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More favourite West End places
My little stint of pretending to live in the West End is over. Back to my more familiar East Van turf. I’ll miss places and views like these. The gardens are under the Burrard Bridge. I think it must...
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Sidewalk history
I found another of these favourite sidewalk tags the other day, this time in Mount Pleasant, which is quite far from the Clark Drive and Prior St. area where I’ve seen the others (pictures here). This...
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Highlights from the 2015 Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
I finally made it to Vancouver’s Mini Maker Faire. Cool event – interesting to have the more industrial, manufacturing, and technical stuff in the same place as the crafty/fibre stuff that attracts me....
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In favour of purpose-built rental…
Remarks at public hearing for rezoning of 3365 Commercial Drive (and other lots) June 23, 2016 Link to video of hearing. My remarks begin at 1:20:25 Good evening mayor and council. Thank you for this...
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Support for two rezonings to allow for purpose-built rental units
At tonight’s (July 12) meeting, Vancouver city council will be considering two applications to rezone land for purpose-built rental housing. The addresses of the sites are 2805 E. Hastings and 445...
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Mid-summer in Strathcona Community Garden
Filed under: Community gardens, Urbanism Tagged: community gardens, East Van, flowers, garden, placemaking, public space, walking
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Youth in care deserve better as they become adults
As the May 9th provincial election approaches, one of the policy issues I hope will get some attention is the question of extending financial support to young people in the foster-care system, after...
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Housing tenure statistics for the City of Vancouver, 1951 to 2011
We’ve seen much interesting information emerge from the 2016 Census so far, but the data I’ve been most eager for is still to be released – this Wednesday. Those statistics are on housing tenure – and...
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Learnings from Housing Central 2017
I’ve followed the issue of Temporary Modular Housing (TMH) in Vancouver fairly closely, so was glad for the opportunity to learn more about it as part of the annual Housing Central conference in...
View ArticleCandidates panel: Housing Policy in the 2018 Vancouver Civic Election – time...
Housing Policy in 2018 Vancouver Civic Election: A Candidates’ Panel Hosted by the UBC Sauder School of Business on September 12, 2018 at the Fairmont Pacific Hotel | Total run time: 1:57:09 I...
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