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Sep. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Prices up~Buying Vancouver Real Estate Outperforms Stock Market

Two stories show two different perspectives of the Vancouver market. Not only is this housing market unaffordable for local buyers,…
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Sep. 01, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Will there be a Cultural Food Desert in Chinatown?

There is a horrifying trend in Vancouver’s Chinatown where more than fifty per cent of  the green grocers, butchers and…
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Aug. 30, 2017 / Scot Bathgate

Daily Scot – Small Scale Infill

Even with sky-high land costs in the City of Vancouver not all developers are relying on multiple lot assembly in…
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Aug. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Film Location Scouting in a City of Vacant Houses

Years ago, one Vancouver post and beam house was scouted for a major music network as their “1970’s Clubhouse”. Unfortunately…
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Aug. 25, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Province Considers Response to Mansions on Metro Vancouver Farmland

Price Tags Vancouver has written  extensively about the existing loophole where properties in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) can be…
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Aug. 24, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Delta's "We Need A Bridge" Campaign Brings Out the Video

Back the south of the Fraser River where the Corporation of Delta  continues the sound of one set of hands…
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Aug. 23, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Port Metro Vancouver Eats into Agricultural Land Reserve

In the same way that on-line shopping trends and changing retail tastes are taking a bite out of the stand-alone…
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Aug. 22, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Cropping Cash in the Agricultural Land Reserve~Surrey's $28 Million Dollar "Farmhouse" Estate

  When Price Tags has a contest for the most important planning initiatives in Metro Vancouver, my vote will be…
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Aug. 17, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Mural Festival — Another View

It’s a truism that people generally don’t like change.  And sometimes change is not good for some people in our…
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Aug. 17, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Mansplaining, Planning, and the Need for Gender Equity

  New York Times Image-Mansplaining Statue Alissa Walker is a talented writer, Curbed.com’s Urbanism editor and lives in Los Angeles.…
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Aug. 15, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

No Place for Office Space in Downtown Vancouver

Canadian Business Image With some of the recent events and policies south of the Canadian border it’s no surprise that  there…
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Aug. 10, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Walking, Schmocking: Who Cares!

You should, and for several reasons, one of which is your bank account. Todd Litman of the Victoria Transport Policy…
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Aug. 10, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Daily Durning:Can Cities Influence Walkability?

Sandy James Photos From the Daily Durning comes an interesting article from governing.com  on the importance of sidewalks to the liveliness…
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Aug. 07, 2017 / jamesavbligh

"Die Yuppies"

Found on the corner of Abbott St and W Hastings St, in a parking lot adjacent to the Woodward’s development.…

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