Must-read from @fabulavancouver in @bcbusiness — why Lower Mainland transit matters to all BC

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— Catherine Mullaly (@c_mullaly) July 30, 2014

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RT @mattogee: A must-read from @fabulavancouver in @bcbusiness on why Lower Mainland transit matters to all B.C.: http://t.co/xqbzfXLp7n
— NanaimoCommons (@NanaimoCommons) July 31, 2014

From SUNN: Vancouver Historic Quartiers BC Fee-simple Attached Housing Now Legal

This building was built under strata legislation. The owners hold the property in common and must deal with issues as a collective. With the new legislation, each unit will have the legal entity of a single house. Expect changes in design. No more underground parking, common roofs, and shared landscaping. Also expect changes in use. Individual units will generate more opportunities for rental housing. We see major changes to the feel and functioning of the neighbourhood as well. In these matters, small changes can usher in great qualitative differences. Photo: http://sunnvancouver.wordpress.com/ 

Slipping below the radar, in the first week of June 2012, the Provincial Legislature passed a small amendment that made legal a form housing in this region that had been banned from the outset. As a result “the missing link” in Vancouver urbanism is now approved and ready for construction. Fee-simple (clear-title) attached housing is now legal to build in British Columbia for the fist in a long time. There really are no examples I can point to of row houses built here in the last 150 years. Row houses are there, but always missing one important feature or another. We have premised the Vancouver Historic Quariters analysis on just this reversal in policy. Read more about the implications of this change for Vancouver urbanism here. Read more: One Decision Our Way | SUNN: Vancouver Historic Quartiers

From Frances Bula's blog: http://www.francesbula.com/uncategorized/rowhouses-missing-from-vancouver-in-the-past-about-to-arrive-in-the-future/

From The Globe and Mail — Crossed Signals

TRANSPORTATION

Crossed signals: Reducing the risk of pedestrian death in Vancouver

FRANCES BULA

VANCOUVER— Saturday's Globe and Mail

“We have been designing roads that are killing about 1.3 million people a year. And we’re getting away with it by blaming the road user,”

A 74-year-old woman was hit at Robson and Howe downtown in broad daylight by an SUV on March 6 and died later that afternoon.

A 75-year-old woman was hit and killed at the intersection of 41st Avenue and Ross Street in southeast Vancouver 11 days later. A 29-year-old woman was critically injured in yet another car-and-pedestrian crash March 31 at the intersection of Broadway and Rupert Street.

Read more: Crossed signals: Reducing the risk of pedestrian death in Vancouver - The Globe and Mail

Vancouver Planning Chief Toderian Given the Axe

FRANCES BULA
VANCOUVER— From Tuesday's Globe & Mail
The Vision city council is terminating the contract of former mayor Sam Sullivan’s most high-profile hire, planning director Brent Toderian. According to sources, Mr. Toderian was told last week that his contract is being ended “without cause.”

Maleks Buy New Property Listed at $4.9-Million - The Globe and Mail

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VANCOUVER— From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 10:43PM EST

The Malek brothers made a place in history in Vancouver after their Olympic village development ran head-on into a financial crisis during the world economic meltdown, which forced the city first to bail them out, then take over their near-$1-billion loan.

PARKING PRICES

Vancouver Tax Hike Drives Home Message That Cars Have No Place Downtown - The Globe and Mail

FRANCES BULA

VANCOUVER— From Saturday's Globe

Vancouver’s battle against the car downtown has been so successful that parking lots saw sharp declines in use last year.

Thanks to a 35-per-cent tax hike on parking, the seductive appeal of the Canada Line, and a mantra that cars are bad and any other form of locomotion is good, the city’s parking corporation, EasyPark, saw a 9-per-cent drop in lot use.

Where Portland Does Better Than Vancouver

URBAN PLANNING

Vancouver Would be Wise to Emulate Portland

FRANCES BULA

PORTLAND

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

Published Wednesday, Sep. 07, 2011 

We’d started with breakfast at Pine State Biscuits, part of the Alberta Arts District that has sprung up in this northeast part of Portland, eating our biscuits and gravy at picnic tables in the restaurant’s side yard.

Lunch was chicken burritos at the food-cart pod in the Mississippi neighbourhood – just a tiny constellation among the 642 food carts in the Portland area – and a stroll past shops filled with antiques, bikes and local-designer clothing.

Profile of Architect Gregory Henriquez

Frances Bula

Vancouver Magazine

June 1, 2011 Gregory Henriquez inherited his architectural zeal from his well-known father. But where Richard designs poetic buildings to suit their location, his son wants to create a more meaningful world...