General Vancouver Updates

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https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applicatio...ts/6161CambieSt-SustainabilityReport.PDF






https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/1940mainst/documents/perspectives.pdf

December 10th Public Hearing – East Van Residents Hope To Save Beloved School As Sonder Claus Plans To Visit Main Street
December 10th, 2019 Public Hearing –

The first of two public hearings scheduled for this week is one Hannah and I expect to be over quickly and quietly. That’s because none of these applications have drawn the ire faced by a MIRHPP proposal in Kitsilano which will be on heard Thursday night. In fact, one has to wonder why any of these items were even subjected to this process as they’ve drawn little opposition, and didn’t receive any recommendations from the Urban Design Panel.

We imagine the first one, the expansion of the community facilities at the Alliance Française, will draw widespread support. Meanwhile, the second, a four-storey building less than a block from the Canada Line’s Langara-49th Avenue station, is born from a plan that failed to predict our city’s affordability crisis.

As the lack of family housing has lowered enrollment numbers at some schools to levels that have put them in danger of closing, it’s no wonder the residents of Kiwassa are eager to support the addition of a large amount of family housing to their neighbourhourhood.

This is probably why the last proposal, which will bring 49 strata homes and 37 spaces of city-owned daycare to Mount Pleasant, has also failed to generate any anger. That said, we don’t know what the reaction will be to a last-minute change which will see Sonder operate some of its strata homes as hotel suites for likely at least the next five years.

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2019/12/09...sonder-claus-plans-to-visit-main-street/