🏙️ Vancouver’s skyline keeps growing — but at what cost?

In his Vancouver Sun article, Douglas Todd explores how investor-driven development and weakened design standards are shaping the city we live in — and what’s being lost along the way. Link in bio.

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Despite voters' rebuke of Vancouver's ABC party, new towers will still grow higher and more dense Council's direction is not about to change in regard to the pace and scale of mega-highrise projects.

"...council is not about to change re: pace and scale of mega-highrise projects in Vancouver, the most dense city in Canada. “OneCity, COPE, Greens, and ABC Vancouver...[align] on densification and towers” vancouversun.com/opinion/colu... #vanre #JerichoLands #MOAR #ItsSpeculationStupid #vanpoli

3 First Nations speak out about Vancouver's Jericho Lands project An Indigenous-led project that is set to bring thousands of housing units and development to Vancouver's West Point Grey cleared another hurdle on Tuesday, after Vancouver councillors voted to approve...

3 First Nations speak out about Vancouver's Jericho Lands project
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It might just be me, but this looks like a pretty cool neighbourhood in a city! #JerichoLands

BC government confirms new UBC SkyTrain to be a key priority | Urbanized The outlined priorities for the BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit include advancing the UBC SkyTrain extension.

BC gov't confirms #UBCSkyTrain extension to be a key priority - "expected to cost $40M, with...[fed gov't] covering $14M" (guaranteed to be way over budget as w/ all other infra) dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc... #vanre #BroadwaySubway #ItsSpeculationStupid #JerichoLands #donorsfirst #vanpoli #bcpoli