Why does the Vancouver Plan matter to you?
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2022
- On July 22, 2022, Vancouver City Council approved the Vancouver Plan, a citywide land use strategy to create a more livable, affordable and sustainable city for everyone.
The Vancouver Plan is now the strategic framework for the city, proposing to add more housing options in complete and connected neighbourhoods, address the climate crisis, and support businesses of all sizes.
What does this all mean for you? With the help of Uytae Lee from @AboutHere, we break it all down.
Learn more at vancouverplan.ca.
Love Uytae.
I see Uytae and I click! Excellently broken down video as always!
Well done - you created a thorough, clear, understandable summary of a critical policy document that will affect the lives of many people. Not easy and I really enjoyed it. I'll use this in my engagement and planning work (policy, tools, training, education) as an example of what to do right!
Kudos City of Vancouver. A really easy to understand explanation of the Vancouver Plan.
You really need to link this to the main channel, I didn't know this existed
100% agree. After bingeing his About Here + CBC Vancouver segments, this seems like the answer to many of the urbanism problems he highlights
Its good to learn where the City of Vancouver is headed. An open minded approach to support all requirements is essential.
It’s headed down the drain that’s where it’s headed to many free loading liberal hippies
This presents a bright future for a city with mixed low and medium density residential plus some commercial across much of the current wealthy single family home neighborhoods. I just hope that this optimistic view can actually be implemented, as I often hear how the cost to buy land and develop a new building in place of an old house is so prohibitive, it still results in 2 million dollar townhomes in place of a 5 million dollar mansion. It's better than nothing, but sadly it's often not enough.
Ouch, that river must’ve been freezing. 🥶
Funny to see Uytae in the water!
Lady and gentleman that why Vancouver is a great city !
would be nice to engage design competitions to generate ideas for different segments of the city. false creek east, bikeways, bridge enhancements, viaduct areas, major transit hubs etc.
I complain an awful lot about Vancouver because I feel like the city really has dropped the ball over the years to address housing and other issues. But this gives me hope, as it's a solid plan that was made by listening to residents. I don't expect much from government, but I hope this plan does what it's supposed to.
lol the river shot
Sounds great, but somehow I doubt many neighborhood stores, cafes, etc will sprout out of all those multimillion dollar detached homes..hope I'm wrong.
Go Uytae!
We need some kind of a plan and this one makes sense, but will we allow it to work? Good presentation.
Great video
Well done!
1:18 the ‘three big ideas’ presentation gave me STRONG wes anderson vibes… anyone else?
Huge improvement on the status quo, but excessively micro managed.
More emergent order. Less top down modernist planning.
Oh and great video as usual, love these!
Hey Easton - I am a participatory planner who has helped introduce and inject emergent and dialogic processes into city planning in Vancouver, BC and Western Canada for 25 years. So I get your impulse and comment. But given the power politics in land use, and the blood and guts reality of land use decision making, how would more "emergent order" actually work? Take the much-needed and bold Kitsilano social housing development that council just approved 6-3 after massive sets of hearings and 3x as many signatures against as in support? Would "emergent order" have allowed for that approval?
@@vinceverlaan1133 Appreciate the thoughtful critique.
Maybe I'm naive but I'd just rezone the whole city with for streamlined by-right approvals for 6 story mixed use buildings. Maybe arranged like Barcelona super blocks? Then preserve or expand the nice green spaces and conservation pathways mentioned in the plan.
Maybe do more top down planning near mass transit like skytrain? Combine this with forms of land value tax and land value capture.
One thing I am hung up on is I don't get why planners would try to ensure heavy industry happens on some of the most expensive land in the whole giant country. Shouldn't big, land intensive industry happen on cheap land? When top down planning leads to inefficient land use it upsets me.
Mostly what I see in Vancouver industrial areas are a bunch of businesses gaming the zoning. Coffee roasters that just want cheap rent for a coffee shop, breweries that just want cheap rent for a pub, etc. Sure, they are "manufacturing", but this all happens because we have an artificial scarcity of commercially zoned space, which is hostile to a vibrant culture of small businesses. If the whole city was zoned for commercial mixed use it would be far more lively and commercial space would be cheaper. Amusingly I find the emergent order and charm of Vancouver is largely happening in industrial areas where the planners didn't want that at all.
I see these plans trying to please everyone, and doing too many compromises on the way.
I also prefer amore generalized 4- 6 story rezoning for much of the city instead of the Broadway Plan with 30+ stories for several blocks deep on either side of Broadway for much of the new skytrain route.
I think the dynamics of those industrial areas are vital to keep a city varied for employment and also interesting.
Most of what I find about high-rise construction seems to indicate that it's not very environmentally friendly, so again, more 4 - 6 story structures.
Also definitely more small neighborhood business hubs with groceries, and other small, local businesses.
absolutely goated video
How will the upcoming election affect the implementation of the plan? Especially the Broadway subway. Not sure who to vote for. The plan sounds good (increase walkability, housing, environment/sustainbility).
Nice!
Great video. What is the plan for homeless people? Thanks.
Is the new board of mayor and city council people for this? This seems like something that was done under the previous administration.
15 minute cities will create control over one.
Why do you force subtitles on UA-cam?
Instead of improving one area at a time which then causes prices to shoot up and people to be displaced, why not improve every area of the city at the same time???
2:55 "relatively affordable housing" lol?
Where can I get a physical copy
Vancouver will only be a haven for the rich in time. Glad my family prospered here when it was a great city. Its a toilet now, literally in a lot of areas. Good luck anyone thinking you'll own a detached house here lol.
How did you get kids to pay attention to local social and economic development planning without putting them to sleep? 😂
One form of housing is ignored in the lower mainland except by people who want it. Rowhouses are cheaper to build, energy and space effic8ient and fee simple. Better than strata. Please comment.
Wooords .
as long as we don't turn into Tokyo I'm fine
Affordable housing
Sounds like a dream come true but as Vancouver is located in one of the more stable world economies and one of the most desirable cities in the world- I find this scenario highly unlikely! Hope I’m wrong!
I LIKE THIS VIDEO AND I DONT LIVE IN BC
i livein Australia considering that i and my country dont exist this isnt that revevent
I participated in this engagement and it was great. My biggest issues with the city is that we need to cater towards singles more than couples. Most people who rent here do it with a partner or roommate, but I'd like to see more affordability for people who actually want their own place to themselves. This means more studios is a must, or even something smaller would be fine.
My second biggest problem with the city is that we really only have two main forms of fast transportation, cars and skytrain. Owning a car is expensive and skytrains dont give you the privacy that a car would. It would be nice to have a third type of fast transportation that cost more than a skytrain 3-zone monthly pass but cheaper than leasing a car with insurance costs added. Right now, escooters and ebikes are it, but they're not quite legalized in many areas.
Lol 😆 not much will change other than bankruptcies and more condo and apartments. No businesses in residential communities.
Most European and Asian cities have small businesses like groceries and food stalls within residential areas, and they work out for the better. No need to get stuck in traffic to go to the nearest big box stores.
@@ianhomerpura8937but the current zoning practices in North America can hardly adapt it. That few people holding on to large single family zoning areas are not supportive of the proposed change. They are given the rights to block development of cities that would benefit majority of the people.
Do we really want an economy of baristas and small businesses? There's literally 5 or something ice cream shops just on Robson in one area...No factories producing socially necessary tangible products of labour, hence an overproduction of unaffordable housing.
Singapore was able to do so, through the hawker centres.
Also, bars within walking distance means less drunk driving incidents and fatalities, which lessens government spending in the long run.
Wouldn't it just make more sense to nationalize the empty housing... instead of building more? Housing the most destitute immediately, granting them some sort of economic basis.
I haven't met anyone who thinks the Broadway plan is a good thing. 30+ story buildings several blocks deep all along Broadway just seems insane.
How did that get approved? Was there really that much support? I understand the staggered concentric heights building out around skytrain stations, but not along most of Broadway. Why are their more rules to keep it human scale, 4 - 6 stories. Utilizing more of the lumber technology out of UBC?
I know lots of people who support the Broadway plan...
It does not matter to me, this is because I live in Columbus, Ohio
all i can think is ive been basicly homeless for the majority of the last 7 years.. what you described is the way it was over 7 yeras ago... also saying we have areas with lots of affordable housing is a joke man, im sick of yoru positive vibe videos that dont properly display the tragedy that has become vancouver, its not just some chill haopy video, its a crime of the centiry and destroying lives already, your not being honest with your videos, your making the situation worse by not addressing the true disaster that is the housing market and making its seem not such a big deal as it is. you make it worse by making videos acting like "hey dont worry we have it all under control, look at my chill happy video" your the problem and others like you and CBC
This city just gets more and more expensive no matter which developer's lap dog is in city hall.
“And relatively affordable housing”. Good joke.
WEF BS
totally unlivable city what will it be this month food or rent ?
HMMM....THE NEXT LOCKDOWN.... 15MIN CITIES?
What do you mean?
Mostly propaganda
Dedicated public servants doing their utmost to deliver good ideas in policy form to address mega challenges of one of the 5 most desirable cities in the world.
Mostly nonsense from those claiming propaganda for anything they don't like.
@@vinceverlaan1133 You’re going to fail and your laptop class job will be replaced by AI.