Ann McAfee, Co-Director of Planning in the 1990-2000s, was talking about the planning department at City Hall, and held up two pieces of paper which, from any distance, were some black blurs with that illustrated personnel changes in the Planning Department. So Ann went back and sent along some slides from her collection.
Here are two:
Here are two:
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City of Vancouver Planning Directors
1973 to 2012
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Ray Spaxman’s Recruits
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Ann also estimated about 60 planners have left the COV since her era. It’s very difficult for any organization to absorb the loss of so much corporate memory in so short a time. Of course, there are some cynics who might view that as a good thing!