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Vision Vancouver

12:32 pm, Feb 27, 2013
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Broadway Subway – What’s Next?
The Broadway Corridor has North America’s busiest bus line through British Columbia’s 2nd largest downtown core leading to our largest university. Thousands of riders are passed up daily, and users report waits of up to five busses to get on board. To keep our economy and our population moving forward, we need better transit solutions for Broadway.

Join Mayor Gregor Robertson and Councillor Geoff Meggs on Sunday March 10 from 2pm to 4pm at St James Community Hall to discuss how to move forward on our top regional transit priority: a Broadway Subway to UBC.
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Vision Vancouver

3:36 pm, Feb 14, 2013
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2013 Vision AGM
We’re fast approaching the half-way point of a term that has been marked by major progress to make Vancouver a greener, safer, more affordable, and more livable city, and none of it would be possible without your continued support and engagement.

We’ve been working hard to deliver on the commitments we made together during the campaign. Examples from just the past few months include the launch of Vancouver’s new Rent Bank, zoning changes that will enable a massive expansion of new affordable artist space in industrial areas, and the launch of Vancouver’s new Online Rental Standards database.

Just this week we also learned that Vancouver is meeting or exceeding every one of the 2015 targets established in the City’s Housing and Homeless strategy. This reflects our continued resolve to build new supportive housing, support renters, and end street homelessness in Vancouver by 2015.
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Vision Vancouver

2:48 pm, Feb 8, 2013
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A big week at City Hall
This was an important week of progress for Vancouver, and I want to make sure you’re up to date on everything we’re doing at City Hall to move forward on Vancouver’s real priorities.

We started Monday with the exciting announcement that the world-renowned TED Conference is re-locating to Vancouver.

TED talks are known internationally for being a source of inspiration and innovation, with the goal of developing and implementing “ideas worth sharing.” Millions of people watch the talks in person and online, and past speakers have included Former US President Bill Clinton, Apple founder Steve Jobs, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Vancouver’s Wade Davis.

To have the organizers of TED choose Vancouver as their new home is remarkable news for our tourism industry and a tremendous validation of our work to make Vancouver a world leader in sustainability and technology.

TED moves to Vancouver:

Click here to learn more

At Tuesday’s public hearing, the Vision-led City Council unanimously approved new zoning bylaw changes that will open upsignificant new affordable artist space in Vancouver, by allowing work-only art studio uses in all 12 of the city’s industrial districts.
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Vision Vancouver

12:29 pm, Feb 6, 2013
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New city of Vancouver database to list problem rental buildings
By. Global BC

VANCOUVER - Renters in Vancouver will have a new tool at their disposal to figure out if their home is substandard or in trouble with the city.

On Wednesday the city published online a searchable database of all rental buildings with five or more units that have run into trouble with city inspectors.

And perhaps not surprisingly, the top five buildings on the city's hit list are all single-room occupancy hotels. The Wonder Hotel, Marble Arch, Empress Hotel and Pub, Palace Hotel and 561 East Hastings collectively have 821 orders against them.

But even some of the provincial government's SROs are also on the list.

From electrical problems to bad piping to health and cleanliness standards to fire safety and even signage and tree protection, the database will allow anyone to scope out problem buildings that are on the city's radar.