Brian Palmquist

[Brian Palmquist @BrianPalmquist]

My latest analysis of the Villages Plan: https://t.co/sZLOZny2SB

[🐟🇨🇦 'Grumpy Fish' 🇨🇦🐟 @Fishferbrains]

@BrianPalmquist @DouglasTodd @Bill_McCreery It requires a political will that I haven't seen anywhere.
A completion-based expiry of CACs/DCLs/bonuses/discounts etc might be a starter?

[Brian Palmquist @BrianPalmquist]

@DouglasTodd @Bill_McCreery I believe the Vancouver charter allows such entitlements to be revoked simply by repealing a zoning. This only requires a majority vote of Council.

[Brian Palmquist @BrianPalmquist]

@CityHallWchVAN As a result there were lots of citizens who attended and very little opposition at the public hearing.

[Brian Palmquist @BrianPalmquist]

@CityHallWchVAN When we were working on False Creek North there were dozens of well advertised open houses all over the city, with senior members of the planning and design team always in attendance to answer questions and take notes WHICH OFTEN REULTED IN REFINEMENTS TO THE EVOLVING PLANS.

[Brian Palmquist @BrianPalmquist]

@CityHallWchVAN Because citizens know they are for show. Nobody takes notes, all they want is for you to fill in an inline survey that will also be ignored

[Anthony 🏳️‍🌈 @eastsidedads]

this is just wrong. The ONLY thing that makes #vancouver unique is the mountain views. otherwise we're just some 3rd tier coastal town.

[Patrick Condon @pmcondon2]

@DrCameronMurray It’s all about the dirt. Not the bricks.

[Ross @LRoss65543]

@scoopercooper @BcMeggster Then there was Mayor Sim attending United Front meetings in Richmond. Few questioned Sim as to why ( of course no mainstream n
media). Kareem now running for Van mayor defended Sim when he was Sim’s manager. Such stupidity, downside 2 empowering CCP is huge

[Patrick Condon @pmcondon2]

Vancouver people: I will be speaking as part of the Local Focus series on Wednesday, saying that zoning is not the worst thing that ever happened in Vancouver. Far from it.

In truth, its all about the price of the dirt.
https://t.co/cZqTkixHw3

[CityHallWatch @CityHallWchVAN]

Public Hearing Tues May 5. There's been huge interest in this post. Register your views/comments/concerns with City Council on the public record. If C-2A zoning approved, the Titans of Capital will rejoice. But big/bad implications for Vancouver. #vanpoli

[Patrick Condon @pmcondon2]

Excellent (long) article from the perspective of those who think the government should regulate housing MORE rather than LESS:
https://t.co/iGGN1Nclyy
"We can keep arguing over whether more regulation or more units will make housing more affordable. One thing we should be able to agree on is that we need a greater supply of justice. If we center justice, the practical — and, so far, successful — tools of the pro-housing movement become, just that, tools, rather than ends in themselves. The goal should not be deregulation. It must be affordability. And, if we are to organize a broad and powerful coalition around a mass social movement for housing, we must not lose sight of why affordability matters. Affordable housing should protect — and empower — the vulnerable. Unlike housing units or land, justice is not finite. Indeed, it can be a renewable resource if we balance the power of those who have resources to build units with the power of those most affected by the affordability crisis."

[Robert Renger @rrrobbberttt]

Developer Wall Financial is already advertising 225 units for this development, INCLUDING THE EXTRA 14 UNITS instead of amenity space that Council will decide upon tomorrow.

Wall seems absolutely certain that Council will deliver for them.

[Ross @LRoss65543]

Sadly it is now up to citzns to preserve our once great city.
Changes r coming fast: towers, destroying view cones (these will b expensive bc they will hv great views), cuts to services, etc.
Sim & ABC just want to get $ in, get their profits out.

[DouglasTodd @DouglasTodd]

YIYBY = "Yes In Your Back Yard."
Dan Bilsker writes a great little piece about the push by developers and all members of @CityofVancouver council for what he calls "hyper-densification."
"The resistance by residents is called by the developers NIMBYism (Not In My BackYard), and they promote their own virtue with the label YIMBYism (Yes In My BackYard).
"But the realistic alternative narrative is that the developers represent an approach that can best be described as YIYBYism —  Yes In Your Backyard."
"The central problem with the YIYBY approach is that the benefits of development accrue primarily to developers."
https://t.co/suTCmKeDff via @CityHallWchVAN

[Bill McCreery @Bill_McCreery]

@rrrobbberttt What happens to CAC / DLC 'contributions'? Do they go into General Revenue? If so, Sim forcing Planning to sell more density, again and again, helps Sim claim he has a ZERO increased budget.

[Robert Renger @rrrobbberttt]

Another BAIT & SWITCH rezoning
supported by planning

Convert 13,382 sq ft cultural amenity space into 14 condos.
FSR 11.96 < 12.84

Developer to pay $8,700,000 (2022 valuation of amenity)
No CAC for extra FSR (per Real Estate staff)

Council Decision: Tue May 5, 9:30 am

[Patrick Condon @pmcondon2]

Follow up on this project. A friend moved in but was surprised to note that his rent check went,apparently, to the unit owner not the building owner. This would mean, his unit is a condo, right? A condo of this density would have generated millions in community amenity taxes. As a MIRP project all CACs were forgiven. But is it a rental project or a condo? Anyone know?

https://t.co/nlwCwJVOEr

[Local Focus Civic Network @LocalFocusCivic]

The latest in the Community Planning Matters! Speaker Tour: @BrianPalmquist Embrace, Enhance, Evolve - 3 Steps to a better Vancouver
https://t.co/ZjNFIGZVMS

[DouglasTodd @DouglasTodd]

This may be an historic statement from @vaughnpalmer:
"I think it likely that Indigenous leaders and their allies in government knew very well what the DRIPA legislation was likely to produce, a new era where the governing of B.C. is increasingly shared among the province and Indigenous nations.
"Already the province has learned that it cannot amend its own laws without the consent of First Nations.
"As for the premier, I have to think that Sunday was the day he discovered who was really running this province — and it was not David Eby."
#bcpoli
https://t.co/286gQKzQ9n