A request from Michael Alexander:
If you support removal of the viaducts and approval of the North East False Creek plan, send emails today. Council is holding public hearings today, with many delegations opposed. We need to sway votes to yes.
Send a comment:
- Go to vancouver.ca
- Click “Tell the Mayor”
- Follow the link to the web form.
- Please support the NEFC plan.
A plan summary is here. The full report is here.
Of course, people can comment about any aspect, but the key is support for removal of the viaducts and approval of the plan.
Even if this passes, there is still much to do. This starts the viaduct’s removal process, and is the framework for future work to come on detailed design of the park and other elements of the plan.
While I agree in principle with what they’re trying to do here, making this plan public 6 days before public hearing is dumb. What are they thinking when they do that? They seem to be just asking for people to complain about lack of consultation and I agree.
I sent an email but received an automated reply stating that the mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca email account is no longer monitored.
I find on the linked pages that there are places to give feedback for individual parcel rezoning but nothing to give feedback on the viaduct removal and replacement.
I’d like to support the viaduct removal (having gone from indifferent to now favouring it as I’ve seen the proposal develop) but don’t see how.
You need to sway votes to yes?! In what universe? Everybody knows this is a done deal.
You really believe that? That’s what is said for a lot of proposals but I have seen nothing to prove it.
Much of this plan has a lot of momentum at this point in time so it would take something major to stop it but the NEFC plan, while having lots of good things has a few things that at this time need more work. Those things could totally prevent approval. It won’t stop the plan, (that would have happened a few years ago) but it might mean they’re not done with the design job.
If you have any concerns why not let them know?
Considering all the years, money, staff time, and extensive public engagement process that has been done, I certainly hope it is a ‘done deal’.
The plan has been years in the making, with extensive consultation all along the way. For people to get involved now and expect their opinion to have more weight than those 17,500 who are logged as having participated to this point is unrealistic.
The mayor and council email listed was turned off some time back. There is a web tool on the city web site to provide direct feedback to mayor and council. I don’t think using it the day of the meeting ensures your thoughts will be heard.
Council already approved in principle the removal of the viaducts, in 2015. Today’s vote is more about the NE False Creek Plan.
The one thing I’d change if I could is the bent alignment of Abbott Street south of the new Pacific Boulevard, and the bulky tall building placed at that intersection, right in the existing street alignment. A nasty “gift” to Abbott Street residents and a complete violation of Vancouver’s legacy of protecting street end views.
Straighten it out, I asked the NEFC urban designers a couple of months ago, to no avail. (The straight alignment is in the BEFC ODP, by the way.) We like it curved and don’t want to lose ground floor space, they said.
I’m not impressed.
Right. That one building on the west corner could be triangular allowing Abbott St. to be straight all the way to the water.