Richard Wittstock
@rwittstock
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How much social housing could you build for $600 million?
Quite a fucking lot, in fact.
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Less than 50% of City of Vancouver population owns a car, and that percentage continues to drop every year.
Designing the heart of our second downtown for car-primacy is so retrograde, so 20th century.
It’s true that not everyone can ride a bike, or walk.
You know what else not everyone can do?
Drive.
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I follow
@AuschwitzMuseum
We are observing a strange decrease of number of followers. Almost 2,5k from yesterday evening. Weird things happen here on
@Twitter
.
Help
@AuschwitzMuseum
& encourage others to follow.
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Time to stop the denial. This is our new normal in a climate emergency. This is happening right here, right now. If you’re complaining that you’re being inconvenienced by a bike lane, a parking tax or a gas tax, give your head a shake. You are part of the problem.
A look at barge at English Bay, we also have high waves and benches under water
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Dear Owner of 83 SW Marine Drive,
What in the heck were you thinking.
Sincerely,
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Brutal. My kids ride this bike lane a lot.
As a parent, F*cking Idiot Drivers Of Vancouver are my
#1
fear, by a mile. Nothing else even comes close. Not drugs, not alcohol, not random stranger attacks. F*cking idiot drivers are the
#1
threat to their safety and well-being.
Imagine not only being a SUV in a protected bike lane but also having the audacity to drive this fast in it.
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I generally don’t pay much attention to federal politics, but it seems to me that 80% of the country’s housing problems are pretty specific to Vancouver and Toronto, so they put a lawyer from Nova Scotia w no housing-related experience in charge. Doesn’t inspire confidence.
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Key handover tomorrow at Century House. 4 families and a neighborhood cafe coming soon to the corner of 34th and Nanaimo. So rewarding to see an idea finally come together as I’d envisioned it many years ago! Many thanks to everyone who helped make this dream a reality.
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Skytrain continues to be an unmitigated success. More asap please. Let’s finish the Broadway line to UBC and then loop down to 41st all the way to Metrotown.
Vancouver's SkyTrain is now the 4th busiest subway system in North America | Urbanized
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@elenoresturko
@katy_merrifield
@JM_Whiteside
Seems to me it would be better for people to be buying safe hydromorphone on the street, than an unsafe unknown substance?
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I ❤️ Kits; it’s been my home for almost 20 years now and I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. But I’ve spent the past few days in North Van and I have come to the conclusion that Central Lonsdale is better than West 4th and West Broadway right now. More vibrant and varied.
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So I’ve done a few laps in my car around Stanley Park in the past week to check out the bike lane pilot and what all the fuss is about. Here are my observations:
(1) depending upon time of day, there are often more bikes than cars on the road. That was the case this morning.
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I’m sorry, but an Empty Stores Tax is probably the stupidest thing I’ve heard this week.
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@ManuelVeth
I’m with you on this Manu. I found the whole scene pretty crass and am glad it’s over. Al Thani owns both leading players, he was grinning from ear to ear. Mbappe snubs Macron but he & Messi are more than happy to kiss up to their boss. It has to be the ultimate in sportwashing.
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This is a bonkers take. One of the biggest problems of our housing system is that every home is a unique one-off, hence construction productivity has actually fallen over the past 100 years while every other form of manufacturing has seen incredible efficiency gains.
So private developers will be "encouraged" to use standardized government blueprints for housing. This was done after the war to quickly build houses for returning soldiers and the fact that the government is doing this in 2023 reeks of desperation. Standardized housing was a
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It’s actually only 36% of
@CityofVancouver
population that owns a car now. Parking is not prerequisite to success of a commercial street in a high-density, transit-oriented district; it’s actually a negative. Other uses for that space would benefit businesses far more.
Less than 50% of City of Vancouver population owns a car, and that percentage continues to drop every year.
Designing the heart of our second downtown for car-primacy is so retrograde, so 20th century.
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You see that photo and conclude that the barricade is the one at fault here? 🤦🏻
Hey
@CityofVancouver
this is second incident I’ve seen caused by these useless ‘slow street’ barricades installed last month. They don’t slow down traffic; they cause crashes and traffic chaos.
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This is gorgeous, but if it was proposed in a ‘single-family’ neighbourhood in Vancouver we know 100% that certain people would call it ugly, out of character and scale, a monstrosity!
I really wish this was permitted on every corner lot in Seattle. Imagine these in your neighborhood. A small shop, 4-plex, built in 1 year (courtesy of
@carywesterbeck
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Is this for real?
How about “As a driver, the MVA requires you to stop at a marked crosswalk if there is a pedestrian physically occupying the crosswalk.”
As a pedestrian, with the increase in dark and gloomy days, consider adding something reflective to increase your visibility. As a driver, you will see pedestrians when you really look for them.
#ShareTheRoadBC
@icbc
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One reason why
#fourfloorsandcornerstores
is so difficult in the City of Vancouver - over $100,000 in extra sprinklering requirements for a 500 sq.ft. retail unit at the
#bkgrocery
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Let’s be ABUNDANTLY CLEAR about one thing: when Hardwick says “I’d encourage developers to look at existing zoned capacity” what she’s saying is: “Hands-off the single family areas; go develop in RM and C zones where the capacity is.”
Yep, that’s your walkup she’s referring to.
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When I was young, property taxes were 2% of value. Now they’re 0.28%.
There’s a freight-train-derailment-sized disconnect happening here, but none of our electeds seem to want to acknowledge it. We need to reform municipal finance next
@KahlonRav
@iamkennethchan
If municipal/regional govt need money, can they PLEASE just change a flat 1% on property taxes so they everybody pays - both current and future residents. DCs are bu11$h1t
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A voting reminder for those who lean towards preferring low taxes:
Bill Tieleman was the person behind the anti-HST campaign that has ended up costing consumers a fortune in hidden tax. There’s double & triple taxation in everything you buy (incl housing & cars) thanks to Bill.
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“Canada’s immigration target for 2021-2023 is 400,000 newcomers a year. None of these [parties’] plans would produce enough supply to serve new immigrants, let alone the existing underserved population.”
Good piece by
@SabrinaMaddeaux
Sabrina Maddeaux: Home ownership is becoming a lost cause and the Liberals did worse than diddly squat
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People should drive it and judge for themselves. I’ve done four laps now including on the weekend and this is an absolute non-issue. There is absolutely no limitation on anyone’s access here. People are being very dishonest here. Adjustments have been made and it works well now.
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If your neighbourhood lost 20% of its children in 5 years, wouldn't you consider that a crisis? Or would you say "No, it's fine" & instead work to prevent the development of housing that would be more welcoming for families? Looking at you,
#Shaughnessy
#Kerrisdale
#WPG
#VanRE
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Had a nice meal at Nook on Yew last weekend outside on their sidewalk patio…was thinking how cool it would be if that whole block was closed to cars. Massive patios on both sides of the street. Would be so incredible, so signature block for the city!
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So disappointed in this council. For me, this was a tiny move on climate - real issue at play here was land use. That this council was unable to connect the dots on that is shocking to me. Shows me they are not really serious about land use (and by extension, climate) reform.
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@amberkanwar
There are people for whom cycling doesn’t work, for whom cars or transit are necessary. That’s totally fine. The point is that if we can get more people who CAN bike TO bike, it frees up road space for everyone (and provides a multitude of other benefits as well).
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So let me get this straight - for $350k we can have our beautiful Jericho Pier amenity rebuilt brand new, or for $750k we can have nothing, so staff is recommending picking the nothing option?
#nopierforyou
Vancouver Park Board staff are recommending the demolition of the damaged Jericho Pier.
The direct cost of repair is $350,000, after a $1.35 million insurance payout.
The direct cost for demolition is $750,000-$3 million, after insurance.
#vanpoli
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(1) Housing crisis wasn’t created in a year; it took decades to get us into this mess and will take decades to get us out;
(2) starts are below 1970s numbers when population was 40% less;
(3) household size is much smaller now;
(4) you can’t live in a start.
Don’t oversimplify.
We are told…
House prices in Canada are high because we’re not building enough homes
We’re not building enough homes because of "supply constraints"
But with housing starts at a 40 year high, what happened to the “supply constraints”?
Did they suddenly disappear?
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With Hardwick gone from City Hall, I really hope the idea of “land value inflation through rezoning” has left along with her. That is not how it works. There isn’t a single credible land economist that agrees with this canard that Condon/Hardwick were pushing.
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It is a terrible time to be a rental housing developer. Between rising interest rates, falling values, massive construction cost inflation and now measures like this from our dear gov’t, we’re getting hit on all sides. It’s just not worth it; these projects don’t make any sense.
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Today, kid
#1
(14) & his buddy rode bikes down PGR bikeway, to Beach Ave bikeway & along Coal Harbour seawall to
@bellagelateria
.
Kid
#2
(12) & her buddies rode PGR to Spanish Banks & swam in the ocean.
The independence that safe bike routes provide to city kids is so valuable.
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Morning (lack of) traffic - Spring Break highlights just how much of road congestion is parents driving kids to school. What the hell has happened to this world, where kids can’t be trusted to navigate their own way to school safely and independently???
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10-year GoC bond is at 3.35% right now. Highest it’s been since January 2011. Low interest rates over the last 10 years were what made new rental construction economically viable.
Right now, that period is OVER. With yields up 50bps or more, no new rental projects will pencil.
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Not right wing. Moderate centrist. Anyone can see that. This kind of rhetoric is how you alienate people. I think Forward and OneCity were sunk by the partisan and VLDC endorsements in the last two weeks of the election. Most people don’t want partisanship in municipal politics.
Tonight's results aren't what we hoped for. We are faced with the first right-wing government in Vancouver in over a decade.
We do not yet know the final results. But we do know that
@KenSimCity
will be our new mayor.
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It’s a bit crazy when you think about it. Gastown should be car-free, 100% pedestianized. It’s so obvious.Just like any Altstadt in Europe…this sh*t ain’t hard. Just do it already ffs.
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I hate the way the term ‘right supply’ is currently used in our housing discourse. All supply is beneficial in that it gives people a place to live and creates economic activity.
Right supply is being used by politicians to demonize condos, as if living in a condo is wrong.
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@ParkBoard
This is insanity. I’m really not looking forward to hearing about the inevitable collisions that this is going to cause.
And I’m sad that citizens have lost a great amenity. My kids loved biking it, we have some really great memories of fun days made possible by the safe lane.
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I love this tweet so much
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Here’s one example. Zero displacement, zero gentrification. Replacement of two large 1950s/60s $5m+ houses with 81 rental apartments with starting rents capped at below-market rates. Who voted against? TEAM. They are complete hypocrites with respect to affordable housing.
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This kind of leadership would be so nice
To ensure cars didn’t take back control of Paris streets as the pandemic was “ending,” (like they have in many cities), Mayor
@Anne_Hidalgo
made sure that 60k parking spaces and many streets were permanently transformed to seating for restaurants, people places and bike-lanes. 4/
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Sunday afternoon ride incl a couple laps of Stanley Park. Observations:
(1) hundreds, possibly thousands, of bikes & peds vs dozens of cars. Bikes still outnumbering cars at least 10:1 on SP Drive (needs a name change btw, ‘Drive’ is inaccurate),
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Incredible, massive policy failure. There are probably 20+ conscious policy decisions that authorities made, that each seemed like a good idea at the time, which fed into the result of 3 SFDs being a higher and better use for this property than apartments.
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Yet another TEAM retired “planner” telling Harvard trained land economist he’s wrong because “it’s Economics 101, Tom” HAS to be peak Vancouver housing twitter.
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@ManuelVeth
@SBienkowski
I’m just looking forward to seeing Leverkusen or Union playing Barca and beating them 🤣
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“I do get a bit frustrated when there seems to be a sense among some people that it’s progressive to oppose the development of badly needed housing, that it’s a sell-out to deep-pocketed developers.” Nice to see no-nonsense straight talk
@Dave_Eby
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We are a deeply unserious region
Metro Vancouver defies feds, approves tripling of development charges
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We have capacity. That’s a red herring. We could easily crank housing production up to 1970s levels if we freed up zoning and approvals. That’s where the bottleneck is.
Everything you need to know about Canada's housing market in 3 short paragraphs
From
@BenRabidoux
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The cost of gas for an average 10km car trip is still much less than the price of a transit fare. Gas prices need to increase at least another 50% to equalize the marginal costs. A gas rebate is terrible policy
@bcndp
But yes, the fair thing to do is to give drivers cash back for high gas prices.
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Really bizarre seeing guys in the development industry that are 10 years older than me with harsh NIMBY takes, seemingly completely ignorant of the multiple crises we are currently existing in. The generational dividing line really is between Gen X and the late Boomers ~ 1965.
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I have a condo unit turning over in Yaletown Feb 1. Posted it on Tuesday and have received well over 150 inquiries for it. For Feb 1. These people are desperate. It’s insane.
The
#housingshortage
is real and it’s devastating. Gov’t failure at all three levels are unconscionable.
It's a crisis of homelessness, a crisis of rents and security of tenure, and a crisis of home prices in that order.
But the underlying reason behind all of them is a shortage of homes.
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The city that builds the most housing, wins.
This is a must read. Leaders need to look at housing as building capacity for their cities’ economic growth. Everything comes back to building enough housing, which almost nobody is doing.
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Concerned homeowners always have the same expression
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Kingsway deserves to be a great street. It shouldn’t just be a car sewer. It should be a place that people love to spend time on. With all the development happening along that corridor, we’re missing a generational opportunity.
@rwittstock
On the selfish side, I’d just like to see Separated Safe Bike Lanes along the entire length of Kingsway & many more crossing lights of the major north-south arterials in the city.
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If Paris can do the Champs-Élysées, we can certainly do Granville Street!
Paris is investing £225m to transform the iconic but car-choked Champs-Élysées boulevard into an “extraordinary garden.” Among other things, 140K on-street parking spaces will be removed. Bold city-building leadership from
@Anne_Hidalgo
& team. Via
@TheB1M
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On Bruce Allen’s
@CKNW
rant this morning he was complaining that no one else seems to be making a fuss about Richards St and Beach Ave bike lanes. 🤦♂️
He’s complaining that he’s the only one complaining. Bc vast majority supports. Maybe time to put this dinosaur out to pasture...
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That’s a terrible idea. Restoring vehicle traffic to pre-pandemic levels was never part of
@Vote4ABC
’s platform. Bad bad idea, do not do. Parks are for people not cars.
Restoring vehicle traffic to pre-pandemic levels at Stanley Park remains a priority. The temporary bike lane is being removed as we speak, however; some sections need to be repurposed to address safety concerns that have become apparent.
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I find it hilarious that the CoV picked a photo of Broadway with 6 lanes and almost no cars on it to communicate this decision. Oh the irony…you can’t make this stuff up. Almost like the comms people themselves don’t believe what they’re saying 🤔
A Tale of Two Broadways. The
@CityofVancouver
council voted for a "Great Street" without active transport (aka: bike) lanes. NYC council has decided that the other Broadway should look a bit different. Which plan feels "great" to you?
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I can’t get over this. These people are in my community but they might as well be on a different planet. What kind of life in this city are you experiencing right now, when someone building a high-end triplex on a 50’ lot is your definition of a “community in crisis”?
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I love the simplicity of this design. I say make it modular and stack them 6 high everywhere. Could fabricate these modules off site and build the whole thing in a couple months, you could get 24 - 400sf units on a standard 33’ lot. Scaleable, would move the needle.
One house turns into six homes in Portland, Oregon. (2016➡️2019)
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No scapegoats this time: B.C. economist says foreign buyer share in home sales drops to near zero in 2020
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Shortage of ground-oriented housing has me thinking again about fee-simple zero-lot-line rowhousing as a key part of the solution. Take a standard 33’ lot, slice it in half and you have 2 new rowhouse lots. Get your permit in a few weeks and go. The new Vancouver Special.
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So what the heck am I supposed to do with this vaccine card now? Seriously - no ability to save it in my Apple wallet? Or no easy web app that I can one-click on? Guys this is way too complicated.
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@BrentToderian
@PickledEntropy
But I don’t want to just pick on pickup drivers. Westside moms doing school drop off in their V8 range rovers are the opposite side of the same coin. Equally unnecessary.
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Glad to see Gassy Jack gone. I was initially shocked when I saw the images, because I had no idea what he represented. Having learned from good pieces like this one, I say thank you to the people who accomplished in a few minutes what the city wasn’t able to get done in 2 years.
Why was this statue of Gassy Jack toppled today in Vancouver? You can read more here in this article by
@MHStewart
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My taxes are the same whether I use street space or not. Majority of Vancouverites do not own cars. Free street parking is yet another subsidy to me as a driver that I don’t need and didn’t ask for. Meanwhile people who can’t afford a car are the ones who pay for that subsidy.
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Disappointing recommendation from staff. Option 2 is clearly better.
City of Vancouver staff have reiterated maintaining at least 4 vehicle lanes on the arterial of Broadway is required.
Narrowing to only 2 vehicle lanes will lead to major accessibility issues, requires
#TransLink
Major Road Network approval.
#vanpoli
2/2
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Non-real-estate-person’s observation last night at dinner:
“House owners want the density in their neighbourhood to stay low, until the day before they’re ready to cash out.”
#Truth
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(4) Any time there’s been traffic in the rightmost westbound Georgia lane (“all the way to Cardero!”) it’s been because of people trying to merge from the right into the bridge lanes holding up traffic. It’s not from Park Drive traffic at all. cc:
@jillreports
@simisara980
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Random housing policy thought today ftw: If a developer wants to build mass timber + passivhaus + rental on a site within 1km of rapid transit, there should be zero zoning, density or height restrictions.
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City needs to raise on-street parking rates to market. Would solve so many problems. Right now the City is subsidizing wealthy homeowners and landlords through free/underpriced pkg. And I say this as a homeowner & landlord who enjoys massive benefits from free on-street parking.
Meanwhile in Vancouver we spent a ton of money piloting a school street for 2 years, found out that kids, parents, and staff absolutely loved it, then cancelled it because a couple residents complained about parking.
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If more people actually took the time to experience Stanley Park Drive for themselves, instead of just listening to the hysterical wailing on CKNW, I have to think we would have landed on a very different (and better informed) outcome here. City is losing a great tourist amenity.
Join me on a little trip to
#StanleyPark
this fine holiday Monday afternoon…
Coming across the Lion’s Gate bridge, vehicle traffic was heavy so I fully expected some of that Carmageddon mayhem I’ve been hearing about all weekend. A thread…
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You know what’s ‘wrong supply’? Wrong is when we clearcut yet another 100 acres on Cypress Mountain or Burke Mountain so that millionaires can live their unsustainable suburban SUV dream. That actively harms our environment for the most inefficient form of housing possible.
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So now TEAM are sending lawyer letters to Progress Vancouver try to keep them from shining a light on some of the reprehensible things Hardwick has been saying lately.
Stay classy, TEAM. Stay classy.
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A quick development math thread to follow-on this comment - to show what current rents would have to be for a market project on a non-arterial to work under this policy:
My two cents on this: Mostly, much ado about nothing. I don't see any 4-storey rentals being built on non-arterials. Just not economic to buy 33' lots at $1.5-$2.5 million each ($375-$625/sf) for rental at anything less than 2.50 FSR.
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Planners: today I had a request, from a muni that I used to really like to work in (not New West this time) to show furniture on our drawings so that the planner can evaluate whether the layout works or not.
I’m sorry, but I don’t believe that should be in a planner’s purview.
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Vancouver housing discourse in a nutshell. NIMBY columnist makes sh*t up to suit his anti-housing narrative; PhD housing expert corrects his alternative facts, but the damage is done. Columnist does not retract & continues to have a major media platform to spout more BS.
@DouglasTodd
This is simply not true. It was originally intended as a hotel. (There was an architecture competition, and the winning model of 4 towers of different heights got rejected by council in favour of this one.) But developer went bankrupt, and state won building in auction.
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Most egregious is that TEAM are the leading obstructionists behind ensuring that new rentals can only be built in place of existing rentals.
They consistently try to block any attempt to build rentals (incl below-mkt) in places where gentrification and displacement risk are low.
What the housing experts are saying is -- those affordable suites are disappearing steadily all the time. And, although the current federal government is putting more money into housing than has been seen for a while, it's not keeping up in any way.
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I am hopeful that one of the outcomes of last Friday’s youth-led
#ClimateStrikeVancouver
is that kids tell their parents they don’t want to be driven to school.
That is the single biggest thing that students can do to move the needle on climate change right now.
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Cities like Burnaby (especially), Coquitlam, Richmond and Surrey need to pay attention to this.
Density is great only when a neighbourhood is enjoyable to walk and cycle. Towers surrounded by car sewers do not achieve the vibrancy that density should bring.
There are lots of former suburbs out there that have been building new downtowns & urban places. How they treat cars in such places is often the difference between achieving a REAL urban place or a higher density suburb. Busy & creative day touring Mississauga with local leaders.
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At prospect point. It’s jammed with families on bikes; we just had a great lunch. I’m 100% certain that the key to their business this summer is bikes, not cars.
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“It’s clear, it’s so obvious, that we’re not building enough housing.” Housing minister
@Dave_Eby
on
@MikeSmythNews
@CKNW
just now.
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Really wish we were pushing zero-lot-line fee simple row houses rather than duplexes. Row houses our offer much greater livability and better use of land.
Want to know more about Making Room for Duplexes?
@CityofVancouver
is hosting information sessions across the city this week.
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TEAM is the most cynical, disingenuous bunch of hypocrites that I’ve ever seen in all my years following Vancouver civic politics. They do not deserve the vote of anyone who cares about the future of our city.
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.
@profgalloway
predicted mass tech layoffs on his pod 3 months ago. Well, looks like they’ve arrived.
BREAKING: META, THE PARENT COMPANY OF FACEBOOK, TO BEGIN MASS LAYOFFS ON WEDNESDAY.
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Why can’t we have nice things like this
Edinburgh knows how to do pedestrian-only streets. 🤩🏴
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@Jay_Pitter
And your response, respectfully, exemplifies my planner-skepticism. Too much time spent worrying about things that are “nice” but in opposition to what the primary objective needs to be: Getting the maximum number of homes built for people as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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This looks like a 33’ lot. We could have these all over Vancouver’s C-2 zones, could’ve been building these for decades if not for our regulations which require 7-8 parking stalls, two exit stairs and an elevator & horizontal angle of daylight for all rooms
#projectkillers
Philly has so many high quality infill projects.
The creation of simple and graceful buildings like this around the city is a key reason why it has remained relatively affordable, incrementally scaling up single family homes and lots allow for a few apartments and retail.
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This should be most streets in Metro Vancouver.
New street in Dorset.
✅ Gentle Density
✅ Street trees (in carriageway!)
✅ Beautiful terraced homes
✅ 🚗 present but people first
✅ Blocks with backs & fronts
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The sprinkler system in this 4 unit project with 1 small CRU is pretty much identical to that in our 65-unit rental building. The sprinkler code is crazy, and a major impediment to doing small-scale mixed-use.
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The single-family mansion currently being built at the corner of 51st and Granville, next to a 15 year old townhouse project, is a policy failure.
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If you are an independent entrepreneur interested in opening a neighbourhood resto/cafe/grocery, in a precious East Van landmark with over a century of history attached to it, please contact me at richard
@domushomes
.ca.
#BKGrocery
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For anyone interested in where public opinion might be at on this issue…this is my
#1
most-engaged and liked tweet in the 12 years I’ve been sharing my two cents’ on this platform.
Less than 50% of City of Vancouver population owns a car, and that percentage continues to drop every year.
Designing the heart of our second downtown for car-primacy is so retrograde, so 20th century.
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My 13 year old is riding by himself from west Kits to Andy Livingstone Park this afternoon for soccer practice. Only reason we’re not freaking out about it is that he can travel (almost) the entire route on protected bike lanes. That’s what my bike advocacy is about.
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