Thanks for all your actions in July! Here is an update.

Thanks to your responses to a record number of rezoning public hearings in July, a number of important issues have been postponed to this fall. These policies impact character house retention and neighbourhood character, and they are in conflict with neighbourhood-based planning.

For general update, see recent Vancouver Sun article or HERE.

1. Missing Middle Pilot Motion - Thanks to your efforts, this has been postponed to Wed. Sept.16, for larger MIRHPP towers & broad spot rezonings in RS/RT zones, city-wide. This pre-empts the Vancouver Plan and neighbourhood-based planning. This creates out of scale development without any neighbourhood context and puts character houses & heritage at more risk. 

• Please send emails to Council to oppose this motion, even if it is only one line or as per above, before Wednesday Sept. 16 @ 9:00 am.    
• See Motion HERE.
• Submit comments by copying or attaching a pdf through the City's online form so that staff count it HERE.
• Also email to:  kennedy.stewart@vancouver.ca,  adriane.carr@vancouver.ca, melissa.degenova@vancouver.ca, lisa.dominato@vancouver.ca, pete.fry@vancouver.ca,  colleen.hardwick@vancouver.ca,
  CLRkirby-yung@vancouver.ca,  jean.swanson@vancouver.ca, michael.wiebe@vancouver.ca,  rebecca.bligh@vancouver.ca, christine.boyle@vancouver.ca, ccclerk@vancouver.ca, sadhu.johnston@vancouver.ca , gil.kelley@vancouver.ca  

2. Spot rezoning apartments in transition zones city-wide, part of the rental incentive program, is back for public consultation. It includes all RS, RT and RM zones near arterials as specified.

• Thanks to your actions, the consultation process has been extended to Oct. 4, 2020.
• For more information and to send comments, link HERE.  You can also email your comments to Council directly at the emails above.

3. New Petition on City-wide Rezonings covers policies that includes rezonings that impact heritage and character houses and neighbourhood character without context. This includes spot rezonings for towers and other out of scale development.

• Please sign petition HERE and share.
• Or paste the following link into your browser: https://www.change.org/p/city-of-vancouver-council-officials-our-communities-our-plans-99961c91-4a17-497d-86c8-b385b3c0f315

Thank you!