LOCAL
• Vancouver looks to fire hall as site for affordable housing [Globe and Mail]
• More transit needed for eastern downtown [Vancouver Courier]
• Oakridge development plan under the microscope [Vancouver Courier]
• Developing Story: Oakridge report referred to June council meeting [Vancouver Courier]
• A Call to Play in Public Spaces [The Tyee]
• The new old corner store: Little shops in the middle of neighbourhoods see a revival [State of Vancouver]
• Vermilyea Block No.2 – 869 Granville Street [Changing Vancouver]
• Vancouver Park Board seeks control of Hastings Park [Vancouver Courier]
• Barbara Yaffe: New VAG could have Bilbao effect, if money can be found to build it [Vancouver Sun]
• Ideas sought for future of Richmond’s Garden City Lands (with video and map) [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• Sewage project pause sought by Greater Victoria citizens group [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Via Rail says it has no money to modify E&N service upon return to Vancouver Island [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Seattle-Bellingham: 3rd daily rail trip added [Seattle Times]
• Five-year deal expands free Wi-Fi in Esquimalt [Victoria Times Colonist]
CANADA
• Affordable housing tops the agenda as mayors make plea to Ottawa for help [Globe and Mail]
• Don’t Exclude Cities from Canada’s Energy Plan [The Tyee]
• Women transforming cities [Vancouver Observer]
• New Ontario green energy rules to give municipalities greater control over projects and a chance to collect revenue [National Post]
• Metrolinx backs hikes in HST, gas tax and new parking levy [Toronto Star]
• Disturbing Rob Ford News of the Day: Two (More) Staffers Resign [The Atlantic Cities]
INTERNATIONAL
• Planning in local government: New Urbanism’s blind spot [Better Planning & Cities]
• In Mexico City, planners turn vacant space under freeways into places to work, dine, play [Washington Post]
• Bike-sharing starts with a bang [Chicago Business]
• We Paved Cicada Paradise [The Atlantic Cities]
• Can New York’s Penn Station Ever Be Great Again? [The Atlantic Cities]
• Self-Driving Cars for Testing Are Supported by U.S. [New York Times]