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Originally Posted by GenWhy?
This was just before my time. Can you elaborate?
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City of Vancouver
The plan to upzone the Cambie Town centre massively was implemented in 2018: the
last year of the tenureship of the Vision government under Gregor Robertson when he could introduce this much earlier when he became mayor a decade prior in 2008.
https://guidelines.vancouver.ca/policy-plan-cambie-corridor-public-realm.pdf
In 2022, the municipal government under Kennedy Stewart introduced a massive upzone of the Cambie Corridor/Town Centre. Again this could be done earlier on when Kennedy started in 2018.
The fact is that these ex-mayors who did nothing for Vancouver were trying to pull votes, and tried to do something amazing during the election season after realizing they were losing popularity.
British Columbia
Similarly, the NPA made so many horrible policies and decisions in this province harming so many people, and knowing that their popularity slipping, is starting to pull back on a couple of the least popular ones during the last year of tenure (eg. open drug use), introduce one or two policies that people want (eg. massive upzoning of housing near transit centres), and then lie about the opposition that they will oppose what people prefer to see. Unfortunately, many of our compatriots are just naive to believe them.
These actions are not dissimilar to what those ex-mayors and their governments were doing. They spend more time doing harm than doing good for the jurisdictions they govern.
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