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Originally Posted by GenWhy?
I think most cities I've worked in have a body like the UDP. Some don't have enough power.
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Jon Stowell articulates my point far better than I can;
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It’s now reached the point where you go into the city planning department with a great idea — for example our workforce housing project at 1075 West Georgia, they don’t really have the culture or maybe the opportunity to look back at the macro pros and cons of a project like that — they just go into this checklist mode — into a process into finding out why you can’t do what you’ve proposed, instead of standing back and looking at it holistically,
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I have posted a version of this 100 times around here. Any government related process here feels like asking someone why you can't do something.
"Cant" is the default. Finding out why you can't is the process. Its sad, really.
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That really is the big problem right now. The city is doing well politically — they’re signalling that they want to solve the affordability crisis, but at the regulatory and bureaucratic level, they haven’t been able to push that new set of values through, and figure out how to tell their staff, it’s OK, if something doesn’t tick every box, just bring it forward and let the decision makers see whether to help it or not.
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This is an eloquent way of saying the city operates like a brain dead bureaucracy. No room for common sense, simple policy, or solutions to problems. Its a policy of check boxes and "we can't." Sad, once again.
And finally, I tons of my posts, and plenty other too, echoing this sentiment. We have horrendous leadership. People are scared to make bold decisions, and were all paying for it;
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Stovell says the best example of Vancouver getting the approach right is when former Vancouver Mayor, and later premier, Gordon Campbell, rezoned the entire Downtown South neighbourhood on one fell swoop, as opposed to individual rezoning applications.
“It took the whole area from 1 FSR to 5 FSR and led to a 20-year development cycle of all of the condominiums you see along Richards, along Homer — relatively affordable at the time.”
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In order to change you have to
make changes.
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Looked like they were putting up barriers around floor openings and generally making the site more secure. Sad to see.
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