Vancouver city councillor Tim Stevenson won’t seek another term in the upcoming municipal election and says it’s time for new leadership to take over Vision Vancouver.

“It’s my time to go and let a new generation to come in,” said the five-term councillor who has been working at city hall for the past 16 years.

Stevenson was a co-founding member of Vision Vancouver. He turns 73 in 2018 and his public announcement comes in the same week that Mayor Gregor Robertson said he would