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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 1m

Y'all, I didn't realize how bad this budget motion in Vancouver was until I watched the Council meeting for the last 15 minutes. It's fundamentally massive austerity sanitized through bureaucracy.

Of note: ABC is not acknowledging their previous commitments to transparency re: providing line items.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 27m

Listening to Vancouver Council and am blown away by how well informed residents are about taxation and then take the time to call in to discuss their position in favour of maintaining public services.

TL;DR good hearted Vancouverites believe in the power of taxation and wealth distribution.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 4h

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

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PEA @pea.org · 5d

FUND THE FRONTLINES - MARCH ON THE LEGISLATURE

Monday, October 6
Gather at 11 AM at Centennial Square for the march. Rally at the Legislature in Victoria starts 12 PM.

✊ Join us for a march on the Legislature on October 6 when the fall legislative session begins.

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Lucy O’Brien @psketti.ca · 2d

Reminder that you can have your say in Victoria’s transit network! The survey stays open til October 26!

Lucy O’Brien @psketti.ca · 8d

BC Transit is refreshing its local planning strategy. an Engagement Survey is open October 1-26, and takes 20-30 minutes.

When the survey goes live Wednesday it can be found here: engage.bctransit.com/victoria-reg... (1/3)

Victoria Regional Transit Plan

In collaboration with the CRD and other area partners, BC Transit is seeking input into the long-term goals and network design priorities for the Victoria Regional Transit Plan. The Victoria Regional ...

engage.bctransit.com

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 4d

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Now for a nice walk home with a lil fast food pit stop as a treat. BDS-compliant, of course.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Motion to adjourn. Congratulations, @victoria.ca , for moving into the future, whatever it looks like.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Motion approving the related Rezoning and Development Policy and Downtown Core Area Plan passes with Coleman, Gardiner, Hammond opposed.

Motion to rescind relevant guidelines, plans, policies that need to be rescinded passes unanimously.

Mayor checking we've concluded everything....

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Mayor: "I believe everyone who can speak has done so!" referencing how people have run our their time.

This suite of bylaws adoption passes with Coleman, Gardiner, Hammond opposed.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Related City-related bylaws (like amenity cost charges, tenant protection, affordable housing standards, etc) up for vote. Coleman is asking to separate the items, and Mayor rules that it can't be done after having considered it.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Third reading for OCP-suite of bylaws passed with Coleman, Gardiner, Hammond opposed.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Mayor: "This is not perfect at all, let's be frank" but it was a big task and there's a vision here. Speaks in favour.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Mayor: Particularly pleased about the blue-green network and the attention paid to public spaces. A good reflection of the fact that we're living in increasingly smaller spaces, and how we should be civil and all care for one another.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Mayor: Doesn't think the tenant assistance doesn't go far enough, but similarly is keen to look at it again in the next few years.

[I agree on this too.]

Would rather not have random changes to the City. Density distributed across the City is fair.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Mayor Alto: "I'm really quite disappointed there wasn't an appetite to include the analysis for James Bay being a Heritage Conservation District. I understand there are challenges with that but I believe those challenges were surmountable."

[I agree.]

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Motion to postpone fails with just Gardiner and Hammond in favour.

Hammond is out of time, so even if he still has the floor we are moving along.

Mayor is last person to speak on the OCP main motion.

Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Thompson speaks quickly to oppose. Coleman and Kim with time remaining add nothing. Mayor speaks and says she understands the Housing Needs Report is the requirement, and introducing a different source would not meet our planning needs.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Staff: Roughly 8k units unmet based on variety of indicators. Likely nothing would change that figure now. Contemplated a range of latent demand; high end of that range was closer to 11k.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Staff: Latent demand City has been operating with early on in this process has been in line with indicators for latent demand in the market.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Loughton asks staff to comment on how latent demand would be reflected in this.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Staff: Housing Needs Report needs to be updated every 5 years under legislation. But there's nothing stopping us from considering it earlier as long as the most up to date census data is available.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Staff: "The legislation does require the OCP to consider the City's most recently approved housing needs report, which is what this OCP does." The OCP can be revisited based on another housing needs report, which in itself would need to be re-opened up for that kind of purpose.

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Hammond's timer beeped. No more time! Mayor asks staff if they have any initial top of mind comments, and/or thoughts on what impacts this may or may not have in the process in which we find ourselves at the moment.

Staff asks for repeat of question because they're busy looking up info!

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Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · 5d

Mayor notes that Gardiner has one second left to motivate. Hammond has 1:30.

Peering over the Mayor's shoulder at her timer screen, I can see I have only 2:20!

Hammond motivates now, says inspired by Mayor's earlier amendment that could stretch out the process timeline.

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