Yes but have you seen the intense pushback from municipalities in BC after reasonable provincial directives to reform zoning etc? And the creative methods used to dodge new laws?

Saying this from the subregion with the highest rents in Canada

Let’s not let local politicians off the hook :)

“When we compare the three most unaffordable cities in 2005, 2015 and 2025, they share a defining feature: all of them are located in areas with stricter zoning and land-use rules”

Try living in a 600 sqft apartment where you run out of closets for your kids to sleep in before talking to me about housing stress

Thanks for making this easy

“I’m an essential healthcare worker who works near this area. Me and my family recently moved out of CoV cause it is too hard to have a family here. Access to schools is just one part of that problem. You can make a meaningful improvement today by approving this school"

Love the use of “towers” to describe something that is literally not a tower

What size are the homes on the inside?

Should the many shoebox apartments designed/built to be short-term rental investments even be counted as housing supply?

Always seems to me like that is misleading us, since they are more like hotels, investments, or commodities than homes

Cafe on 17th on the upcoming bike route, a good stop before the new overpass? 🙂

Fair, but until then reducing car trips for other reasons like parks or schools is still less car dependence. 100% car independence is a high bar

What a great idea
I like Queensbury village. Would love to see it grow

If you agree that CNV should have inclusive and balanced growth, let them know! Say you want an OCP and zoning that add family housing near parks, schools, and transit, not one that reinforces exclusivity

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Despite protections to heritage buildings and the its park, school, and transit infrastructure, GB is our lowest density area

The biggest yards, next to our biggest park

It’s heritage “area” designation excludes new residents and turns our most amenity-rich hood into a de facto house museum

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GB has some beautiful and cherished heritages homes. Fortunately the 17 (13%) that surround the boulevard are already protected

The oldest homes are also taller and larger than ones built after 1920, a strong precedent for adding larger buildings for more housing without changing character

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Grand Boulevard is a transportation corridor

It has 1/3 of our buses (inc. frequent 240 to downtown), current and future cycling routes, and is near the highway. It’s always connected Lower Lonsdale and Lynn Valley: 100 years ago an electric street car ran up the park to Lynn Headwaters!

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Grand Boulevard has CNV’s highest concentration of schools

Sadly in recent decades, most net-new family-sized homes were added along Lonsdale and 3rd street (white map areas). That makes walking/riding to school harder, increasing traffic and promoting car dependence from an early age

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Grand Boulevard is CNV’s largest landscaped park!

It’s about 1/4 of our non-forested park space (including sports fields). Getting more folks living near parks is already a CNV goal, so this alone should be reason enough

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Despite protections to heritage buildings and the its park, school, and transit infrastructure, GB is our lowest density area

The biggest yards, next to our biggest park

It’s heritage “area” designation excludes new residents and turns our most amenity-rich hood into a de facto house museum

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