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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday

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LOCAL
• Granville Island enters transition period [Globe and Mail]
• A look at the heartbeat of Granville Island’s community [Globe and Mail]
• TransLink mayors speak with one voice, mostly [Fraseropolis]
• Transit Police willing to discuss ID checks that could lead to deportation [Georgia Straight]
• Vancouver’s ‘Spot Zoning’ Is Corrupting Its Soul [The Tyee]
• Sanctuary City: A Timeline [The Tyee]
• Vancouver Police look to Los Angeles, Toronto for Migrant Guidelines [The Tyee]
• Doug McCallum advocates use of statistics to fight crime in Surrey [Vancouver Observer]
• Fight on over West Vancouver gallery expansion on Ambleside Beach [Vancouver Sun]
• Project highlights Vancouver’s farming potential [Vancouver Sun]
• Port Moody mayor resists Metro board move to rezone waterfront industrial land [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• Longtime Victoria community garden heading for site in James Bay [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Will the City Council swallow Ed Murray’s ride-share plan? [Crosscut]
• Portland street fee: Where does the city spend $102.8 million a year currently? [The Oregonian]

INTERNATIONAL
• Solving the bike problem with the new generation of bike storage [Woodhouse]
• Uber’s Brilliant Strategy to Make Itself Too Big to Ban [Wired]
• Why Higher Fares Would Be Good for Public Transit [City Lab]
• Helsinki’s ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years [The Guardian]
• The Post-Post-Apocalyptic Detroit [New York Times]
• In Connecticut, Breaking a Barrier Between a Suburb and Public Housing [New York Times]