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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Vancouver’s new Official Development Plan lacks public input, while Vision “engages” on city-wide block parties
by Elizabeth Murphy in the Georgia Straight
The city of Vancouver prepares to quietly approve the city-wide Official Development Plan without any public input prior to a referral to public hearing on June 11.
Meanwhile, the Mayor’s Engaged City Task Force is released with great fanfare declaring the virtues of earlier public involvement in the planning process.
This proves George Orwell’s premise that governments will say one thing while they do the opposite.
Vision Vancouver is proposing city-wide block parties as a means to engage citizens, rather than including people in meaningful discussions on how they want their city to develop over the next 30 years.
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