The Planning Department has posted its proposed revisions to the EcoDensity Charter, based on the feedback it received from the public hearings and City Council.
You can read the new report to Council here. The revised Charter is here. And the revised actions are here.
The changes reflect the key themes heard:
- EcoDensity must address affordability in [...]
Adele Weder addresses the question in The Tyee. Many voices weigh in.
Here’s mine:
Former city councillor and eco-density advocate Gordon Price … does acknowledge what he calls the “Vancouver Special Paradox.” By allowing the most basic, affordable but perhaps aesthetically challenged houses to crop up, we can also provide more basic shelter to a greater number [...]
The other day The Tyee asked me for an idea that I think has traction: something that will shape our city in the coming year.
Well, okay. How about some new housing that effectively addresses affordability and sustainability without changing the character of low-density neighbourhoods? - in other words, an EcoDensity wet dream.
How about if it were simply built, appropriately [...]
In the op-ed I wrote for the Sun a few days ago, I noted the prevalence of a tendency in political commentary to a “lazy and jesting cynicism.” And we’re seeing pretty else nothing but that with respect to comment on EcoDensity.
For example, Geoff Olson’s article in the Courier:
I’d prefer to not think of EcoDensity [...]
A good piece in The Tyee by Cynthia Yoo, reporting from the frontlines of the rental housing crunch.
… my idyllic summer evening turned quickly into a battleground scene. Dozens of flip-flopped, lululemon’ed denizens milled about the front grounds of a building in one of the most prized postal-codes in the city… These lotus-eaters’ fabled Shangri-las [...]
Cheeying Ho of Smart Growth BC has an op-ed in today’s Vancouver Sun. It’s a response to the ecodenialists:
Cheryl Savchenko’s Aug. 14 column Eco-density is a thin concept raises some important concerns, but unfortunately fails to understand the key role that well-planned and well-designed density plays in creating more livable, environmentally sound neighbourhoods.
I like that [...]
Just out:
Between March and May 2007 the City of Vanocuver invited luminaries from across North America to participate in the EcoDensity Speaker Series. See what the experts have to say about our future and EcoDensity:
March 3: Avi Friedman, Director of Affordable Housing Program, McGill University (video)
March 22: John Helliwell, UBC Professor (video)
March 22: Bill [...]
Brent Toderian has just posted his latest entry on the Planetizen blog - Part 1 on EcoDensity.
An excerpt:
The good news is that Vancouver may be the best positioned city in North America to be a continuing model for change. We have the expanding tools and building blocks to do density well and to deliver the [...]
Here’s a provocative comment from a PT reader whom I’ll keep anonymous - not because he wouldn’t mind his name being printed but because he probably wouldn’t write as colourfully if I did.
Say, have you been enjoying Michael Geller’s dispatches from abroad?
I particularly liked his latest, from Hanoi, whereby he spoke about taxation being based on property frontage [...]
This is one of the best articles written so far on EcoDensity (and a certain planning director thinks so too).
From Vancouver Magazine …
Playing the Real Estate Game
The single-family house is an endangered
species in this city. What’s a guy who’s always wanted a house to do?
By Tyee Bridge
WHEN I WAS SEVEN, my family moved from a rented [...]
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