Millennium Line - Broadway Extension: Planning & Pre-Construction

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by a very long weekend

@ logan: the city won't do anything but the province could upzone the broadway corridor (or anything else it wanted). there's a great misapprehension among almost everyone, including many on this very board, that the vancouver charter or some imaginary constitution precludes that sort of action, but it doesn't. people are imputing american constitutional norms to canada. in fact (and, of course, at law), the city is a creation of the province and the legislature could do anything it desires, as vancouverites saw with how the province replaced the school board. that includes upzoning the city of vancouver at will. so, if the city situation looks hopeless because the NIMBYs and city property value mafia command the politicians' attention, there's still a path forward: the province. but even there, it's not all that likely, since the NDP won pretty much the entire broadway corridor.

You are living in a fantasy land.