Maybe … we’ll see …. Wouldn’t be hard to make permanent … she seems from the past to be much more aligned w/ freight & car throughout

Speak up … let the mayor & council know that community councils only speak for some of the people, and that in public meetings like this many get swayed by louder voices and by presentations that that don't give all the relevant facts

5 steps to making better cities Before you can do the right thing, you have to do the right thing badly. And before that, you have to do the wrong thing.

Read this article if you want to kick-start a better conversation on smart city-building. @brenttoderian.bsky.social uses these "5 Steps For Better Cities" in the cities he works in and advises around the world. So he wrote about it in @fastcompany.bsky.social. www.fastcompany.com/90278237/5-s...

This would guarantee Democrats lose power for a generation or more.

CO_HOPE (collaborative housing in a pandemic era) is a funded EU research project

the course will be looking at 14 case studies from several countries, at the nexus of social cohesion, affordability, and public health. and how to scale it up to other places

Community meetings that set land use policies are no good and also bad. If cities are going to be blue refuges, they gotta build homes, parks, bike lanes, community centers…all the things certain people reliably go to meetings to scream about.

And note that's just in the City of Vancouver.
Far more housing is being built in adjacent communities like Burnaby, New Westiminster, and especially Surrey which is poised to within a year or 2 to have a larger popilation than Vancouver

58,000 new homes now in pipeline or under review in Vancouver | Urbanized Over 58,000 new homes are now in the development pipeline or proposed and under review within the City of Vancouver.

Compare Seattle's anemic proposed Comprhensive Plan update with what is happening in Vancouver in the earliest phases of their revisions to planning regs.
dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

It takes awhile for things to congeal.
Twitter had become a fairly universal town square. Now there are a plethora of small neighborhood squares. Hopefully they will gradually congeal into one. But will they?