Josh White

Old vs retrofit. Was great to tour Calling Ministries Deep Energy retrofit of this affordable senior’s housing. It was a partnership among many, including helped by our City of Vancouver retrofit grants. Improved energy performance and livability.

The only good thing about this (as a Canadian and flames fan). The Gaudreaus are the nicest people on earth. Happy for them.

Given the sheer volume of people it will move, the housing (including indigenous led Jericho) and economic potential it will unleash, it needs to be considered a project of national significance.

City-wide Design and Development Guidelines Design and development guidelines to guide how buildings, streets, and public spaces are shaped.

Our new City-wide design and development guide will ultimately rescind about 2200 pages of complex rules and consolidate into one clear, simple playbook. /10

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And we want to ensure excellence of design as we intensify. Simple, clear expression of design expectations and practice will serve this end better than our current extraordinarily layered and complex set of rules… /9

New Vancouver building rules aim to improve safety and housing supply Vancouver approves new space-saving stair designs and Abandoned and Vacated Buildings By-law.

This low rise density will be further bolstered by novel building solutions like our single egress and space efficient egress regulation. More economical to build, requiring less land assembly as well as better unit liveability /8

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Villages planning program 繁體中文 | 简体中文 | Tagalog | Español | ਪੰਜਾਬ | Tiếng Việt The Vancouver Plan identifies 25 Villages envisioned as vibrant hubs with diverse housing options and essential shops and services within a short w...

Next, we need more housing options and more distributed growth model. Villages is a strong example of this different approach. Enabling amenity laden, walkable communities with many housing options across more of Vancouver /7

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There will always be rezoning but it will become less our default implementation process. This shift will be enabled by more predictable policy and development contribution expectations /6

'Sea change:' Vancouver city council rezones thousands of properties in Broadway and Cambie corridors Vancouver's sweeping rezoning of more than 4,200 properties aims to shorten the development process by a year or more.

Second, while rezoning delivering housing approvals is good, ultimately to scale housing long term we need to shift toward establishing area plans setting out the vision for an area and putting the corresponding zoning on the ground, this is where we are heading /5

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There are encouraging early signs that these actions are having positive impact. /4

Vancouver unveils sweeping rescue plan as housing project cancellations loom | Urbanized City of Vancouver staff have released a sweeping set of measures to shore up development viability and preserve the housing pipeline.

First, “no one can live in an approval” and projects are struggling with viability largely due to rising cost to deliver. This is why it was so crucial to implement measures that helped ease cost pressures, including those the municipality directly influences

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This of course is good news in addressing our acute housing crisis, but a few caveats /2

At the City of Vancouver we are in the midst of a extraordinary volume of rezoning. In this Council term, in its first 3 years, Council approved just under 20,000 housing units, in its last 9 months of the term it will consider over another 20,000 housing units via rezoning applications…

Cherry blossoms popping up at Vancouver City Hall today

From the Army and Navy report. More details there too.

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Two major city-building projects approved by Vancouver City council. Over 1000 new rental homes, below market rental, heritage revitalization, hotel, retail and landmark cultural space. Most importantly, both significant catalysts for rejuvenation of key streets/districts in the heart of our city.

1 shooter dead after alert at secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.: RCMP | CBC

Terrible situation out of Tumbler Ridge, a town of 2500 people in northeastern B.C., where an active shooter at a high school is now dead.

We'll be updating this page with information as we confirm it.

Walking down 10th today

‘We will protect them from the digital Wild West.’ Another country will ban social media for under-16s | CNN Business Spain will ban social media for under-16s and require platforms to employ strict age verification tools, joining Australia, France and Denmark in moves to curb the influence of digital platforms on ch...

It seems increasingly evident that algorithmically driven social media and online content, particularly which drives our brains to keep scrolling and scrolling, is both as addictive and as unhealthy and corrosive as smoking.

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Incredibly cleared eyed middle power doctrine.

Vancouver today

Villages planning program 繁體中文 | 简体中文 | Tagalog | Español | ਪੰਜਾਬ | Tiếng Việt The Vancouver Plan identifies 25 Villages envisioned as vibrant hubs with diverse housing options and essential shops and services within a short w...

Council will consider that change alongside the larger Villages program

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Several councillors also expressed desire to expedite changes in the zoning district’s density rules to match and enable changes to single egress stair rules made last month. I’d have loved to have been able to reflect those changes already but it will coming by mid year! /3

Putting the zoning on the ground matching the plan helps speed and scale housing delivery, increasing certainty and significantly reducing approval steps. This is a big part of shift in approach to Vancouver’s planning system. /2

2,600 single-family lots in East Vancouver approved for six-storey apartments | Urbanized Rezoning for six-storey apartments have been approved for single-family areas in the Rupert and Renfrew Station Area Plan of Vancouver.

Vancouver City Council unanimously approved implementation steps on the Rupert + Renfrew Area Plan, including a significant City-Initiated rezoning in the low rise apartment zones of the plan comprising 2580 parcels…

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That’s the good stuff

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