Like most Vancouverites I’m enjoying the best summer I can remember! Day after day of clear skies, warm sun and beautiful outdoor times. Unfortunately, this recent lengthy bout of consistently dry, sunny weather is the result of cataclysmic changes in global climate — cataclysmic changes that may very well spell the end of our species…
Category: Planning
Whatever happened to equality?
As we all know, developers make windfall profits every time their property is rezoned by Vancouver City Council to increase density. Many years ago, Vancouver’s City Council of the day wisely decided that henceforth any rezoning over a certain size would come with a very positive requirement — the developer would have to designate 20…
All we’re asking for is a little r-e-s-p-e-c-t
City watchers are still buzzing about a meeting held behind closed doors last month at UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning. It was all about what Michael Geller describes as Vancouver city hall’s “diminishing respect for the importance of urban design and planning.” The biggest deal breaker was the re-zoning application for the contentious…
Not So HandyDART
A vote for COPE is a vote for more buses and lower fares for everyone. To make transit more accessible, COPE will implement an identifying card or sticker for riders with disabilities to display when using transit. COPE will also advocate to expand HandyDART service, and make HandyDART a direct subsidiary of Translink rather than…
Underground Skytrain Oxymoron Puts Vancouver on the Wrong Track
This August marked the 5th birthday of the most expensive transit project in Vancouver’s history, the Canada Line. As thousands of commuters wait too long to board the 99 B-Line to UBC, Vision Vancouver and select media blow their horns about the “wildly successful” Canada Line, hoping to drown out the controversy and reckless spending the construction…
Kirk LaPointe’s Flip-Flop
Today, I would like to address the issue of transit along the Broadway corridor. As we all know, Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision Vancouver colleagues are promoting a subway down Broadway out to UBC. That’s pretty much all we hear from them these days — let’s build a subway down Broadway, the developers want…
Let’s Not Let the City be Railroaded Again – Tim Louis on Expropriation of Arbutus Corridor
It’s not often that I agree with our current mayor, but when Gregor Robertson recently accused the Canadian Pacific (CP) of “bullying tactics” in its efforts to force the city to pay well above market for the long contested Arbutus Corridor, bulldozing some of the community gardens that city residents have nurtured along the…