LOCAL
• Secret plan by Vancouver city council to increase requirements for social housing? [Frances Bula]
• Vancouver cites environmental impact, tanker traffic concerns in Trans Mountain submission [Globe and Mail]
• Vancouver hotel, now a supportive housing project, ready for tenants [Globe and Mail]
• 500 block Granville Street – west side (3) [Changing Vancouver]
CASCADIA
• Improved harbour easy as 1, 2, 3: Victoria report [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Co-existence with deer possible, anti-cull group tells Oak Bay [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Obsolete Interstate Bridge must keep standing if Columbia River Crossing fizzles [The Oregonion]
• CRC Seismic Retrofit: Down the Memory Hole [Sightline Daily]
• As legislators hold hearing on CRC, some are already looking at cheaper plans [Bike Portland]
• Neighborhoods: Uncovering Seattle’s hidden conservatives and true-blue liberals [Crosscut]
INTERNATIONAL
• The Most Unlikely State in America Is On Track to Eradicate Homelessness By 2015 [Policy Mic]
• Change Management: Do Planners Lead Or Follow? [Planetizen]
• Cities where no one wants to drive [USA Today]
• Blind Alleys of Urban Branding by Michael Scott [Urbanophile]