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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · 11h

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Speeding up housing delivery in Broadway and Cambie Corridors

Today, City Council approved new low, mid and high-rise apartments zones in certain areas of Broadway and the Cambie Corridor.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · 11h

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · 11h

Vancouver City Council approved establishment of standardized apartment zoning districts today, as well as a significant City initiated rezoning in the Broadway Plan and Cambie Corridor areas. I delivered these remarks in closing during the item at Council:

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · 2d

*checks in on the Blue Jays score*

a man with long hair is sitting in front of a laptop computer

ALT: a man with long hair is sitting in front of a laptop computer

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · 7d

They know the rules.

Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Sep 4

Broadway Plan matches intensity with mobility - a foundational planning principle.

Change is part of a growing city, however, The City of Vancouver has very strong tenant protections.

The city-initiated zoning approach helps speed new housing delivery.

vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Vancouver accelerating demolitions of lowrise rentals, says former chief planner

City intends to prezone swaths of Broadway, Cambie to make it profitable for highrises. But some say "don't displace" affordable homes

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Sep 3

An important part of the shift in how we plan in Vancouver.

GRIDS Vancouver @grids.reillywood.com · Sep 3

It's official: "Standardized Apartment Districts and City-Initiated Zoning Changes" is going to public hearing on September 16. This is a big deal; Vancouver is finally moving away from its insane "every building gets a new unique zoning district" system council.vancouver.ca/20250916/phe...

Public Hearing - September 16, 2025

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 29

Point being the article suggests Broadway Plan is misaligned with regional plan as some kind of add in.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 29

This article claims that Broadway Plan is an affront to Vancouver’s regional plan and an “attempt to monopolize new jobs”.

This is false. The Broadway Plan area has long been encompassed in the region’s Metro 2050 job structure - not just the downtown peninsula.

vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 28

California State Transit Oriented Development mandates. Echoes very similar discourse from British Columbia. Instead of feeling threatened from such policy, we can lean into it and make it work for our local contexts to help us out of our housing crisis.

Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · Aug 27

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YIMBY and NIMBY Debate on the Front Line of America's Housing Crisis

YouTube video by Pod Save America

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 26

This video does a really solid job of talking through what the City of Vancouver's 'Villages' planning program will bring. Ultimately, it will provide more housing choice, but also enable more of Vancouver to have those great walkable, amenity-laden neighbourhoods.

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This Hidden Vancouver Project Will Change Everything by 2026

YouTube video by LIVING IN VANCOUVER BC

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our housing annual reports detail out these trends.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 26

I've toured with James some of his unique townhouses. He mentioned less use of the HRA policy lately, but I committed to him that if he would like to pursue a project under HRA we would be keen to work with him on it.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 26

Some builders prefer multiplex - as the cost basis can be lower especially without typically having underground parking as in many townhouse projects.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 26

Multiplex has added a lot of volume to family units. Townhouses are still being approved and built - at about the same rate of the 2013-2018 era 100-200 per year post multiplex. Lower than the 2019-2022 era.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 26

As of April 2025: 370 multiplex applications for over 1,500 units
82% of units were 3 or 4 bedroom homes. (99% 2+ bedrooms)

This is a higher ratio than townhouse units...

Vancouver Sun @vancouversun.bsky.social · Aug 26

The City of Vancouver is making it virtually impossible to build townhouses, says a developer who has done just that for the past 15 years. Read more from @douglastodd.bsky.social:

vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Townhouses now almost impossible to build in Vancouver, says developer

Ground-oriented townhouse clusters are now difficult to get underway in Vancouver because of upzoning promoting multiplexes on single lots.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 24

For me, it’s an easy answer - I point to mentors, whom guided and championed me over the years: yourself, Trevor Dickie, Debra Hamilton, Stuart Dalgleish, Melanie Hare, Naheed Nenshi, Chima Nkemdirim, Paul Mochrie, Jyoti Gondek, David Gordon, Thom Mahler, Guy Huntingford.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 24

Müller Mania

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 21

Appreciated the tour from Tim Grant of PCI Developments of newly opening rental tower, with office, second floor grocery store and integrated Skytrain Station. Leading edge of more great things to come in Broadway Plan area.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 11

Vancouver, BC

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Aug 6

Just a solitary seal

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · Jul 24

Housing is always “filtering”, but the direction of filtering is a policy choice. Old housing filters up if housing does not keep up with demand, and down if it does. And it filters down faster if we make up for past shortfalls.

Kevin Erdmann @kevinerdmann.bsky.social · Jul 24

The absence of downward filtering is, definitionally, rent inflation that systematically pushes families out of their housing so that wealthier families can move into it.

Anyone who dismisses "trickle down" housing policy is necessarily supporting that bc that IS the alternative.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Jul 18

That is coming to Council within 12 months. Neighbourhood Centres planning after that, an additional hundreds of blocks more, whereby the majority of the city, and any lands within proximity to transit service will enable apartments.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Jul 18

The balance of areas enabling apartment scale housing is shifting - Broadway Plan, Rupert/Renfrew just approved. Villages being delivered with city-initiated rezoning of these new zoning districts will open several hundred more city blocks to apartment.

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Josh White @jwhiteyvr.bsky.social · Jul 18

*that is not needed

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