Canucks Slaughtered by Blackhawks, West End Residents Support Sustainable Density: VancouverIAM

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West End Resident Speak out for Sustainable Density

The West End Residents Association posts a letter to the Mayor and City Council on their blog regarding “sustainable density.” Their letter urges “immediate action to address climate change, affordability and livability.” At a recent Public Hearing, they stated that the “concept of ecological density needs to go forward.” They believe is it important “to distinguish between the concept of ecological density and the role it plays in a sustainable city and the branded activity the City is currently undertaking.” They support the Neigbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver “in their call for a broader reworking of the Charter” to meet the above mentioned serious challenges. “A sustainable city is more than simply higher densities.”

The challenge, they write in the post, is that “in a divisive climate where suggestions are viewed as attacks and inflammatory rhetoric the norm in opposition, critical and constructive discourse is a rarely heard for what it is.” Public discourse is necessarily political, but needs not be partisan. Key to their endorsement of their EcoDensity Charter are the ideas of “no net loss of affordable housing, allocations of the property endowment fund to create social housing, the eliminations of all parking requirements and the reallocation of two lanes for cyclists on the Burrard St. Bridge.”

CBC Examines Vancouver’s Softening Real Estate Market

Vancouver Condo Info announces that the CBC “is looking for personal stories related to Vancouver’s softening real estate market.” They want to know what you are hearing about it and if you know anyone facing foreclosure. Also, new listings are up, while resales are down. “This comes as CBC News learned that several Vancouver area building projects have come to a halt because of financial difficulties.”

Our blogger reminds us in the post that this isn’t the first time sales are down and listings are up. “It will take many more months to see if this is the start of our own local real estate crash or just a pothole in the road to infinite price increases.” However, if we see a decline in the short term or not, “a lack of affordability is clearly taking its toll in other areas.” For example, apparently, “the Vancouver Police Department is reporting that the high cost of living is driving experienced police officers out of Vancouver.”

Canucks Go from Bad to Worse

From Canuck’s Fangirl, our blogger writes that it has just gone from bad to worse for the Canucks, with their recent loss to the Blackhawks (4-1). “Alain Vigneault should have kept the Sedin-Sedin-Naslund line intact,” she writes in her post. “Pyatt-Raymond-Shannon line and Burrows-Kesler-Pettinger/Isbister line were doing just fine… providing that secondary scoring, though to be honest, it has only been those two lines that has been scoring lately.” But Vigneault has screwed with the lines and now “we only have Burrows-Kesler-whoeverisonthisline scoring.”

Fangirl says the Blackhawks deserved to win. “Not only did they dominate in the offensive zone, they dominated in their own defensive zone, not allowing the Canucks any chances at all.” In total, the Canucks had 10 shots on goal, though none were “quality scoring chances.” She also questions why Vigneault isn’t switching Salo and Ohlund on the blue line for the powerplay. “He absolutely refuses to switch the defensemen's sides on the powerplay, no wonder we suck at it so much.”

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