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Entries from June 2008
June 29, 2008
“A-wake”: A Procession STOP CONCORD PACIFIC’S “DISCOVERY” OF THE DTES
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June 29, 2008
Further Comments from the Development Permit Board Hearing on 58 West Hastings, June 23, 2008
On June 23, 2008 about 30 Downtown Eastside residents and friends descended on City Hall to tell the Development Permit Board to stop the Concord Pacific proposal for 154 condos in their community. The Carnegie Community Action Project had already collected and sent 201 letters opposing the proposal to the board and city councilors.
First, city [...]
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June 29, 2008
Development Permit Board June 23, 2008, Jean Swanson’s speach
When you are considering this today, urge you to expand you role as broadly as you can ; to realize that we have a huge homeless problem in Van and that building expensive condos in the dtes is taking up land that could be used for social housing, increasing land values and making desperately needed [...]
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June 25, 2008
Concord Pacific project in Downtown Eastside takes a beating
Read the blog entry by Frances Bula here.
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June 25, 2008
DPB Hearing for 58 West Hastings: Elvin’s speech
The Word is No – Comments on the Development Permit Application for 58 West Hastings Street
Elvin Wyly
Chair, Urban Studies Program
Department of Geography
University of British Columbia
June 23, 2008
Honorable Chair and Members of the Development Permit Board, thank you for the opportunity to comment on this application. My name is Elvin Wyly. I’m an Associate Professor of [...]
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June 25, 2008
CCAP response to city staff report “Housing Stock in the DTES, 2003-2008″ (June 9, 2008)
Summary of what city says: Basically the staff think that the goal of replacing SRO’s one for one with a good unit of non market housing is being met. They admit that market housing is proceeding more quickly than envisioned by the DTES Housing Plan but don’t think that is a problem.
What’s wrong with the [...]
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June 18, 2008
Coles Notes – Downtown Eastside Housing Plan (2005)
The DTES Housing Plan is strong about the pace of development in the DTES.
It says at least 7 times that the rate of change should be monitored and at least 4 times that the community should be involved in monitoring the rate of change. HP says the city will report on development activity every month [...]
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June 17, 2008
GIANTS LEAP Screening, Sat. June 21, Carnegie Theatre
Directed and written by Florence Debeugny and Lynsey Hamilton
Giants Leap/ À pas de géants is a documentary film on the changes to Vancouver’s Downtown South neighbourhood. It raises questions about people being driven out of their homes by developers pursuing profit.
Come watch this thought-provoking film and join a community discussion afterwards on the issue [...]
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June 17, 2008
58 West Hastings development hearing June 23, 2008
Hi everyone!
Thank you for your encouragement and interest in opposing the upcoming Hearing for 58 West Hastings Street Concord Pacific luxury condos.
Concord Pacific style development is the wave of the future for the Downtown Eastside:
new luxury condos surge ahead of new social housing at a rate of [...]
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June 17, 2008
“The building has been penetrated.”
“The building has been penetrated.” Those are the words that greeted a crew of CCAP volunteers and friends as a security guard spoke into her walkie talkie at the entrance to the building that houses Concord Pacific offices. It was hard to keep from giggling. I think some of us did.
We had come on June [...]
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