It's absolutely bonkers that we even have to have a hearing to build a desperately needed elementary school. All 300 letters should just be:

In good news, the anti-Olympic Village School campaign isn't going very well...

NIMBY property owner talk to a therapist challenge (impossible)

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

A Mobi bike can hold a 10kg bag of flour My kitchen though, only 8.5, so I have some baking to do

Nice day to go for a bike ride and catch up on municipal politics www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

bananas

They should rename that street while they’re at it: www.vice.com/en/article/t...

This article interviews people who don't live next to a new multiplex, speculating about what the neighbours might think. Did they try to talk to some actual neighbours? Always "we're not against new housing, we just want incremental density" in theory not practice www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Why does the larger North Van not simply eat the smaller North Van?

Inside you there are two wolves

In 1977 the local misanthropes opposed the hospital because "There’s talk of hotels being built there for out-of-town patients’ relatives and that means beer parlors and lounges and office buildings and the next thing you know they’ll want a hamburger stand..." but then we never allowed the hotels!

These kinds of human scale, mixed-use Midwest dive bars are illegal to open and operate in most American neighborhoods.

In honor of the City finally releasing the Corridor maps, this sketch illustrates why living on an arterial is not the same as being close to transit.

Would you rather fight 100 house-sized apartments, or one apartment-sized house?

I just want to share a cute little stack of Raspberry Pi with some friends, but they only allow gaming towers in most of the city 😭

The long-awaited school in Olympic Village is going to City Council for public hearing on February 12! If you have five minutes, please consider writing in support of the school: vancouver.ca/your-governm... (Choose CD-1 (454) Text Amendment: 215 West 1st Avenue)

Hold on a second, I remember someone writing an article about the opportunity to mix high rise residential on top of light industrial in areas close to transit and amenities… www.vancouverisawesome.com/opinion/lett...

"Local woman who just wants to be able to walk to a bar to drink and stumble home now a leading urbanist." creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord

Hey! It's fuckin' lovely out there Go get some D

Ah yes, the two genders, Tall and Sprawl

we shouldn’t divide our cities like TV dinners with zoning. we should plan cities like salads and mix everything up

They had warned that Larch & 2nd would drop the ghetto on Kitsilano 😔

seriously tho

mfw everyone else has a home river

A problem with living in a walkable area, is that when a sibling visits they want to walk *all of it* I just want to grab takeout around the corner and get back to my couch

A mature forest isn't stagnant. Old trees aren't forever, and new infill growth happens all the time.

We need to stop using the term “mature neighbourhood” to describe these places. They’re not mature - they’ve been artificially stopped from maturing.

I regularly walk by 8 and 10 storey buildings that are next to low rise. It really wouldn't matter if they were 12 instead.

New speed camera replacement just dropped in Ford’s Ontario

Happy foggy new year May you witness new horrors beyond your comprehension

If terraced massing is the key to infill multifamily housing, then the solution is to build the pyramid

*sigh*

An abundance of women achieving their career dreams in the big city is necessary to support men's small town dreams

FROM: Design Review Board RE: 300m iron tower STATUS: APPLICATION DENIED Proposals must be sensitive to the height, bulk, and scale of its surroundings. A 300m tower is an egregious departure from the neighborhood’s mid rise datum and the use of iron is inconsistent with the vernacular of the area

gold medal

These people are so entrenched in the tall & sprawl mindset that they can't imagine broadly distributed incremental change. They cling to under-planning and then micromanagement of their own plan.

Your regular reminder that it takes a ginormous amount of privilege to claim that our low-density neighbourhoods are "working". (Old data, but story did not change.)

Single Stair changes to the Vancouver building code approved, but this is key - they actually need to be allowed by zoning in places where they're viable to build. Only a 🤏 fraction of the west side directly on major corridors allows multifamily residential and 4+ storeys, with ground floor retail

I'd do anything pro housing, but I won't do that

The quotes from ABC councillors in this article are maddening

As an aside, it's very funny how easily NIMBYs code-switch between decrying cookie-cutter housing and demanding that all new housing exactly match the pre-existing character of the neighborhood

As a non-profit housing CEO, here's why the Social Housing Initiative mattered. It offered a real pathway to build homes for our neighbours in need, without half a million dollars in paperwork. Without 8-12 months of unnecessary delays for projects Council never rejects anyway.