Tag: Metro Vancouver
Updated on August 3, 2015
The fight to “save” industrial land is really all about jobs, that forgotten priority of “city-building”
Suddenly, after months and years of obsessive coverage of Metro Vancouver’s red-hot housing market, we get two in-depth probes of the region’s dwindling industrial land base, that forgotten step-sister of the affordable housing debate, one with a Vancouver… Read More
Posted on May 8, 2015
Vancouver, Burnaby look like a bargain compared to Delta or Langley when housing, transportation costs combined
A ground-breaking new study that combines housing costs with transportation and transit costs has found that apparently expensive municipalities like Vancouver and Burnaby can actually be cheaper for lower income families than Delta, Langley or the North Shore…. Read More
Updated on June 25, 2014
San Francisco’s progress on zero waste shows Metro’s more modest goal very achievable
News that San Francisco is on track to achieve its goal of zero waste by 2020 — a more aggressive target than Metro Vancouver’s 80 percent diversion — is proof that our region can achieve a major shift… Read More
Updated on March 26, 2014
Urban Futures survey shows massive and growing support for public transit investment to tackle congestion
Do Metro mayors face a tough sell on the upcoming transit referendum, as Ken Cameron suggests in this Tyee review of the new Urban Futures survey? Or is public opinion waiting for elected officials to catch up? In… Read More
