School of Community & Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.