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Oct. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

A Comparison of Property Tax Rates

Not just for policy wonks!  Since civic governments’ main sources of revenue are property taxes and fees for services, almost…
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Oct. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Downsides and Dangers: Old-Economy Jobs, New-Economy Gigs

David, in a comment on this post – Taxi Crash – links to an article in Techcrunch by John Evans worthy of…
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Oct. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: CoV vs CPR

Frances Bula has written in her blog about the current stage of negotiations between CoV and CPR. If successful in…
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Sep. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Urban Makeover: Keeping the pounds off through urban design

Further to the post below several posts below: What is Oklahoma City doing after its Million-Pound Diet?  This, according to…
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Sep. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

In Our Dreams: Bikes and Good Business

Can you imagine something similar from, say, the Downtown Vancouver BIA or the Board of Trade: . . From Ken…
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Sep. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: The Larger Strategy

If the B.C. Liberals have a larger strategy behind the referendum, evidence of it was on the front page of…
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Sep. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Berkeley Bugle: Financing cities with mini-bonds

Berkeley links to this NextCity story: Crowdfunding Fans Are Crazy About Denver’s Mini-Bonds. Denver gained notice in the municipal funding…
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Sep. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

Bikes and Business: Olympic Village

Puzzle Pic: What percent of business at the Olympic Village arrives on bike?  That would be useful to know. .…
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Sep. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

A Phrase for Our Times: "Soft Denialism"

This is from Tom Athanasiou in, among other places, EcoEquity:  … we’ve been so long distracted by the hard denialists…
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Sep. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

The City and CP: Insights from Auerbach

Herb Auerbach is a long-time real-estate consultant in Vancouver.  In the following letter to Mayor Robertson, he provides lots of insight…
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Sep. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

New SFU City Program Course: Financing Urban Growth – Oct 30

  Financing Urban Growth: The Use of Development Cost Charges and Community Amenity Contributions . This course is a comprehensive,…
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Sep. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

City Conversations: A Tax for Housing and Transportation – Sep 18

  Linked: A Housing Speculation Tax and Transportation Funding   The two hot issues in the Lower Mainland are the…
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Sep. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

Carbon Talks Panel: Divesting? – Sep 26

Divest: Smart Strategy or Selling Out? Recent divest campaigns have attracted widespread attention as a number of prominent cities, foundations,…
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Sep. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

Addressing both high housing costs and transit funding with one tax

Jeff Nagel just added this to the comments section under “The Beautiful Empty Homes of Vancouver.” We (the Black Press newspaper…

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