At the City of Vancouver we are in the midst of a extraordinary volume of rezoning. In this Council term, in its first 3 years, Council approved just under 20,000 housing units, in its last 9 months of the term it will consider over another 20,000 housing units via rezoning applications…

Cherry blossoms popping up at Vancouver City Hall today

Two major city-building projects approved by Vancouver City council. Over 1000 new rental homes, below market rental, heritage revitalization, hotel, retail and landmark cultural space. Most importantly, both significant catalysts for rejuvenation of key streets/districts in the heart of our city.

Terrible situation out of Tumbler Ridge, a town of 2500 people in northeastern B.C., where an active shooter at a high school is now dead. We'll be updating this page with information as we confirm it.

It seems increasingly evident that algorithmically driven social media and online content, particularly which drives our brains to keep scrolling and scrolling, is both as addictive and as unhealthy and corrosive as smoking. www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/t...

Incredibly cleared eyed middle power doctrine.

Vancouver today

Vancouver City Council unanimously approved implementation steps on the Rupert + Renfrew Area Plan, including a significant City-Initiated rezoning in the low rise apartment zones of the plan comprising 2580 parcels… dailyhive.com/vancouver/ru...

That’s the good stuff

Sydney

Melbourne

Housing Policy and Regulatory shifts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: dailyhive.com/vancouver/do...

Going to be in Australia soon for a couple weeks. Looking for some tips from the (planner-type) community on some neighbourhoods or maybe interesting developments to make sure not to miss while in Melbourne and Sydney. Things to learn from.

A bystander seen in a widely circulated video disarming a gunman during a deadly shooting rampage at a popular Australian beach is being heralded as a hero who saved lives.

Sydney Opera House

Maybe the funniest movie ever made - This is Spinal Tap. RIP Rob Reiner.

A significant move Vancouver made this week was moving forward with enabling novel Single Egress & Space Efficient Stairs. Led by the great team in Development, Buildings & Licensing, supported closely by Vancouver Fire Rescue Service; and Planning this will be transformative for low-rise apartments

Today, the City of Vancouver took assertive steps toward addressing the cost challenges confronting building housing. Prices and rents have levelled and begun to decline, which is great news for affordability, however costs to deliver remain stubbornly high.... vancouver.ca/news-calenda...

I spoke to Dan Fumano about proposed actions to address costs affecting development viability to help unlock new housing supply. Prices and rents are dropping, which is good, but costs need commensurately go down if we are to keep building housing. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Lest we forget

Into classical music? My brother’s concert - bass quartet at Jericho Arts Centre Dec 3! www.bassmas.ca

Very happy for that plucky underdog the LA Dodgers.

Jays left 22 stranded games 6 and 7. Just couldn’t buy a hit when it really mattered.

YES!!!!

Ohtani just doesn't have his stuff. HAVE to take advantage now!

Jays have stranded an insane number of base runners the last 10-11 innings of play

Jays!

Whomever wins this game should just get 2 wins.

Grand slam!!!!!!!!!!!

The NBA is BACK on NBC 🦚🏀 #NBASky #SkyHoops

This makes me so happy. Nostalgia overload - all while my team is getting their rings and banner. Perfect.

George's full AB with in stadium audio only.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 32 YEARS, THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE WORLD SERIES BOUND! THEY DEFEAT THE SEATTLE MARINERS 4-3 IN GAME 7!

Baseball!

SkyDome atmosphere as electric as ever.

Vancouver's Dedicated Fire Protection System is really neat. An earthquake-resistant firefighting water supply system to supply the denser parts of the city and VGH

An absolutely unreal performance from Shohei Ohtani to complete the Dodgers' NLCS sweep 🧹

THE BLUE JAYS TAKE GAME 3 OF THE ALCS! 🇨🇦

Finally got around to playing with TransLink realtime GTFS data. Kind of fun. Transit in Vancouver is looking pretty good, especially considering this is an hour midday on a holiday weekend, with some lines not running (hello 44) and not all buses reporting real-time information.

A Redditor made a graph of the percent of population of US and Canada metro areas over 1 million that live in a given density. When they ordered them by average density the lowest ranked Canadian metro area, Edmonton, was ranked 14th between Miami and Washington. 6 of the top 15 were Canadian metros

OH NO. HE. DIDN'T!!!

Vancouver City Council approved establishment of standardized apartment zoning districts today, as well as a significant City initiated rezoning in the Broadway Plan and Cambie Corridor areas. I delivered these remarks in closing during the item at Council:

*checks in on the Blue Jays score*

Broadway Plan matches intensity with mobility - a foundational planning principle. Change is part of a growing city, however, The City of Vancouver has very strong tenant protections. The city-initiated zoning approach helps speed new housing delivery. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

An important part of the shift in how we plan in Vancouver.

This article claims that Broadway Plan is an affront to Vancouver’s regional plan and an “attempt to monopolize new jobs”. This is false. The Broadway Plan area has long been encompassed in the region’s Metro 2050 job structure - not just the downtown peninsula. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

California State Transit Oriented Development mandates. Echoes very similar discourse from British Columbia. Instead of feeling threatened from such policy, we can lean into it and make it work for our local contexts to help us out of our housing crisis.

This video does a really solid job of talking through what the City of Vancouver's 'Villages' planning program will bring. Ultimately, it will provide more housing choice, but also enable more of Vancouver to have those great walkable, amenity-laden neighbourhoods. youtu.be/OJtotvMq2ls?...

As of April 2025: 370 multiplex applications for over 1,500 units 82% of units were 3 or 4 bedroom homes. (99% 2+ bedrooms) This is a higher ratio than townhouse units...