Danny Oleksiuk

people protesting an extra floor at the OV school because of congestion when I will quite literally buy a car to drive up to Ontario & 16th for his current catchment if he can’t get into the OV school

It's okay if you don't want to live in a city, with multi-storey buildings.

Some people do want to, and that's okay too.

The New Vancouver Special - 50' lot edition.

Accessible single stair flats on a 50x122 lot.
12 family size homes (or) 24 small units.

It would be really funny if the Canadian team won

Alejandro Kirk is having a great day

Please join me in voting for Vancouver's worst intersection: Main and 7th.

I lived above this intersection, breathing tire dust and dodging rams, for 5 years. There is an incredible assortment of small businesses and a thriving community here, but the intersection is awful.

Vancouver (Extra) Special

33' lots
4 and 6 storey single-stair buildings.
3Br accessible flats, adjacent to a park.

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it is wild that Vancouver still reserves this land near UBC and Spanish Banks for *massive* mansions. I still think about how Vision voted down a motion to allow apartments and social+seniors housing here

That's the first I've heard of it.

Please allow me to introduce you to my local costco in Vancouver, which is next to Stadium Skytrain Station:

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend Events September 19-21 50+ events and fun things to do around Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. Things to do in Vancouver this weekend September 19-21, 2025.

Events around Metro Vancouver today:

🎶 Orpheum Tours
⚽️ @vancouverrisefc.bsky.social
⚓️ Shipyards Festival
🏁 Car Free Day North Van
🥌 Richmond Curling Open House
🔥 Fire Dragon Festival

and “Vancouver’s Worst Zoning: The Walking Tour”…

thinking, after a pedestrian was killed at 12th and Victoria, about how Vancouver has a 311 app with a million categories and no way to complain about a dangerous intersection

YIMBYism is a rare thing in that it’s a disciplined and effective but largely nonprofessional movement, and if I were a Democratic funder I would spend money on figuring out how to build on that model instead of paying for more issue polls

Episode 97: Single-Stair Buildings and Eco-Districts with Michael Eliason (Incentives Series, pt. 1) - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies We discuss Michael's recent book, Building for People, with a focus on single-stair building code reform and eco-district redevelopment.

Great new episode of UCLA Housing Voice podcast @shanedphillips.bsky.social, featuring @holz-bau.bsky.social on single-stairs & ecodistricts, and how they differ from TOD. Definitely worth the listen to learn more about these issues:

Very frustrating to me that I know of several great state-level advocacy organizations and progressive news outlets scrambling for funding, but the Beltway appears to be full of suitcases of money sitting around for anyone who wants to launch their own I’m Mad at Bluesky Institute

I /could/ be spending the night reading this gorgeous HP Lovecraft book...but instead I'll experience a different sort of weird horror.

I'm going to liveskeet tonight's public hearing! The city wants to actually <gasp> rezone stuff on its own initiative!

I'm old enough to remember when kids played street hockey on Vancouver's streets. Can't remember the last time I saw that.

Reflections on an afternoon bike ride home:

Are we still enforcing traffic laws?

Was there ever a time when we did?

Is it troubling to anyone else that people keep speeding and running red lights and texting and killing thousands of people and nothing changes?

Every time they complain, we add another storey for another 100 kids.

It should actually be like 8 stories

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia Olympic Village school project faces community backlash

The CBC did a story on the NIMBYs fighting the rezoning for the elementary school in the Olympic Village. I'm happy with the quote I got in at the end!

youtu.be/Z8j56MEne0c?...

I find it irritating in Canada to hear people argue that density won’t help with affordability, when it did exactly that for my father‘s immigrant family and many others like them.

I have very little patience for "studios and 1BRs are bad" takes. Basically evidence of low empathy or zero-sum thinking (*everyone* has people in their family+social circles who could benefit from more options and lower price for smaller units)

Bike / Park Oriented Development (BPOD?) !

A motion from OneCity councilor @lucymaloney.bsky.social aims to end the apartment ban next to bike streets and parks!

We need liveable density on quiet leafy streets. Don’t like arterial density? Want alternatives to towers?

Speak in support sept 17

Goats on a roof

BoC governor Tiff Macklem objected to daycare in his neighbourhood as not keeping with its 'heritage nature' Macklem, who was a private citizen at the time, wrote that dropping off and picking up children would 'create serious traffic problems'

Reminds me of this one from the governor of the Bank of Canada: nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

Worried the proposed four storey school won’t fit the character of the neighbourhood? Adding some office space and housing on top of the school fixes that.

Somewhere between 12 and 17 storeys is a good baseline, but to be safe we should add a few extra storeys to future-proof it.

NIMBYing an elementary school is pretty low.

I have no clever comment here, but I invite you to read their letter in the quoted tweet and make up your own minds.

What mysteries lie behind the hedges of Belmont Ave?

Come learn on our next walking tour: VANCOUVER'S WORST ZONING!

When: September 20th, 2 pm
Where: We meet at Belmont & Blanca

RSVP and more details at the Eventbrite page below!