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Mission City: small-town roots, suburban realities « Fraseropolis
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Land use, transportation and civic culture in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. Mission City: small-town roots, suburban realities. June 11, 2012. Tags: District of Mission plan. In most of our cities, it’s too late to cry about the shift of commercial activity from high streets to asphalt plazas; the deed is done. If the high street is going to survive, it must function primarily as the core of an urban village, and gather new residents around it, especially seniors, within a walkable area. Fill in you...
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Urban Villages « Fraseropolis
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Land use, transportation and civic culture in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. The Fraseropolis Urban Villages project considers sites in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland where people can live, shop and enjoy life within a walkable area. The Urban Villages index speaks to the availability of services for residents. Visitors look for something else — charm and cultural interest, or natural beauty. Any village in this set is worth a day trip: Vancouver’s West End. Entries in the Urban Villages index:.
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The subtle charms of downtown Maple Ridge « Fraseropolis
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Land use, transportation and civic culture in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. The subtle charms of downtown Maple Ridge. May 4, 2012. Tags: Maple Ridge development. Metro Vancouver’s 1996 Livable Region Strategic Plan. Tagged the Maple Ridge Town Centre as one of eight regional hot spots for commercial and employment growth, alongside Metrotown, central Coquitlam and downtown Richmond. This appeal is undercut by the scattered nature of the walkable village. I am guessing, but there is probably mor...
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Urban Villages « Fraseropolis
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Land use, transportation and civic culture in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. Category Archives: Urban Villages. Revisiting Downtown Maple Ridge. July 18, 2016. Tags: Downtown Maple Ridge. Livable Region Strategic Plan. I toured the area on a recent Saturday morning with co-tourist Bob Smarz. I’m frequently downtown, but this was my first Fraseropolis assessment of the commercial zone and nearby housing since 2012. Maple Ridge’s central area as defined on the municipal website. Less positively, there ...
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Metro Vancouver « Fraseropolis
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Land use, transportation and civic culture in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. Category Archives: Metro Vancouver. The brief debate on a new real estate tax. August 11, 2016. Tags: 15 per cent tax BC. BC foreign investment tax. BC Finance Minister Mike de Jong (CBC News). In parts of Metro Vancouver. The Liberals had linked this price inflation to a shortage of housing supply; this site predicted. The government turned aside the opposition’s amendment proposals, and the bill passed in its origina...
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imcleod « Fraseropolis
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Land use, transportation and civic culture in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. The brief debate on a new real estate tax. August 11, 2016. Tags: 15 per cent tax BC. BC foreign investment tax. BC Finance Minister Mike de Jong (CBC News). In calling a rare summer meeting of the Legislature to approve this measure, the BC Liberal government was responding to rising public anxiety around the housing market. One-year price increases for detached homes were approaching 50 per cent. The government turned asid...
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A homeless camp in a Vancouver suburb « Fraseropolis
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Land use, transportation and civic culture in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. A homeless camp in a Vancouver suburb. July 15, 2015. Tags: Maple Ridge homeless camp. Weeks after the mayor’s swearing-in, a colourful row of tents sprang up on a residential street 200 metres from my home. In the 2014 Metro Vancouver homeless count. Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows together were said to have 39 unsheltered homeless people. By July 2015, the estimated population of the Cliff Avenue camp was about 60. Layton wro...
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They’re spending money in Downtown Abbotsford « Fraseropolis
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Land use, transportation and civic culture in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. They’re spending money in Downtown Abbotsford. July 20, 2012. Abbotsford is the largest city in the Fraser Valley Regional District. It’s the product of a series of mergers, the latest being with the District of Matsqui in 1995. The old Village of Abbotsford, like Cloverdale. Also described in this series,. A 2005 revitalization bylaw. Offers a property tax reduction to anyone who completes more than $100,000 in building imp...
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Votermedia: Victoria
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How Votermedia Affects Election Campaigns. Mainstream Media vs Voter Media. Votermedia Should Be Continuous. Expand Votermedia to Municipal Politics. Corp Gov Links Pages. How should the Victoria voter community divide funding among these blogs/websites? Most communities give your votes more weight if you log in and/or are a community member.]. Focus Online city hall watch. Victoria's sewage fiasco and the politics of contamination:. Washington's phony sewage war with Victoria:. By David Broadland, March...
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