City Admits Screwing Up on Condo Project for Downtown Eastside

The City of Vancouver admits it screwed up. And on Tuesday groups opposing accelerated gentrification in Vancouver in the lead up to the 2010 Winter Olympics fought back.

The Carnegie Community Action Project and other groups in the Citywide Housing Coaltion held a rally to express outrage that the City had evaded the legally required consultation process for a 7 story condominium development on the Downtown Eastside. Rick Michaels, the Director of Planning delegate for the City of Vancouver, has already apologized for what he called an “inadvertent shortfall in the notification process for this application,” and an “incomplete notification process”, in an email to Wendy Pederson, a full time paid organizer with CCAP.

"The City of Vancouver may have been trying to sneak this proposal past us", Pederson said.  So members of the Citywide Housing Coalition held their own community consultation at the site. 

Full story and photos at Downtown Eastside Enquirer