This plan will become the Official Community Plan (OCP) for the entire city
Please send emails & sign up before 8:30 am to speak to Council!
This is the growth plan for Vancouver.
Many problems with this growth promoting plan, without any meaningful public consultation.
The Vancouver Plan includes new development building typologies applied throughout the city without applying neighbourhood-based planning principles or responding to local context, that undermines character and heritage house retention options.
The 230 page report that effectively changes housing and development across the whole city is going to Council for approval with only a weeks notice, rushed through before the election.
- Significantly increases higher density development across the city
- New regional designations for Major Transit Growth Corridors along existing bus routes
- Expanded transit development corridors and areas
- Development growth targeted near neighbourhood centres up to 12 storeys on side streets
- 12 -18 storeys close to stations with high towers +25 storeys on stations and major projects
- Multiplexes allowed throughout RS and RT zones covering the rest of the city
- Little to no reference to neighbourhood character or heritage buildings
- Incorporates major plans such as Broadway Plan, Jericho Lands, etc.
- Overrides Community Plans and Visions
- Unrealistic growth promoting housing targets that are not based on transparent data evidence
Please email Council to oppose this Plan.
What you can do:
Send an email to Council and through the online form so it will be counted by staff. See contacts below. If you are OPPOSED say so up front so it is counted as such.
Reference:
Council Agenda: https://council.vancouver.ca/20220706/cfsc20220706ag.htm
Council Report: https://council.vancouver.ca/20220706/documents/cfsc1.pdf
Emails to Council :
kennedy.stewart@vancouver.ca; CLRboyle@vancouver.ca; CLRbligh@vancouver.ca; CLRcarr@vancouver.ca; CLRhardwick@vancouver.ca; CLRdominato@vancouver.ca; CLRdegenova@vancouver.ca; CLRfry@vancouver.ca; CLRkirby-yung@vancouver.ca; CLRswanson@vancouver.ca; CLRwiebe@vancouver.ca
AND submit through the online form so staff count it:
https://vancouver.ca/your-government/contact-council.aspx
Sign up before 8:30 am July 6 to speak to Council by phone: Numbers of speakers matters. It is easy to speak by phone. Each person has 5 minutes, but you do not have to speak that long. Even just to say one sentence is OK. Sign up to speak here: https://vancouver.ca/your-government/request-to-speak-at-meeting-form-2.aspx
Media:
Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/article-generation-density-past-planners-speak-out-on-urban-development/
Former Director of Planning, Larry Beasley with Colleen Hardwick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcB6KES2Rg
Urban Designer UBC Scot Hein https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2022/07/05/vancouver-plan-comments-scot-hein/
Professor Penny Gurstein https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2022/07/05/vancouver-plan-penny-gurstein-to-council/
Brian Palmquist https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2022/07/04/palmquist62-vancouver-an-endangered-species/
Thank you!