LOCAL
• Farmland protection isn’t always a benefit to farmers [Globe and Mail]
• Former Van Foundation leader becomes interim chair for PHS: “Preserve innovation, values, set on a course for independent governance” [State of Vancouver]
• Portland Hotel Society audit sparks concerns from Vancouver non-profits [Georgia Straight]
• Want to be the world’s greenest city? Better start planting trees [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver’s streetcar service a costly ‘novelty’ marred by problems: report [Vancouver Sun]
• A fight for a vanishing Vancouver [Vancouver Sun]
• Les Leyne: Portland Hotel Society expenditures mind-boggling [Victoria Times Colonist]
• No car? No problem: Vancouver preparing to zone for parking-free condo towers [The Province]
CASCADIA
• Nanaimo’s proposed high-rise hotel ‘going very well’ [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Sunday Open Thread: East Link Animation [Seattle Transit Blog]
CANADA
• Calgary has edge over Edmonton in LRT comparison [Edmonton Journal]
INTERNATIONAL
• Urban policy experts analyze Youngstown plan [Michigan Daily]
• Transit + Technology: Revitalizing Public Transportation for Smarter Communities [Planetizen]
• Beneath Cities, a Decaying Tangle of Gas Pipes [New York Times]
• Wealthy Chinese home buyers boost suburban L.A. housing markets [Los Angeles Times]
• How tiny house communities can work for both the haves and the have nots [Grist]