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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 – 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 – December 2nd, 2020Update 12/03/20 – The public hearing has recessed, and will resume on December 10th at 6pm. As such, one can still send in correspondence or sign up to speak on Items 6 & 7.Considering the difficulties we’ve all experienced this year, Hannah and I are grateful Vancouver’s second last public hearing... Continue Reading →
2924 Venables (Alice Saunders House)When Hannah and I started writing City Duo, we wanted to put some good into the world by preventing misconceptions over our city’s growth. The planned expansion of this senior’s social housing building has already been the victim of that, as it was met by protests when it was first introduced.... Continue Reading →
January 21st, 2020 Public Hearing - Update 01/22/20 - The public hearing has recessed and will resume on January 28th at 3pm. As such, one can still send in correspondence or sign up to speak on Items 5 & 6. The first public hearing of 2020 finally tests what the relatively new Moderate Income Rental Housing... Continue Reading →
2735 East Hastings Street It's no secret that city staff are having a hard time keeping up with the many conflicting priorities of our elected officials. No sooner do they start acting to address one problem, when another directive is issued, forcing their attention elsewhere. Which might be part of the reason why this proposal... Continue Reading →
November 5th, 2019 Public Hearing - The announcement of an 82 floor skyscraper near Burnaby's Lougheed Town Centre station was the big story last week, but the fate of two similar projects in Vancouver might be this week's. That said, the only thing Items 3 and 4 have common with that development are their proximity... Continue Reading →
2924 Venables Street – Alice Saunders House Similar to my recent flight to attend a family member's funeral, I had a window seat on my way to this open house. As a result, I knew that Darren and I's prediction that the Vancouver Tenants Union would protest this event were accurate, as I could see... Continue Reading →
2924 Venables Street - Alice Saunders House Admittedly, Hannah and I were a little torn on whether to write this post. While we enjoy sharing information about upcoming pre-application events, it almost feels unnecessary when the notice is openly available on Twitter. Then again, as we only learned about it when we were sent a... Continue Reading →
3600 & 3680 East Hastings Street Darren and I have certainly had some “unique” experiences since we began chronicling our city's various engagement events. I like to think we have become pretty good at telling when a proposal is going to be meet with a nasty reception. That said, as the tone at the pre-application... Continue Reading →
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