Maybe it's time for those in opposition to this type of non-plan planning to abandon egos and join together under one banner instead of fracturing the vote and losing out on having any say going forward.
Why don’t we go to nerve centre of it and make changes to the Vancouver Charter. Possibly provisions or conditions can be included to give residents more input. It is our tax dollars that are being used against us.
Sadly Our city has become a kind of international cooperation and its beauty is a great selling point , alas, I dont feel the local city people have much control, perhaps some super person or people will slow the title wave and get the powers to be to take their tower building stuff to somewhere else, what will be ,will be
we were declared a heritage area ( Shaugnessy) with strict building codes being applied and strict guidelines that were to preserve our heritage landscaping. one of the owners of Onni .. a huge property development company has had approved by city council ripping out three of its neighbours beautiful 80 year old landscaping and in our case, replaced it with a black chain link fence ( for their security) They we’re able to do this because the old property lines set in 1908 were not completely accurate in some parts and were approx 2 feet out. In 2 years we have not been able to get any sort of help or information from city hall about how we can preserve our ‘heritage’ look . We lost approx 25% of our home value because of the restrictions applied in order to preserve our heritage area, however when a big property developer buys, none of the same rules apply , they can destroy rather than comply . I wonder what city councillors and permit departments get from developers that they can have such immunity to the same rules as regular home owners?
Maybe it's time for those in opposition to this type of non-plan planning to abandon egos and join together under one banner instead of fracturing the vote and losing out on having any say going forward.
Just a thought.
Why don’t we go to nerve centre of it and make changes to the Vancouver Charter. Possibly provisions or conditions can be included to give residents more input. It is our tax dollars that are being used against us.
Sadly Our city has become a kind of international cooperation and its beauty is a great selling point , alas, I dont feel the local city people have much control, perhaps some super person or people will slow the title wave and get the powers to be to take their tower building stuff to somewhere else, what will be ,will be
we were declared a heritage area ( Shaugnessy) with strict building codes being applied and strict guidelines that were to preserve our heritage landscaping. one of the owners of Onni .. a huge property development company has had approved by city council ripping out three of its neighbours beautiful 80 year old landscaping and in our case, replaced it with a black chain link fence ( for their security) They we’re able to do this because the old property lines set in 1908 were not completely accurate in some parts and were approx 2 feet out. In 2 years we have not been able to get any sort of help or information from city hall about how we can preserve our ‘heritage’ look . We lost approx 25% of our home value because of the restrictions applied in order to preserve our heritage area, however when a big property developer buys, none of the same rules apply , they can destroy rather than comply . I wonder what city councillors and permit departments get from developers that they can have such immunity to the same rules as regular home owners?