Entries tagged with: developers
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Vision's big debt erased by big donations from big developers
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The lid has finally been taken off the private list of Vision donors Exactly as we arrived at the 500-day mark since Vision Vancouver last divulged who is paying down their $240,000 campaign debt from the 2008 election, lo and...
Posted on July 29, 2010 9:06 PM
Neighbourhood group concerned over "large donations" to Vision Vancouver
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Neighbourhood activist Ned Jacobs – Flickr photo: STV An interesting email distributed by the self-appointed Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (NSV) group landed in our email box over the weekend. The author of this email was none other than Ned...
Posted on June 7, 2010 12:40 PM
Plans for sprawl in BC's desert hits a dry patch
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Okanagan developers search for local real-estate suitable for new single-family home developmentsWe've written a lot on this blog over the last several months regarding the negative impacts of urban sprawl on the environment. Most recently, my colleague Mike Klassen wrote this...
Posted on August 24, 2009 5:00 PM
Only Vision could get away with giving developers a $22 million tax break
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Mayor Robertson holds roundtable meeting with local developers to map out a tax break scheme A report came to Vancouver Council yesterday that proposed giving the city's big developers a $22 million tax break. With the exception of NPA...
Posted on June 19, 2009 11:00 AM
Green roofs redux
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Green roof: benefits worth the cost? Last week, I got a little heated over so-called “climate change deniers”. I should have included a reference for the one or two silly people out there who claim there is not scientific...
Posted on May 8, 2009 8:58 AM
Beating back Big Box Stores
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Usually, the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) acts in developers’ interests. It routinely ignores city council decisions and rewards developers with projects that can befoul a city’s essence or wreak havoc on the environment (in a report summarizing the outcomes...
Posted on March 5, 2009 6:01 AM
The somewhat complicated case of 4550 Fraser
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Vision Vancouver campaigned on the laudable goal to create more affordable housing. An oddly positive outcome of the current economic downturn is that a window of opportunity exists to build housing more cheaply, with the costs of labour and...
Posted on February 16, 2009 9:46 PM
Why is City of Vancouver supporting $350 tomato plants?
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I recently sent a note to fellow columnist Allen Garr about a column he wrote in the Vancouver Courier regarding those new community gardens popping up all over the City of Vancouver. Garr and I don't often see eye-to-eye, but on...
Posted on February 12, 2009 9:47 AM
Seattle's own density debate raging
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It was heartening to discover that our neighbours to the south in Seattle are having their own political debate about density (thanks, Re:Place for the link). For a while there I thought that it was only Lotusland that had...
Posted on December 15, 2008 8:12 PM
