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Originally Posted by kikin
need constant police beat patrol presence and constant cleaning, it can work but if they let things slide at all the negatives could ruin everything faster than it takes to build confidence back into shoppers and diners and partiers
Sim needs to keep pressure on the province to keep the SRO's and injection sites away too, it feels like you give them an inch and they will try to wedge one in among our neighbourhoods again when we aren't looking
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With all due respect, that's a pretty naive answer to a challenging problem.
If anything, other neighbours will just absorb the displacement from the Granville Strip.
No new SROs means people on the street stay on the street. Besides, ABC passed a no new supportive housing motion in 2025 (
https://www.nsnews.com/bc-news/vancouver...g-housing-minister-disappointed-10295534).
And no new injection sites means people who would otherwise use in those sites will use and dispose of their needles in the public. Not that they wouldn't anyway, but it would take away the opportunity for that use to be out of the public.
Getting back to the topic, I do agree that the pedestrianized area is nice and should be maintained, though once the energy and enthusiasm of visitors/patrons because of the world cup dissipate, I do question whether what's been done in the area is enough or should whether it needs to go further (as opposed to, for example, the half-baked attempts in Gastown a couple years ago), particularly on rainy days, which while less common in the summer do happen. The last rainy weekday did show that people aren't as willing to turn out when the weather's poor. Anyway, if it does go ahead, it will require proactivity from the City. And suffice to say that your proposal is rather shallow and misses the forest for the trees, no offence.
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