LOCAL
• Surrey seeks to put limits on payday loan outlets [Vancouver Sun]
• Dog lovers have a bone to pick about Trout Lake proposal [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver residents no longer allowed to cut down trees [Vancouver Sun]
• Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan: Housing amendments pass [Vancouver Observer]
• TransLink Governance and Bill 22 [South Fraser Blog]
• What do the residents of Point Grey Rd. want now? [Vancouver Sun]
• The New Point Grey Road – 13: Todd’s Take, My Rebuttal [Price Tags]
• What street furniture tells you about a city [Price Tags]
• How things get done (or not) in YVR and NYC [Price Tags]
• “This is your next Metrotown” [Fraseropolis]
• Hotel Georgia – West Georgia Street [Changing Vancouver]
• Hillcrest community centre sees battles erupt inside and outside board [State of Vancouver]
• Redeveloping rental subsidies in Vancouver [Georgia Straight]
• Shortfall in low-income housing could lead to increase in homeless numbers, Vancouver staff say [Georgia Straight]
• Push to give the public a vote on the Vancouver Aquarium’s whales going to city council [Georgia Straight]
CASCADIA
• Nanaimo council cheered for rejecting plan to burn Vancouver trash [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Homelessness not an issue, many Greater Victorians say in survey [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Nanaimo says, “No” to Metro Vancouver’s incinerator proposal [Vancouver Observer]
• Seattle’s new bike plan: ride on calmer backstreets [Seattle Times]
• Domino’s Pizza now delivers by cargo trike in downtown Portland [Bike Portland]
• Prop 1: What King County Metro hopes you won’t notice [Crosscut]
• Tilikum Crossing: New Portland bridge named after Chinook word for ‘people’ [The Oregonian]
INTERNATIONAL
• 3 Reasons We Should Pay Attention to Medellín [Planetizen]
• The World’s Best Behaved Cyclists are in Copenhagen [Copenhagenize]
• Visualizing 200 Years of Urban Sprawl in Paris, São Paulo, and L.A. [The Atlantic Cities]
• Suburbs Try to Prevent an Exodus as Young Adults Move to Cities and Stay [New York Times]
• The Next America [Pew Research]