Truemors
The City of Vancouver admits it screwed up. And on Tuesday groups fighting 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 calls an “inadvertent shortfall in the notification process for this application,” and an “incomplete notification process”, according 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 organized their own community consultation at the site.
Full story and photos at Downtown Eastside Enquirer
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at 22:33 on April 24th, 2008
Kinda makes you wonder about the project if they have to short cut the process. It surprises me since Concord has a pretty good reputation. It is nice to see something that might displace the crack and meth dealers that make that block their home but some housing for seniors should have been part of the plan. I don't care if the addicts live in squalor but the pensioners deserve a decent place to live (a place free from being hassled by the junkies and dealers down).