Okay, blogsters, here’s the kind of story that’s made for a niche audience — the kind that most of the voting public isn’t paying attention to right now, but which you, dear political junkies, are intensely interested in. So, to recap the story I wrote today – COPE is undergoing major transformations as many long-time […]

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As I’ve mentioned in other tweets and posts, I keep hearing commercial brokers and analysts talk about the desperate need for industrial land near Deltaport, i.e. agricultural land.(For a sample of the kind of chatter going on, take a look at this.) Others have pooh-poohed that, saying no, there is no likelihood. But the talk […]

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For those who missed my scintillating tweets on Monday night, when I was at the Vision Vancouver fundraiser at Floata, here’s a recap, plus a bit more about the 650-person event, which included some singing by the Jewish contingent and people imitating salmon swimming upstream at a certain point. Designated talking point of the evening […]

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The city put out the strangest report (approved Tuesday) I’ve seen in a while, where it spelled out what the maximum rents could be for units where developers are getting exempted from the usual developer fees (about $140 a square metre for most of the city; some specific areas have slightly different ones.) The rents […]

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Must be some high-fiving along Main about this.

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There was an announcement earlier this year that the Biltmore (or, what used to be the Biltmore at 12th and Kingsway and has until recently been a Howard Johnson’s) was going to be transformed into “transitional” housing for Vancouver’s homeless. At the time, the only queries I got on Twitter were whether that would affect […]

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Interesting to see what’s happening out in Port Moody, where a newly constituted neighbourhood group is now raising questions about the city’s entire Official Community Plan. I was wondering if there might be some of this starting when I went out to Metro Vancouver a few weeks ago and listened to presentations about “regional context […]

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Council approved the West End overall plan Wednesday. There was lots of interesting information to mine in that report — the plan for where new towers will go (on the fringes, away from the interior where residents have objected strongly to any new development), the spending plan for new or refurbished community facilities, the little […]

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There was news two weeks ago that PHS Community services was having its finances reviewed by BC Housing. Now Vancouver Coastal Health has confirmed that it is also auditing the group. My story here and below. WARNING: If you have any information you feel you have to share, do it in a private email to […]

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Posting for a friend: Urban events   PIBC PlanTalk – Availability, Utilization, and Intensification of Industrial Lands – Nov 19 http://www.pibc.bc.ca/events/pibc-south-coast-chapter-15 Metro Vancouver Dialogues – Great City Making Demands Innovation – Nov 19 + 22 + 28 + Dec 10 http://www.metrovancouver.org/REGION/DIALOGUES/Pages/default.aspx Vancouver Board of Trade – Chair Greg Moore, Long Term Infrastructure Planning: Sustaining a […]

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