Vancouver
Citywide Gathering of Neighbourhoods at City Hall
Focus on Problems with Rezoning and Planning
6:00pm
Tuesday July 26 2011
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Citywide Gathering of Neighbourhoods at City Hall
Focus on Problems with Rezoning & Planning
Neighbourhoods, groups, and individuals city-wide are invited to converge in front of City Hall to share information, connect the dots, tell our stories, and talk about fixing the broken planning system in our city.
Vancouver's Planning/Rezoning Process is BROKEN. Let's start FIXING it.
Tuesday — 26 July 2011
South Entrance of Vancouver City Hall
453 West 12th Ave at Cambie Street
Gather at 6:00 pm
Event starts at 6:20 and runs to 7:10 pm
(Public hearing on two huge rezonings begins at 7:30 pm)
CityHallWatch.ca — with support from Neighbourhoods for a
Sustainable Vancouver (NSV) — calls on neighbourhoods, groups,
and individuals to show up on the steps of City Hall. More info
about flow and format will be added soon to .
Recent examples of Vancouver's broken planning/rezoning processes:
• Massive rezoning: Shannon Mews at 7101-7201 Granville (at 54th-57th Ave. with huge impacts on community; 735 new units, seven new buildings, and an estimated 1600 persons)
• Massive rezoning: 105-167 West 2nd Ave (at Manitoba St., 488 market residential units, beside 1/3 unsold Olympic Village) Massive rezoning at the Cambie and Marine Gateway project
• Council recently approved Norquay/Kingsway and Arbutus Village Shopping Centre rezonings
• The Pantages site at 138 East Hastings steamrolls toward approval with no opportunity for public input
Time after time, City Council is approving projects despite opposition from the overwhelming majority of views expressed from the community.
Note also that on July 28, Council will decide on a staff report to Council on "enhanced community planning" processes. Implications for neighbourhoods could be huge.
Things you can do:
(1) Be in front of City Hall on July 26
(2) Email in a brief statement for public display
(3) Speak to agenda items at the July 26th Public Hearing
(4) Find out how other neighbourhoods are suffering from the broken planning system.
Endorsed by: Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver
More Info: www.CityHallWatch.ca — citizenYVR@gmail.com
Announcement released 18 July 18 2011
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