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Originally Posted by mcj
How she is running with OneCity astounds me after reading that. Isn't their entire ethos upzone the whole city? Which would result in development everywhere in a huge area?
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I understand she is on board with the OneCity platform idea (that is largely the upcoming Villages and Neighbourhood Centre updates to the ODP) that more small-scale apartments and expanded commercial spaces be spread across the city.
The Broadway Plan wasn't in any party's platform, but I guess is now a part of the ODP's Rapid Transit Areas, as she appears to be against to breadth of the Broadway Plan (as it goes beyond the TOA policy) and agrees with the toned-down version presented in the TOA policy, which is now the core element of the that Rapid Transit Area section of the ODP. Even though 16th Ave is like a 10 minute walk from Broadway, and the southern edge of the Mount Pleasant Industrial Area, which hosts a crap tonne of jobs.
I personally think she's running on a personal belief of the core charm, vibe, aesthetic Vancouver was / is in some areas. I don't want to play the age card, but I think there is a large demographic that agree with being in a growing city but think they're "losing" the city they know, whether that be at all or simply too quickly in their eyes. You could call it exceptionalism. I think she's running on that.
I also assume she would not have voted along the lines Maloney did for the West End hotel or the Strathcona rental and social housing buildings.
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