Ken Ohrn links to this CityLab piece by Eric Jaffe. Nothing we haven’t read before – and it lacks qualifications, particularly about affordability. But it’s good summary of the policy efforts going back to the early 1990s.
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How family friendly can it be if families can’t afford it? Probably the only reason school age growth is outpacing the rest of the city is that the rest of the city is now out of reach of the middle class.
As to the comparison vis a vis Seattle, what is Vancouver’s total downtown population compared to Seattle’s?
You’re right Bob, it’s a real shame that there isn’t an easy, convenient way of looking things up on the internet. (No doubt it would have some crazy name – like ‘Google’). If there was you could check the City of Vancouver website that would tell you the Downtown Peninsula had over 99,000 people in 2011 in an area of 2.23 square miles – so a population density of 44,000 per square mile.
The downtown Seattle website (www.downtownseattle.com/resources/demographics/) would tell you there were just under 60,000 people living in Downtown Seattle at a density of over 20,000 per square mile.
No doubt if there were 2014 data for Vancouver the population would be quite a bit higher, as that seems to be where much of the city’s development is taking place – especially the higher density development.