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Mar. 01, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

New Taxes on Three Million Dollar Metro Vancouver Houses

  The NDP Provincial government introduced two initiatives that will impact housing in the three million dollar and up price…
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Feb. 23, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Mansion Estates or Class A Agricultural Land in the City of Richmond?

This story illustrates the problem of expectations when existing regulations are not enough to achieve a higher purpose, like protecting…
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Feb. 22, 2018 / michaelkluckner

$$ Land Assembly economics $$

A very telling, quite neutral article about Michelle Yu and her specialty of land assemblies by Christopher Cheung in the…
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Feb. 22, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

New Westminster Councillor Invites You to Innovation Week February 23-Mar 2

Patrick Johnstone is a city councillor for the City of New Westminster as well as a cyclist, writer, and engaged…
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Feb. 21, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Rain Water Strategy Workshop

Well, we have a lot of it in Vancouver~and we don’t have a civic strategy on how to use it.…
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Feb. 21, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Googletown, the Next Silicon Valley?

. City Council in San Jose California is voting on giving Google “exclusive negotiating rights for parcels of city-owned land…
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Feb. 21, 2018 / Ron Usher

A Modest Proposal: On B.C. real estate and taxation

Ron Usher is a lawyer, Commissioned Notary Public, and SFU Visiting Professor – Property Law.   A modest proposal for…
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Feb. 20, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Irony of Inclusionary Zoning

From oregonlive: Portland’s apartment-building binge appears to be headed off a cliff. Applications for new housing developments have nearly ground…
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Feb. 15, 2018 / michaelkluckner

CIBC backflips on "student mortgages"

Via Jak King, a blow to those students wanting to buy multi-million dollar west-side Vancouver houses, via betterdwelling.com. Foreign buyers…
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Feb. 15, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

"Kale in the Smoothies"~Duke of Data Andy Yan Interviewed on Who is Buying Vancouver Real Estate

What a difference a few years makes. Duke of Data Andy Yan was working with Bing Thom Architects in 2015…
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Feb. 15, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Concrete Pipe as Public Housing in Hong Kong

From the Duke of Data and Director of the City program at Simon Fraser University Andy Yan comes this article…
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Feb. 14, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Promo for the Perfect Toronto Tenant

What to do when you live in a city with a low vacancy rate and need a place to rent?…
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Feb. 12, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Street Level Toronto Film: The Honest Ed's Site and "Why I Became a Planner"

The iconic Toronto “Honest Ed” site is being redeveloped by Westbank at Bloor and Bathurst in the Annex area. The City of…
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Feb. 12, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Urbanist Melody Ma, the Vancouver View Corridors, & Why They Are Important

The Northeast False Creek Plan goes to Council this week and Price Tags Vancouver has been looking for any rationale behind the…

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