https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/...el-challenges/
At stake are millions of dollars the South Vancouver Parks Society asserts are or were vastly under-assessed at the following four sites:
- 508 Helmcken Street (soon to become a 35-storey tower on Emery Barnes Park, downtown, swapped at $15 million now assessed at $130 million)
- Oakridge Centre (41st Avenue and Cambie) (recently sold to new owner). Had a privately-arranged $367 million assessment reduction.
- 949 West 41st Avenue (former transit site) (recently sold to new owner for $432,256,000). The July 31, 2016 assessment was for $170,882,000
- Langara Gardens (Lower Cambie)
@FeeSimplePark
http://vanparks.ca/
Go get 'em, the public can buy amenities without Vision and their partners taking a skim. Time for some accounting at city hall, starting with granting building rights (they are granting more than ever, when the market price per sq.ft. is more than ever, and yet the public is receiving less than ever. Guess what the CoV doesn't keep track of.
Something isn't right)
related:
The City of Vancouver is lagging behind all other major governments when it comes to response times for freedom of information requests, says an audit conducted by Newspapers Canada, a media advocacy group.
Freedom of information requests are submitted by the public to access information held by government bodies. According to Newspapers Canada's yearly audit, the city of Vancouver takes longer than any other major government with an average of 53 days per request before a response is issued.
Organization CEO John Hinds said such FOI requests are supposed to be processed in 30 days according to standard provincial and federal timelines.
"They're the worst in the country in terms of speed," Hinds said, adding Vancouver was given an F grade by the audit for speed and was mediocre when it came to disclosure.
Whether it's Tim Stevenson taking a $100,000 trip funded by Rennie & Wall, or Geoff Meggs caught on tape promising not to invite any private companies to compete against CUPE provided services for $226,000 in election donations... Vision Vancouver will end up like Vision Montreal, except that Vision Montreal lasted 20 years before it became defunct after a bribery scandal
Adrianne Carr of the Green Party tried to change the political donation laws so that donations are reported in real-time, all the time and not just during elections, with a ban on corporations and unions. Andrea Reimer of VV didn't like that because she's been working on reforming donations for 12 years now.
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