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Public Hearing – December 14th, 2023 - 1:00pm As this is the last public hearing of the year, Hannah and I had assumed its agenda would be a relatively quiet one. Certainly the first item, an application under the Secured Rental Policy for a five-floor building across from the oldest remaining BC Housing site in... Continue Reading →
Public Hearing – July 13th, 2023 As this is the last public hearing until city council returns from their summer break in September, some may have hoped its agenda would consist of some minor items. Well, Hannah and I have bad news, as like the Duplex amendments in 2018, or last year’s Broadway Plan, there’s... Continue Reading →
1710 and 1730 East Pender Street (Place of Cedars) (Internet Archive)After missing the Cohen Block’s open house, you can imagine how excited Hannah and I were when a friend of ours told us they knew of another meeting for a proposal in the Grandview Woodlands. Immediately, I looked to see what date we needed to... Continue Reading →
Public Hearing – March 9th, 2023 That not a single person spoke in opposition to any item at Tuesday’s public hearing didn’t come as a surprise to me or Hannah, and we expect that trend to continue for at least part of this night. So far, there hasn’t been a bad thing said about either... Continue Reading →
Public Hearing – July 12th, 2022Update: July 14th, 2022 - Thanks to the reporting of Denise Ryan, we have learned the reason why Item#2 was justifiably removed from this agenda, and you can read about this building's complicated past here.As city council scrambles to find dates to hear the remaining public speakers on several controversial... Continue Reading →
2062-2092 E Broadway - MidnightWhen this Urban Design Panel review took place earlier this year, most present were feeling the effects of the vaccine, and probably would have preferred to be resting instead. I imagine it didn’t help that this proposal is for a simple six-floor strata building, which several didn’t even feel needed to... Continue Reading →
Public Hearings – May 17th, 2022, and May 19th, 2022 With over 50 people already registered to speak on the Broadway Plan, it would be easy to forget there are three public hearings scheduled this month. So to simplify things, Hannah and I have combined this week’s zoning bylaw reviews into this post, and we’ll... Continue Reading →
Public Hearing – April 12th, 2022With only ten public hearings scheduled before the civic election, Hannah and I expect this will likely be one of the last calm events this term. The pandemic certainly consumed much of our city council's ambitions, yet they still managed to spend plenty of time debating simple things like Item... Continue Reading →
Public Hearing – January 25th, 2022If we hadn’t included it in a title years ago, this public hearing would have been a great setup for a “Grand Slam” pun. In fact, if it wasn’t for a significant amount of public support, city council would never have considered the policy updates that allow for Item #1.... Continue Reading →
Public Hearing – November 16th 2021(Update – November 19th, 2021 – Despite relatively few speakers, city council only finished Items #1 & #2, meaning you still have time to comment on the rest, which will be heard on November 25th, 2021. While the last public hearing offered some unique stories, including one person’s recollection of... Continue Reading →
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