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helen (she/her) @helenl.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Danny Oleksiuk @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 5d

The New Vancouver Special - 50' lot edition.

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

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Danny Oleksiuk @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social · 8d

It would be really funny if the Canadian team won

Danny Oleksiuk @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social · 10d

Alejandro Kirk is having a great day

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Danny Oleksiuk @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social · 15d

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.

Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 15d

We started with 32, nominated by you. We're down to TWO intersections in the Worst Intersection in Metro Vancouver finals!

Main & 7th & Kingsway? Or No. 3 Rd & Sea Island Way & Bridgeport Rd? Only one can emerge victorious. Vote now!

visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/09/23/w...

What’s the worst intersection in Metro Vancouver? (FINALE)

The semi-final votes are in: you’ve narrowed our 32 intersections down to the Grand Finale, pitting Vancouver’s triangular terror at Main & Kingsway against Richmond’s chaotic…

visionzerovancouver.ca

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 16d

Vancouver (Extra) Special

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

(sketchup / ai render)

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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 17d

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

Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 18d

On a walking tour of $tens-of-millions mega mansions in Point Grey (no sidewalks), which areq the only properties legally allowed to be built under the local zoning, @pwaldkirch.bsky.social asks "is this really the best thing we could be doing with this land?"

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Danny Oleksiuk @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social · 18d

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

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Danny Oleksiuk @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social · 18d

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

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d

this exists it is called thinking

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.

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 18d

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”…

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.

miss604.com

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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 20d

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

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 21d

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:

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.

www.lewis.ucla.edu

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Peter Waldkirch @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 21d

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!

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Danny Oleksiuk @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social · 22d

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

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Danny Oleksiuk @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social · 22d

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?

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Danny Oleksiuk @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social · 22d

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

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helen (she/her) @helenl.bsky.social · 22d

It should actually be like 8 stories

Peter Waldkirch @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 24d

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?...

Olympic Village school project faces community backlash

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

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Peter Waldkirch @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 24d

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?...

Olympic Village school project faces community backlash

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

youtu.be

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · 24d

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)

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 26d

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

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