Langley City, British Columbia

Langley City is a compact 10-square-kilometre city in Metro Vancouver, surrounded by the much larger Township of Langley, which is a separate municipality. The City of Langley runs planning and building permits, business and dog licences, the Community Safety Team (bylaw enforcement), roads and snow clearing, water distribution, sewers and drainage, contracted curbside garbage, organics and recycling collection, Langley City Fire Rescue Service, the emergency program, parks, Timms Community Centre, Douglas Recreation Centre and Al Anderson Memorial Pool. Policing is the Langley RCMP detachment, shared with the Township. Metro Vancouver supplies the drinking water, treats the sewage and runs the regional transfer stations and parks; TransLink runs the buses and HandyDART and is extending SkyTrain's Expo Line to Langley Centre; the library is the Fraser Valley Regional Library; health care is Fraser Health (Langley Memorial Hospital); and marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences are provincial.