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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 – November 16th, 2023Two years ago, dozens of letters flooded city council as supporters and opponents of a six floor rental application on Arbutus Street clashed over their community’s future. Yet on today’s agenda Item #1, a five floor rental building on the block directly to the north has barely drawn a peep.... Continue Reading →
Public Hearing – April 27th, 2023 With the grey dreary skies, and chill in the air, it hasn’t really felt like spring this year, which thankfully the weather forecast suggests should change this Thursday. However, this evening won’t offer Item #1 any reprieve, as this mix of market, and below-market rental homes remain limited by... Continue Reading →
Public Hearing – April 25th, 2023 While Item #1 should have been the biggest news story of this night, as it’s the first four floor rental building on a side-street to reach city council, Item #2 may steal its spotlight. To be fair, the former does have its detractors, like a neighbour who prefers continuing... Continue Reading →
Updated - May 19th, 2024 Since 2009, various policies have been crafted in Vancouver with the intent of incentivizing the construction of new rental homes as as very few have been built after the 1980s. While Hannah and I have written about some of these largely failed measures, this article is meant to track the... Continue Reading →
Public Hearing – June 17th, 2021 This public hearing’s agenda will let me recap one of my favourite open house experiences, and one that Hannah still rightly scolds me for attending, as I was literally bleeding internally. Even with the post surgical fog, I’ll never forget the shocked faces in the room, though not every... Continue Reading →
4683 Arbutus Street (Quilchena Gardens) It is very fortunate Canuck was just made a federally-protected bird, as it seems Darren and I will be forced to eat a bit of crow. Based on our past experiences in this area, we genuinely believed this would be one of the worst behaved consultation events ever held in Vancouver.... Continue Reading →
4683 Arbutus Street (Quilchena Gardens) Admittedly Hannah and I are both looking forward to the annual pause that comes to our city in the month of August. Out of respect to those who are vacationing, looking after children home on Summer Break, or those just wanting to spend a day at the beach, almost no civic... Continue Reading →
2133 Nanton Avenue & 4189 Yew Street (Arbutus Centre Block C & Block D) When it was first proposed in 1968, the Arbutus Centre was planned to become one of Western Canada's largest shopping malls. Instead, it drew widespread neighbourhood opposition. Eventually a scaled back version, which has become the community's centrepiece, was approved, and a leading... Continue Reading →
4188 Yew Street - Arbutus Center Block A Hannah and I hate when the city schedules multiple events on the same day as, is in order to experience both, we often have to split up. So I was curious if I would have enough time to attend this UDP meeting and join Hannah at an... Continue Reading →
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