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MEDIA: Locals ask Vision Vancouver to reject controversial rezoning for...

CityHallWatch is passing on two items received. Further below is a press release from Beach Towers Neighbours, relating to a rezoning public hearing on February 5, 2013. Immediately below is an...

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Affordability destroyers: Are STIR policies and spot rezonings inflating land...

This graph requires further research regarding a shocking escalation in land assessment prices from 2012 to 2013 based on BC Assessment values. CityHallWatch is calling on everyone to join in the...

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Vancouver rental market – Increase in vacancy rate induces competition among...

CBC yesterday carried a story that may come as a surprise, titled “Vancouver rental market competition heats up: Increase in vacancy rate induces competition among property owners.”...

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Foreign ownership “the elephant crushing the table” of housing affordability:...

When it comes to housing affordability, foreign ownership is not only the elephant in the room, “it’s the elephant crushing the table.” Those are the words of Vancouver’s former director of planning at...

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Beach Towers rezoning: Vancouver Councillors misleading the public?...

(Update — The letter to Mayor was sent on Feb 15. We will provide an update here if and when we receive even an acknowledgement of receipt. Or even better, an actual response. Nothing yet.)...

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City web page showing taxes, land assessment values mysteriously disappears

(Updated 18-Feb-2013. A reader gave us the direct links for Property Inquiries, here. We hope that readers will help with the analysis of this question: Is the dramatic escalation in 2013 land...

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CityHallWatch asks Urban Development Institute head to clarify ethical...

(Update April 1, 2013 — A month and a half later, we are still looking forward to getting even just an acknowledgement of receipt of this message, despite having resent it several times.) CityHallWatch...

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Images of Beach Towers, public hearing today

Today at 6 pm the Public Hearing on Beach Towers will resume. CBC Radio Early Edition with Rick Cluff at 7:50 am featured the architect from IBI Group, for the Beach Towers (Devonshire Properties)...

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More issues for Beach Towers, architect honesty, impacts of Vancouver...

Here are some more thoughts about development practices in Vancouver, with the Beach Towers rezoning as a test case. First, the practice of City Hall to discount the negative impacts of demolition and...

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Beach Towers rezoning approved today, but expert said STIR won’t reduce rent...

(Updated Feb 27) On February 26, 2013, Vision Vancouver mayor and councillors voted as a block to approve the rezoning to create 133 new rental units at Beach Towers in the West End. NPA and Green...

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