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Dec. 16, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

A Tale of Two Cities & Two Different City Councillors

Here is a tale of two municipalities and two councillors. As reported by Aaron Hinks in the Peace Arch News…
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Dec. 05, 2019 / Alexandra Doran

Equity Perspectives no. 1: Vancouver Granville Bridge Connector & Mobility Equity Workshop

Last week, the City of Vancouver hosted a free public workshop on the Granville Bridge Connector project. Currently, there are…
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Dec. 03, 2019 / Gordon Price

Goodman Gate

Goodman, Vancouver’s pre-eminent seller of small (and some large) apartment blocks, has raised the alert about a Council motion that…
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Dec. 02, 2019 / Alexandra Doran

Introducing “Equity Perspectives”

In addition to my role as a new Price Tags contributor (thanks all for reading!), I have an academic and…
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Nov. 25, 2019 / Gordon Price

Burnaby Builds A City – 1

Burnaby at Brentwood has gone full urban. This is the Lougheed Highway at Willingdon – one the signature crossroads of…
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Nov. 22, 2019 / Gordon Price

Rental Apartment Rezoning: Place Your Bets

When Councillors consider this report on November 26 – Rental Incentives Review Phase II – “to create new zoning districts…
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Nov. 13, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

The Netherlands Slowing Highway Speeds to Limit Nitrogen Oxide Emissions

Last week I attended the International Road Safety Symposium that was hosted by UBC’s Integrated Safety and Advanced Mobility Bureau…
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Nov. 10, 2019 / Barry Rueger

North Shore Housing? Thanks Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish!

If you’ve been following the plans by the Squamish nation to build 6000 units of housing near the Burrard Bridge,…
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Nov. 05, 2019 / Barry Rueger

DNV Council – For The Birds?

This week the municipal council of the District of North Vancouver voted to prohibit the keeping of pigeons in the…
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Oct. 31, 2019 / VWPT Vancouver

Vancouver Impressions: Cascadian Guest Post

In September, Michael Anderson, senior researcher with Sightline Institute (Cascadia’s sustainability think tank), and Kiel Johnson, founder and operator of…
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Oct. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Grand Bargain, Illustrated

  You won’t likely find “The Grand Bargain” in a planning text, even though it explains in a phrase the…
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Oct. 16, 2019 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot in Victoria – 3: Harris Green

From Daily Scot: Walking through Victoria’s Harris Green neighbourhood located just east of downtown, you witness first hand the city’s…
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Oct. 06, 2019 / Barry Rueger

Show Me The Way To Go Home

What is this — a café? A library? A corner store? Unless you regularly travel by transit to Langara College…
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Oct. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

Panel: What’s the Use of Heritage? – Oct 9

Shaping Vancouver 2019: What’s the Use of Heritage? Conversation #2: What do we do about neighbourhoods? Some argue that “neighbourhood…

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