Thursday, June 26, 2025

High Density Plans for Vancouver

 https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/cartoon-ucs58-vancouver-plans-high-density-2-complete-community

Well, Vancouver still isn't allowing any residential tower to rival the tallest in Edmonton, Calgary & Seattle. BC is 75% mountainous yet, there are only a handful of potential major urban regions in this backwater wilderness of a province.

https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/antisocial-housing-cc160-vancouvers-initiative-is-neither-social-nor-affordable-by-brian-palmquist/

Vancouver could get more benefits from developers if there was more incentive to build taller hotels and residential towers, as long as there was a good component of affordable housing.