Eagles in the City
Bill & Cathryn Hunter, Co-Chairs of Eagles In the City, Mayor Sam Sullivan, City of Vancouver and Stephen Miller, President of the BC Lions Society unveil the EAGLES IN THE…
City council approves major redevelopment plans for BC Place
- News1130 Vancouver City Council has approved major redevelopment plans for BC Place. Mayor Sam Sullivan says it's a great project, and will ensure that BC Place gets revitalized with…
New art gallery, towers and roof for BC Place passes Vancouver council
An artist’s conception of the refurbished BC Place in 2015, with the new Vancouver Art Gallery in the foreground, was presented in May when the plan was launched. (PavCo)
By CBC News
Vancouver city council threw its support behind a massive revitalization project for the northeast end of False Creek, including the new retractable roof for BC Place, ensuring the giant dome be part of the city skyline in some form for years to come.
The plan spearheaded by the B.C. Pavilion Corporation, which operates BC Place for the provincial government, includes a new art gallery on the shores of False Creek, plus 130,000 square metres of residential, retail and office space.
Mayor Sam Sullivan said he was pleased the area around the stadium will be redeveloped to draw more people into the space after the Olympics.
“It’s going to have cafes. It’s going to have an outward focus, maybe little shops around it. The unfriendly pedestrian environment will be changed,” said Sullivan.
City Council approves BC Place Stadium plan
Following presentations from over 20 speakers over two nights of public hearings, Mayor Sam Sullivan and City Council approved an amendment to the False Creek North Official Development Plan to…
City Council approves laneway housing
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Laneway Housing approved by City Council
Vancouver City Council approved a series of recommendations to expand access to laneway housing across the City of Vancouver. The recommendations deliver on a key EcoDensity action item unanimously approved by Council in June.
Laneway housing is generally a smaller house or cottage at the rear of the lot near the lane. The report approved today provides much more defined parameters of what laneway housing would be in the context of Vancouver single family areas. It covers close to 70,000 lots of varying sizes and shapes with a variety of existing houses and garage types.
The recommendations in the report include:
- laneway housing to be permitted in all single family areas of the City
- designated family or rental housing instead of strata
- no reductions in backyard open space
- maximum height of 1.5 stories
- configurations that allow for one or two parking spaces
- application of new green building standards for single family homes
- separated storm & sanitary sewage connections
- staff report back on progress after three years or after 100 projects – whichever comes first
Province announces pilot program on monitoring high-crime areas
The Province will provide $1 million in initial funding to Vancouver, Surrey and Kelowna to examine increased use of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras in high crime urban areas, Solicitor…
Million bucks for cameras to keep eye on crooks
Pilot project will train videocams on B.C. city streets
By Suzanne Fournier, Vancouver Province
B.C. Solicitor-General John van Dongen and Attorney-General Wally Oppal teamed up with two Metro Vancouver mayors Monday to announce a $1 million pilot project to use closed circuit television cameras to combat crime.
Van Dongen noted that although the provincial government is committed to add 950 police officers across the province, police can’t always be in the “right place at the right time to witness” and halt crime.
“Technologies such as CCTV can greatly assist the police and the prosecution in bringing offenders to jutice,” said van Dongen. “We believe CCTV can be an important tool in catching criminals and improving public safety.”