Justin McElroy 馃嚚馃嚘 @jmcelroy.bsky.social 路 6d "Now, this is not totalitarian. Democracy is happening. The democratically elected mayor of Vancouver announced this idea three years ago." Here's my story on Day 1 of the public hearing for Vancouver's villages rezoning proposal, and why it looks like an uphill battle. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
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She has no clue or have never experienced what totalitarian is. I am ashamed of these Vancouverites. Maybe they should move to West Van
Infeasible on numbers alone but a bracket ranking of the most dramatic city hall public comment moments would be something.
Same idea as North Van with Lynn Valley and Edgemont Village?
Beautiful pregnant pause between "this" and "is a chart" 馃搳
People really seem to forget that they live in a city...
So much drama! No-one鈥檚 forcing anyone to move out, I assume?
instead of a straw poll on the will of Vancouverites, these hearings are a form of class warfare. They are captured by a small fraction of the wealthiest citizens, who likely want to wield municipal law against the poorest in the community to protect their own assets. thewalrus.ca/rich-block-a...
Let鈥檚 accept a fundamental truth: planners (Toderian excepted) have completely failed all future residents of this city - including the children who grew up here - by bending over backwards to the legacy homeowners who want their neighborhoods treated like suburbs instead of walkable communities
ngl if I'd known about it when we were choosing a home last year I wouldn't have picked one of the villages, but it's because I'm not going to survive a decade of 8h/day of construction noise and vibration without going insane