Vancouver City Council will decide on a new area plan that densifies 6.6 sq km of land around #SkyTrain's Rupert & Renfrew stations. Adding 19,000 residents & 8,000 jobs, with new tower allowances up to 45 storeys near stations. #TOD #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/rupe…

Mosaic of 7 crucial urban planning & rezoning related votes by Vancouver City Council on 8-Jul-2025. Some involved serious bait-and-switch, public deception, policy violation, bad planning, enabling bad developer behaviour. Even with COPE there is now NO OPPOSITION on Council.

Amid confusion, Vancouver pushes for social housing highrises across the city Almost 1/3 of the city (purple) is being targeted for social-housing highrises, despite concerns they aren't healthy for residents, esp. families #vanre #vanpoli #bcpoli 1/3 vancouversun.com/opinion/column…

447 page report dropped with less than 3 days for public review in the middle of summer. Is this how you can build trust in a planning process and a mayor and council? #vanpoli #vanre

1668 West Broadway (btw Fir & Pine), 26-storey tower with 100% market rental units proposed. Q&A open July 16-29, 2025. #vanpoli #BroadwayPlan cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/166…

"Troubled Vancouver luxury tower project shows flaws in housing policy" as told by Kerry Gold /via The Globe and Mail #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/va…

Rezoning at existing rental building site at 2611 Victoria Drive. 26-storey tower application was received by the City on Jan 17, 2025, hidden from the public during the Safeway site towers public hearing #vanpoli

Solving the #housingcrisis ? Mark Carney knows what not to do “The question is whether Ottawa should “intervene” in a sector that been held aloft by a speculative #investment bubble which has finally burst The answer, I’d argue, is absolutely not” thestar.com/opinion/contri…

As BC pushes for more housing and greater density, the province’s high rise concrete residential development sector is melting down into an economic crisis. My latest for BCBusiness: bcbusiness.ca/industries/rea…

Tune in to CBC On The Coast 4:30pm today (July 29). Two profs go head-to-head debate "Can Canada Build Its Way out of the Housing Crisis?" @Tomdavidoff (flood market with supply) vs Patrick Condon (see expert memo to Carney + Robertson on housing) #vanpoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/0…

"The bogus idea that will not die." Don Wright, former head of B.C.'s civil service under NDP premier John Horgan, offers a devastating argument against 9 years of Justin Trudeau's record-high migration policies. #cdnimm Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 Andrew Griffith 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/donwright/…

A 32-storey tower with 176 rental homes and office, retail & restaurant uses is proposed next to #SkyTrain's Broadway-City Hall Station. It will have zero vehicle parking. #TOD #vancre #vanre #vanpoli dailyhive.com/vancouver/365-…

Hot off the presses. Blockbuster FOI revelations about who's really guiding tower density policies. "The Coriolis Effect, Part IV: When Viability Becomes Destiny. The #BroadwayPlan as Case Study" by Erick Villagomez spacing.ca/vancouver/2025…

.David Eby today dismissed concerns his office has hired a comedian to write jokes into his speeches, saying Charlie Demers has so far only billed $14k out of a $150k/annual contract this year. Not totally accurate. Records show Demers has been paid $90,370 the past 2 years also

*Who* behind the curtain is helping formulate provincial housing/transit legislation. Who benefits, who loses? This deserves a lot more public scrutiny. Tip of the iceberg. #vanpoli #BroadwayPlan #bcpoli

How can the owner of 3 B.C. malls and a mansion not be 'a resident of Canada for tax purposes'? Billionaire Weihong Liu, who is trying to buy up much of the @HudsonsBay, says she's a citizen of China. And that's where she lists her address. 1/2 vancouversun.com/opinion/column…

Vancouver is not a blank slate. It is a city built neighbourhood by neighbourhood, generation by generation. Any citywide plan that ignores neighbourhoods is not a community plan at all. It's simply a development plan.

The proposed new Official Development Plan (ODP) for Vancouver is a betrayal of Vancouverites and another example of NDP Bigfoot governance. We don't want clarity and transparency; we want this to stop. The City of Vancouver needs to tell the provincial government that the ODP

I was interviewed earlier today regarding the problems with the proposed Vancouver Development Plan. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the…

1-in-3 Metro Vancouver residents are unaware the Broadway Subway being built ends at Arbutus Station, requiring a bus trip to UBC for the remaining leg, according to a survey. 76% support the #UBC SkyTrain extension from Arbutus. #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/ubc-…