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Apr. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

"Show Courage, Please U-Turn on the Massey Bridge Decision"

Another cogent letter in the Richmond News written by Andy Hobbs questions the expenditure of $3.5 billion dollars (now forecast to…
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Apr. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

McArthurGlen YVR Mall-Parking for Customers, Employees not so much.

According to The Richmond News (and thanks to Scot Bathgate for alerting Price Tags) there is a season of discontent with the…
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Apr. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Port's Dirty Secret-Vancouver Biggest Exporter of Coal in North America

Alberta Oil Magazine reports that Vancouver is now North America’s largest coal  exporting port. Imagine-even though 66,000 people in China died…
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Apr. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge-If We Had 3.5 Billion Dollars…

The Province published an opinion piece by Eric Doherty, Bob Chitrenky, Harold Steves and Peter McCartney that provides one more flip…
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Apr. 26, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Tide Changing in Seattle as Neighbourhood Council Input nixed by City

Next City describes the changes occurring to the thirteen neighbourhood district councils in Seattle. These groups of activist homeowners have “held…
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Apr. 25, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

End of the Single Family Neighbourhood? Greater Vancouver Board of Trade

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade had a forum on  housing affordability and how to get young people living in…
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Apr. 24, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge, Billion dollar Boondoggle?

Imagine in fifty years what people will say about the decision-making occurring in Metro Vancouver. For some reason the Province…
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Apr. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Ontario-Changes to Rentals, New Foreign-Buyers' Tax

The Globe and Mail reports that  some aspects of Vancouver’s foreign-buyers regulation have been embraced in Greater Toronto’s “Golden Horseshoe” the…
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Apr. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Vision Zero in London – Nix Digital Signs, Reduce Speed on Bridges

London England is always slightly ahead of the curve and the Evening Standard reports on the cutting edge work of a community…
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Apr. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Have Latte, Will Talk in the "Third Place".

In 1989, Ray Oldenburg coined the phrase “third place” in his book The Great Good Place.  The “third place” was…
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Apr. 19, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Back to Tsawwassen Mills Mall, Being Afoot, and Crossing Highway 17

If you have ventured out to this mall which takes up 1.2 million square feet of real estate, you will…
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Apr. 19, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Metro Vancouver Housing Prices Down, but Not For Long

Metro News and  Jeff Hodson reports that the latest Royal LePage housing price survey shows  a decline in housing prices in…
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Apr. 17, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Original Frank Lloyd Wright House For Sale-

There is no doubt that the work of the west coast architects in developing the northwest coast style was greatly…
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Apr. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Seattle's "Endurance" Docks at Ballard Parklet

Little parklets are those exciting hacks of previous parking spaces morphing into things that well, ordinary people walking around can…

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David Sadoway

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