Peter Waldkirch 華彼德
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Research lawyer. Come for the Vancouver city council livetweets, stay for the Star Trek references. Squeezebox disbursements included.
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Making it so that just about the only legal place to build a rental apartment is on top of an older apartment is dumb, cruel, terrible policy
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lol next opponent starts off with a land acknowledgement...before saying she opposes this First Nations led development on land they own
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Housing was the big issue for Vancouver voters.
And we elected a Mayor who had nothing to say about housing. No plan, no ideas...nothing.
I'd say we get the housing crisis we deserve, but it's the people excluded by the system who are harmed the most.
Status quo reigns
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A Michael Scott moment from Vancouver 's mayor:
Ken Sim: "I'm just basing it on my own background and how I feel..."
Reporter: "Hold on. You're basing this on a feeling, not because you've crunched any numbers?"
Sim: "No no. Look. It's not my job to crunch numbers."
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This morning a man in Langley targeted homeless people in a shooting spree, killing two.
Soon, Vancouver Council will continue the 5th day of a hearing on whether to allow a supportive housing proposal.
In our society, the very right of people in poverty to live is on trial.
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Vancouver council just eliminated parking minimums for all uses, across the entire city!
This is important for both housing and climate action.
I know I can be hard on ABC and the planners, but this is a really great step and everyone involved deserves kudos for passing this!
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Just saw a car driver almost murder a pedestrian in a crosswalk by taking a right turn at speed. The ped kicked the car and good for them but why oh why do we tolerate this routine violence from drivers and why oh why do our politicians and planners do NOTHING about it??
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It boggles my mind that anyone could think this is a planning success.
It took about 14 HOURS of extremely expensive public hearing time, 2 rezoning applications, 2 architectural plans, over 4 years...to approve *24 rental homes.*
24 homes! No wonder we're in a housing crisis!
Council initially rejected 4575 Granville St. rental townhomes next to Vancouver Hospice. Revised project came back as win, not massive single family home as some dramatized:
✅ unanimous vote
✅ 24 vs 21 homes
✅ less parking=less GHGs
✅ more sensitive to & supported by hospice
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The
@bcndp
have increased financial support for homeowners, so that people who own a home worth $1,975,000 qualify for direct $$ from the state. Meanwhile, the shelter rate for housing remains at the profoundly inadequate $375/month, where it has been since 2007. Sickening.
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The fact that Canadian media regularly and uncritically laps up whatever the Fraser Institute says is such an embarrassment.
The judge concluded that the Fraser Institute’s expert is “minimally qualified as an expert.”
After looking at his qualifications, the judge said the expert made “embellishments of his experience” relating to claims about “being an expert witness” and doing “non-partisan work.”
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Next opponent: "it just comes down to feelings". Giant towers will "stick out like sore thumbs". Understands that "our Indigenous brothers and sisters may well feel Europeans erected unwelcome structures on wild and gorgeous nature", but "two wrongs don't make a right"
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"Bikes & cars will no longer be physically separated".
In a park.
What an embarrassing, humiliating step backwards for the city. While other cities are moving forward to support active transportation and climate action, we're moving actively backwards.
📢 The majority of Stanley Park’s temporary bike lane has now been removed. Crews have removed the barriers & line markings along Park Drive and bikes & cars will no longer be physically separated.
Visit: 1/2
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Ken Sim be like:
Speaking of Mayor office, transparency, & infuriating behaviour
This was a board room where Councillors did City business, met delegations, etc
It was inexplicably expropriated for “regular operations” by Mayor office in January
Last week forgot to lock door:
It’s now a gym?
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The Jericho Lands Policy is at council!
I think it could be one of the best n'hoods in Vancouver. Indigeneous-led, car-lite, close to the beach, to the City, to UBC...amazing stuff.
But NIMBYs have fought hard against it. With over 60 speakers...this could get ugly.
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The fact that changing 2 lanes of cars (same direction) to 1 lane of cars through a *park* has caused a multi-month freakout involving park board members, a city councilor, and the local media does not bode well for our society's ability to mitigate climate change.*
#vanpoli
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The left we need: we give huge tax and other advantages to home owners, we should level the playing field with renters.
The left we get: let's give home owners more public $$$ 🥰🥰🥰
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This vote from ABC is really depressing. It just makes no sense that we need two lanes for cars through a park. Why isn't one enough?
What a demonstration of how insatiable car culture is. It's not enough for cars to have access - there needs to be nothing left for anyone else
A bike lane in Stanley Park will be no more following a vote from the Vancouver Park Board that will see it removed immediately.
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Concillor Bligh regarding people who own property worth over $3,000,000: "They don't have any extraordinary wealth except they happen to have land that has increased in value."
THAT'S WEAAAALLLLTTTTTHHHHHH
LAND WEALTH IS LIKE THE MOST ANCIENT FORM OF WEALTH
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Vancouver (pop ~740k) has almost 1000 zones. We've basically given up on "zoning" as governing, yknow, "zones". We mostly do (as
@OwenInVan
put it once) "lotting", coming up with bespoke rules for individual buildings.
Here's downtown --each of those "CDs" is a separate zone!
Ottawa, population 1 million, has 120 residential zones. Japan, population 123 million, has 10. Zoning reform can’t happen soon enough.
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Wow. ABC councilor Sarah Kirby-Yung today asked about "restoring two way access" for cars to Beach Ave to reduce car traffic, and raises the ludicrous idea that the bike lane is "working against climate because you have all these cars backing up". :o
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❌ Stanley Park bike lane
❌ Broadway bike lane
❌ Capital funding for bike lanes planned long ago
✅ Restoring two lanes of cars on Beach Ave
I'm starting to notice a pattern...
Seems pretty clear that the only part that ABC cared about was re-introducing two way car traffic to Stanley Park, even though that will increase car traffic and rat running and makes a bike lane in Stanley Park itself one day less likely.
Another grim vote from Ken Sim's party
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The housing crisis has crushed the life plans of entire generations now and it's only getting worse for young persons. I don't think progressives really get how dangerous and destabilizing that could be, and how someone like Poilievre could capitalize on it. We need to wake up.
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And the Jericho Lands Policy Statement passes!
Jericho is set to become one of the most vibrant, exciting neighbourhoods in the entire city. Congrats to the Musqueam, Squamish) and Tsleil-Waututh nations. This is a great day for Vancouver!
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I had to compel it through an FOI request, but I got the list of "recognized neighbourhood groups"!
In addition to the Park Board, School Board, and an internal DTES planner, here are the city's "recognized neighbourhood groups" that are given special notice and influence:
The city apparently maintains a secret list of "Recognized Neighborhood Groups" and gives them a privileged role in processing development permit applications.
I requested a list of which groups these are, and the city has refused.
I will will file an FOI to compel the city.
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Shockingly, the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre by VGH forces people to take off their N95 mask and put on a flimsy blue mask, in the middle of a busy lobby.
@VCHhealthcare
, this seems ridiculous at this point in the pandemic. We know COVID is airborne. What's up?
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A literal 4 minute walk from the Commercial-Broadway Skytrain station the city's land use only allows for a two-dwelling detached house.
This is an obscene act of climate arson, so I wrote in to register my opposition.
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This is a disturbing pattern of behaviour from Ken Sim. He's pretty clearly using petty complaints to try to bully Christine Boyle.
Looks like public worries about Sim hiring people like Jason Kenney's hyper-partisan flak guy were spot on.
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim filed a SECOND code of conduct complaint at Clr Christine Boyle?! Next level pettiness. Pretty blatant attempt to silence the one councillor willing to challenge him. Whatever “swagger” is, this isn’t it
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This is like "bambi meets godzilla, innocent nature assaulted by a monstrosity."
wow, even for the NIMBYs this was something else
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Our national media is calling it like it is: under ABC, Vancouver is moving backwards.
The days when Vancouver was an urban leader are gone. We've been coasting on yesterday's accomplishments for a long time. Now it's just parking parking cars cars.
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Staff are gonna tear up the Yew Street plaza next week.
Seriously: when did we become this pathetic as a city? Pedestrianizing a short stretch by the beach was too hard for our planners, and as a result they're just...giving up.
What's wrong with us?
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Planners are giving a presentation to council right now, and it seems like the main focus of planning for the foreseeable future are...
VILLAGES
Gotta say, I hate the planner's fetishization of viLlAgES. Vancouver is a city! We won't fix our housing shortage with "villages"!
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One of the most successful bike lanes in all of Canada or the US...and Kirby-Yung buys into ridiculous arguments that its bad for climate because cars should go vroom vroom easier and asks about re-dedicating it to car use. Just shocking.
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NIMBYs always use "human scale" to oppose tall buildings. But tall buildings let more people live close together, which supports transit, small biz, access to amenities -- THAT is "human scale" on a HORIZONTAL perspective. Because now you can walk around your own neighbourhood!
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This story makes me *angry*.
For a lot of reasons. But this from Brian Peers really gets to me. I live less than a 10 min away. Brian acts like he speaks for me. He spreads falsehoods. He threatens the city with a lawsuit.
This is in my opinion morally reprehensible behaviour.
A story worth reading by
@fumano
about a proposed 8-child daycare near Douglas Park being rejected by the city due to complaints by neighbours
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Ken Sim is facing a big test. A 5 floor rental in Dunbar was at public hearing last night, and the NIMBYs came out in force. ABC seemed to be listening closely to them.
The vote is tomorrow. If ABC meddles with the rezoning it will be the city's biggest NIMBY vote in years.
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.
@KenSimCity
is using hundreds of thousands of public dollars that was meant for BUILDING bike lanes...and using it to DESTROY bike lanes.
Whether from an active transportation, climate change, or fiscal prudence perspective - this is a shocking decision
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When the city devoted 1 out of 2 vehicle lanes to bikers, car drivers had a full on multi-year freak out, and I'm starting to think the point wasn't to make life better for drivers...but to make it worse for cyclists
It doesn't seem like getting rid of the bike lane in Stanley Park is having the amazing congestion reduction benefits as anticipated...
@angelahaer
@sarahkirby_yung
@PeterMeiszner
@pwaldkirch
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Wow, the shortage of space at City Hall and spending all that money to rent rooms in other buildings must mean space for official City Hall business is a precious resource that shouldn't be frivolously squandered for private, personal use...oh
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WOW
Metro Van just gave a big middle finger to
@SeanFraserMP
and ignore his request to delay their dramatic increase in dev fees.
Metro Van just chose to walk away from Housing Accelerator Funds.
A disastrous decision that shows why our local govt is a big part of the problem
This demonstrates an important dynamic in housing policy.
Local govts cater to people who are comfortably housed and have an incentive to give them a veto on new housing.
But senior govts feel the pain of dysfunctional regions and systems -- and can benefit by fixing them!
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
The best way to get radicalized on how bad our housing consultation system is, is to watch housing consultations.
Susan Scobie, "concerned homeowner":
"Because of big idea
#2
, 'equity', all areas of the city, even Shaughnessy, will include low-income housing and they will all look identicial. So much for aspiring for something better in life. We’ll all be equally poor."
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One thing this election has given us:
Accountability.
With clear control of council/park/school boards, Ken Sim will be accountable for not only public safety, but rents, housing approvals, policy, and more.
He wanted power? He has it. Progressives need to hold him accountable
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Saying that restoring two-way vehicle traffic to Stanley Park is "for" future transit, when there are absolutely no plans or even a hint of interest in using that lane for anything but private cars, is extremely politically cynical.
Here's more detail on the council-approved plan to restore two-way traffic on Beach Ave. west of Denman. Includes:
✅restored two-way traffic allowing for future transit
✅new, separated AAA bike lane 🚴
✅new pedestrian pathway on the south side
👉A win for everyone.
#vanpoli
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Anyone else get the feeling that a lot of the opposition to downtown Vancouver congestion pricing comes from people who can't even imagine themselves using public transit?
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Here's how I see the fed parties on housing atm:
Fed NDP: clueless, confused
CPC: big talk, less substance. Talk of cutting direct investment in affordable homes is 100% wrong
Liberals: finally getting serious. The Housing Accelerator fund is being used to great effect.
Reporter: "How do you make housing more affordable?"
Jagmeet Singh: "By making 100% of the housing affordable."
Reporter: "How though?"
Singh: "I've talked to a whole bunch of people who told me 'I can't afford luxury condos"
Singh brings nothing to the table on this subject.
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Mayor Ken Sim declared a conflict on the motion, "Vancouver Plan Implementation – Land Use Policy Rationalization" because of "close friends that own significant property throughout that area".
That's...kinda concerning??? This is basic city planning stuff.
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Another year, another cycle of outrage over switching a single lane of road from cars to bikes, another reminder we are nowhere close to getting real about the climate crisis, an existential threat to our society.
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The next opponent has a video too. It's a professionally made video, probably from the Jericho Coalition, complete with spooky horror movie background music. It's amazing. "Three times denser than Hong Kong".
You come across anti-Asian city dog whistles like this a lot.
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Vancouver staff believe Vancouver is building enough housing.
It is shocking how out of touch our planning and political leadership is.
We're in a lot of trouble.
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Vancouver's "Local Street Bikeways" are such a sad joke. This is totally typical -- totally unsuitable for encouraging mode shift and safe travel.
You can see a cyclist on the sidewalk on the right because the car there almost hit him while reversing to park.
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The idea that these are being described as "no brainers" while it's still illegal to build even a 4 or 6 floor apartment in the allegedly "residential" areas around many schools shows that the problem isn't technology -- it's municipal policy. Which Mayor Sim could fix easily.
Ken Sim floats the idea of:
- 3D printed homes (says he saw it done in Japan, could be built in a week would cut down on construction waste by 90%)
- Putting 10 storeys of housing on top of every school getting a seismic upgrade
"these are no-brainers"
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It's bizarre to me that people would get all NIMBY about Granville and Broadway of all places. And yet, here we are: a proposal for rental housing (20% below market!) right above the future South Granville Skytrain station is at risk. These homes need support, links & info below!
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ABC's two major active transportation decision so far have been:
-removing the Stanley Park bike lane
-killing the Broadway mobility lane
Some of them talk a big talk about 15-minute cities, supporting active transpo, blah blah blah. But votes matter more than spin.
#vanpoli
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My Most Important Council Vote series continues with:
Boyle's motion to cut red tape on non-profit/social/co-op housing!
This was a real litmus test for councilors. What do they care about more: affordable housing, or coddling NIMBYs?
Only Stewart, Boyle, and Swanson passed.
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Really disappointing that, even after all this, an ABC councilor is spreading incorrect information.
Nothing is "already" happening in Shaughnessy -- there is no policy in place allowing more housing there. It is firmly off-limits, a preserve for elite estates only.
@__cosmopolite__
Unanimous support means they are good motions. Density in shaughnessy is already happening
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AND BOYLE'S MOTION PASSES!!
Holy crud I didn't have high hopes for this. This is a huge win for the whole city. Bottom line: as we deal with the climate crisis, EVERY major street needs to have options for non-car travel.
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Yay, but also....it was short-sighted to only build half a subway line and not just keep diggin' all the way to UBC. The "final leg" of her journey, ending at the Arbutus station, will also be the final leg of rapid transit for hundreds of thousands of people for years to come 😢
This past Friday afternoon, TBM Phyllis launched from South Granville Station! She is now on the final leg of her journey to Cypress St, where she will be dismantled and removed.
Here’s a shot of Phyllis during her pit stop at South Granville Station.
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Deleted a tweet because
@BillTieleman
threatened me with a defamation lawsuit.
For those who have been following his involvement in the discussions around the Jericho Lands proposal, I think his conduct speaks for itself.
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I feel like an important skill for an elected politician is to be able to take policy criticisms about your voting record without lashing out at volunteer public safety groups.
@VisionZeroYVR
Very sad to see loss of life here. Also sad to see once again this group chooses to pick a fight and spread misinformation. This helps do nothing. You are making assumptions that r once again completely incorrect because you don’t have the facts. Zero Credibility.
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The city apparently maintains a secret list of "Recognized Neighborhood Groups" and gives them a privileged role in processing development permit applications.
I requested a list of which groups these are, and the city has refused.
I will will file an FOI to compel the city.
someone please figure out the full list of Recognized Neighborhood (sic) Groups according to Vancouver planning staff. might require another FOI
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Pretty interesting how there's only one Provincially-designated transit-oriented area west of Arbutus huh.
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The upcoming Vancouver election is important. Our housing crisis is worse than ever. The last council wasted its time.
I'm going to review what I think are the most important votes.
First up: a below market rental apt in Kitsilano. Hardwick, Carr, and Swanson voted against it.
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Ya love to see it! 🥳
The housing crisis isn't an accident -- it's an outcome. An outcome of decades of policy designed to restrict housing and sacrifice the future for the comfort of existing home owners.
This won't solve everything, but it's a step in the right direction!
British Columbia just became a leader in Canada by passing Transit Oriented Development legislation! 🍁
Building more homes near transit is good for people, communities, and helps make the most of transit, infrastructure and services. 🚆
🧵[1/3]
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Planners have confirmed that, after being forced by the Province to legalize plexes in 1st Shaughnessy, they'll severely restrict them.
0.5 FSR that close to Broadway & Downtown is planning malpractice. A slap in the face from planners to everyone suffering in the housing crisis
The Provincial multiplex guidelines allow for homes around 1.8 FSR.
Provincial legislation now requires the city to allow 'plexes in Shaughnessy, but the city is proposing to limit them to **0.5 FSR**.
This is shocking and should be ringing alarm bells in the Province.
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Imagine how much better business in Granville Island would be if we doubled the number of shops by reclaiming space from cars.
This is what I think of when I think of Granville Island - parking lots, kids sandwiched between moving and parked cars, pedestrians dodging drivers...
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Vancouver NIMBYs thinking about:
🏗️ 49 storey towers approved in West Point Grey
📈 Safeway MegaTowers revised for more height
😍 Senakw being built as we speak
🚌 Transit oriented areas enshrined in provincial law
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ABC is obviously feeling the heat over killing Temporary Modular Housing. But here's the bottom line: they haven't shown housing leadership at all. They have introduced ZERO land use reforms.
The only actual policy in the works, multiplexes, was Kennedy Stewart's policy 🤷
Ken Sim and ABC Councillors are delivering permanent, quality housing for Vancouver's most vulnerable. Their leadership in tackling housing challenges is commendable. With their 3-3-3-1 plan, social and supportive housing will be approved faster.
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@Deannormanjones
@BobRae48
@MaximeBernier
That's an after the fact rationalization. WASPs back then certainly didn't think that papists like the Irish (or the French!) shared the same basic values, for example. They were slaves to Rome who were against individual liberty of the English tradition.
Your take is ahistoric
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UBC is surrounded by amazing land, close to the beach, under direct Provincial control -- zoned for MANSIONS.
During a housing crisis. 🤯
It's unconscionable, and should be a big issue. Learn more with
@ahvancouver
's new walking tour this Sunday!
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Zoning was designed to inflate home prices and enforce racial & class segregation. Along the way it gave us climate-destroying sprawl.
Refusing to liberalize zoning isn't resisting capitalism, or sticking it to developers; it's just perpetuating a rotten, broken, unjust system.
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Brian Montague made one of his rare appearances at council today...and he broke with his party to vote against updating efficiency for water heaters!
That's like the most mild climate action a city can take. Even the rest of ABC, with their terrible climate record, supported it!
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ABC seems really defensive about their vote against legalizing apartments in Shaughnessy, but condescendingly saying "do you even know what you are talking about?" to
@helenlw_
, an actual expert in housing who I trust to be well-informed much more than Lenny, is pretty gross imo
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Many opponents to the Broadway Plan said they opposed because of concrete towers, which they say are contrary to climate action.
Let's be clear: this is misinformation. Dan Kammen, a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, directly dismissed this nonsense:
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The
@bcndp
are treating high gas prices as an urgent crisis demanding immediate relief. Vancouver's Climate Emergency Action Plan is in shambles after a key part of it, the Parking Program, was killed.
The world burns and all we care about is keeping driving cheap and easy.
BREAKING: simultaneous freakish heat in the Arctic and Antarctic described as 'impossible' and 'unthinkable' by scientists as abrupt climate change accelerates wildly 🧵
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It's important to not succumb to despair. But when I see things like this, I really don't know if we're gonna make it.
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Ok, I've already tweeted about it, but this interview with Hardwick is really something.
There's a lot to unpack, but this jumps out. Why do you think she sees her "family's long-term church, generationally" as "community-based", while the Lu'ma Native Housing society is not? 🤔
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A Bway bike lane is, by far, the biggest specific step this council has taken to enable non-car travel.
This is good for the safety of workers delivering food along Broadway. It's good for responding to climate crisis. It's good for the city.
Thank you
@christineeboyle
!!
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That Vancouver is building more detached houses than Surrey and Burnaby, but fewer apartments than they are, is a profound planning failure. It's a housing, climate, and economic disaster. Every politician and planner supporting this disastrous state of affairs should be ashamed.
Surrey and Burnaby beating Vancouver in housing starts to far this year
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ABC is talking about taking away space from bicyclists to give to cars AGAIN, but what troubles me is how Sarah Kirby-Yung seems to buy into the ridiculous idea that bike lanes are bad for climate action cuz they slow down cars.
I'm glad I got to say this about that idea:
Well done
@Lucyincanada
/
@pwaldkirch
. Shame on
@Vote4ABC
for once again putting cars first, no matter how crafty they think they are to disguise it. We vote out the NPA anti-bike candidates, just to get this version of NPA with a new
#vanpoli
name?
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It's great to be able to share some positive housing news:
The BC government is taking real steps to legalize more housing by UBC in the UEL!
🏘️ Provincial multiplexes legal NOW in the UEL mansion district
🏘️ designating the UBC bus loop as a Transit Oriented Area
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What a sad joke that money that was earmarked for building bike lanes is being used to demolish them. While other cities move forward with encouraging active transportation, Vancouver moves backwards.
Phase 1 of the Stanley Park bike lane removal is underway. While Phase 1 was expected to be completed this week, the remainder of the work has been delayed until next week as crews have had to prioritize managing snow/ice during this heavy weather event. More updates to come.
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This sort of resistance to housing reform isn't surprising. No one bears more responsibility for the housing crisis, collectively, than local mayors and councilors, many of whom have made careers catering to NIMBYs. Fixing their failures is why they need senior govt supervision!
Many of BC's mayors & councillors — in Vancouver for
#housing
summit — say they’re frustrated w province’s aggressive housing plan
#bcpoli
@CMHC_ca
@FCM_online
@BCNPHA
@UrbanHealthProf
@BSHNode
@GenSqueeze
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BC United has finally come out with their long-awaited housing platform...and it is laughably bad.
For over a year now the BC NDP have enacted policy after policy, and BCU has kept on saying "just wait for our plan!"...and THIS is the best they could come up with??? 😂
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I got married!
Neither of us are legally changing our names, but as a small gesture to include my wife's heritage I've adopted Chinese characters for my name.
I'm doing this for her & us b/c it makes her happy. But if it helps identify jerks and racists, that's ok too :p
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LOOOL A DAYCARE OPERATOR JUST OPPOSED A REZONING THAT WOULD INCLUDE A NEW DAYCARE BECAUSE IT WOULD COMPETE WITH IT
an actual, honest, straight up use of the ice-cream stand argument!!
(this is for a rental/daycare project in kerrisdale btw)
Me, owner of an ice-cream stand: Council, I am here to oppose the new ice-cream stand next to mine. While yes, it would be direct competition, my opposition has nothing to do with that. It is based only on "neighbourhood character", which I will not define.
Council: sounds legit
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I recommend people listen to this
@QanonAnonymous
episode, where
@AnnieKNK
visits a 15 min city protest. You can hear what these people actually say and believe. It's dangerous, and I think people advocating for better cities need to know what's coming.
Some far right group is posting up these signs all over the neighbourhood. flFor those that don’t know, there is a bunch of conspiracy nonsense related to the 15 minute concept.
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if only there were worthy causes in the world that could have used $20k instead of fighting Indigeneous-led housing in a city with a housing shortage crisis
And the Jericho Lands Policy Statement passes!
Jericho is set to become one of the most vibrant, exciting neighbourhoods in the entire city. Congrats to the Musqueam, Squamish) and Tsleil-Waututh nations. This is a great day for Vancouver!
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the NIMBYism is coming from inside the house
Fuck, and I cannot emphasize this enough, you
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The UBC bus loop might be the largest bus exchange in the country.
Meanwhile, properties like this are for sale a 12 minute walk away.
But for some inexplicable reason, the Province didn't designate the UBC bus loop as a Transit Oriented Area. 🤷
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I know it sometimes feels like Vancouver is changing quickly. But the reality is different.
This is an artist's rendering of apartments that have been in planning limbo for a decade. They're next to a Skytrain station built almost 40 years ago and it's still basically suburban!
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The BC Greens coming out against *townhomes* of all things is profoundly wrong from both a housing and climate perspective.
It is clear we are are suffering from a deep housing shortage; it is also clear that increasing density is necessary climate action.
Very disappointing.
I don’t believe all housing supply is created equal. I don’t believe that building luxury townhomes will make rents more affordable. In our current real estate market, housing is a product that generates wealth.
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This demonstrates an important dynamic in housing policy.
Local govts cater to people who are comfortably housed and have an incentive to give them a veto on new housing.
But senior govts feel the pain of dysfunctional regions and systems -- and can benefit by fixing them!
Woodward says local representatives are the best to decide on fees not, to paraphrase, a minister from a federal government that is trying to save itself before an election.
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Hey it's Nathan, who is supporting! Loves the development: protected spaces for ped and cyclists. This can redefine what communities in Vancouver can be. City shouldn't have right to tell Indigenous nations what they can't do here.
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ABC is dealing with road violence the same way Republicans deal with gun violence:
1. Do nothing and oppose efforts to fix a deadly problem
2. Thoughts and prayers!
3. Attack those proposing solutions
4. Rinse and repeat, wait for more death
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This is not a good sign for what the next 4 years have in store for Vancouver. :(
Newly-elected ABC Park Board Commissioner Scott Jensen just told
@jillreports
that the work to revert Stanley Park roadway to two lanes of traffic will go ahead in November.
@GlobalBC
@CKNW
@Lucyincanada
@WeAreHub
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Vancouver housing completions have been declining for 2 years.
Two big takeaways:
1) That we could still meet provincial targets shows what an ineffectual joke they are.
2) Ken Sim promised to triple housing production. Instead it's going down. He's failing BADLY on housing.
'Decline in completions': Vancouver misses housing targets ordered by B.C.
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The Vancouver Housing Discourse has made us laugh, it's made us cry, and now it's given us this gem: Michael Geller explicitly stating that he represents people under 40 and non-white people.
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