According to this item from CKNW, it sounds like there is planning going on for the park where the Mount Pleasant pool used to sit but there doesn’t seem to be any real effort to figure out how to create a pool. From what I’ve heard from various people, the community is being told that […]
Entries from January 2016
No pool yet for Mount Pleasant park
June 22nd, 2010 · 31 Comments
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NPA to become “Vancouver First”?
June 22nd, 2010 · 29 Comments
Members of Vancouver’s oldest civic political party get to vote June 29 on whether they want to change their name from the Non-Partisan Association (or Civic Non-Partisan Association legally) to Vancouver First. (Full wording of the motion here.) This is the follow-up to a membership meeting a couple of months ago where there was extended […]
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Broadway transit, social housing meetings tonight
June 22nd, 2010 · 16 Comments
The residents are revolting in more places than just the West End. Tonight, two meetings bring them out. One, the Broadway transit group that is coming together of “Not another Cambie” is holding a meeting to rally the troops and hear from speakers they’re likely to agree with. Two,, there is a public hearing at city […]
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Call for new street-food vendors out
June 20th, 2010 · 33 Comments
Ever wanted to run a shrimp-dumpling, bahn mi, or fish-taco cart? Here’s your chance. The city of Vancouver is issuing a call for street-food vendors with “diverse and healthy” offerings as part of its effort to help Vancouver break out of the hog-dog gulag it’s been in for the last several decades. Info on how […]
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Vision fundraiser draws developer crowd, dogged West Enders, and others
June 18th, 2010 · 17 Comments
Dropped by the Vision Vancouver fundraiser Wednesday night, held at the Coast Plaza — just down the street from the St. John’s church site whose proposed redevelopment is causing such an uproar. There’s going into the heart of the dragon’s den or something. West End Neighbours, the new impromptu group that has sprung up to […]
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A quiet STIR project
June 17th, 2010 · 11 Comments
While the STIR projects in the West End have been getting a lot of publicity, STIR (Short Term Incentives for Rental) have been quietly making their way through city hall for other neighbourhoods. When I was at the Marine Gateway urban design panel hearing, this project at 1418 East 41st got a quick approval earlier […]
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West End Neighbours continues its pressure on Vision Vancouver
June 16th, 2010 · 44 Comments
In the last election, Non-Partisan Association organizers were dismayed at their reception in the West End during the campaign. “We gave up phoning because there was no point,” said one. The renters there hated the NPA for not doing more to protect the neighbourhood’s rental buildings, which felt like they were under attack from owners […]
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Dunsmuir bike lane opens, businesses watch warily
June 16th, 2010 · 68 Comments
It was the official opening of the new bike lane in downtown Vancouver yesterday, which gave all us media types a chance to gather on the street at Granville and Dunsmuir and observe an array of unusual driving techniques while we waited for the news conference to begin. My story here. As I and others […]
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Why were UFC negotiations such a tough brawl?
June 14th, 2010 · 19 Comments
I didn’t get too involved in the back and forth in the ongoing drama of the UFC negotiations the last few months, but they were certainly rocky, with any number of media reports that the event was going to be cancelled at various points. Vancouver did seem to have a harder time than other cities […]
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Criminal records now searchable again online for free
June 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Okay, I know many of you urban-planning types don’t really care about whether you can do criminal-record checks until the federal or provincial government introduces new laws regulating crimes against good taste. But I just had to spread the word about this, because it’s such a useful tool for checking on the records of people […]
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