Cambie Corridor Updates

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Originally Posted by Prometheus

Among other things, the Cambie Corridor Plan is a lost opportunity to move Vancouver ubanity foward in a meaningful way. Outside the scattered, pre-existing commercial nodes and a few isolated exceptions, the plan does not introduce any new urban amenities along the corridor. Outside the few exceptions, if you felt you had to drive to reach basic urban amenities before, then the Plan will not change your feelings; if your walk to access basic urban amenities was inconvenient before, then the plan will not shorten it. For the most part, the Cambie Corridor Plan increases density but only marginally; it increases density but not the availability of urban amenities--the very urban amenities that a more meanignful increase in allowed use and density would have brought. The majority of the corridor was a suburban street before the Plan, and the majority of the corridor will be a suburban street after the Plan, despite the corridor now having a subway running along it. Much of the corridor will have more people, but not more urban amenities for those people to enjoy.

That is in part due to the fact that the City is allocating the bulk of CAC money to subsidized affordable housing and not urban amenities.