LOCAL
• How will anti-TransLink vote influence transit referendum? [Metro 604]
• Towers in Grandview: Change and character in the community [Price Tags]
• At Ground Zero for Vancouver’s Towering Debate [The Tyee]
• Vancouver city hall kills ‘thin street’ proposal for Marpole [Vancouver Courier]
• Metro Vancouver cemeteries grapple with ways to meet demand for space [Vancouver Sun]
• Is ‘social mix’ good for Vancouver? [Al Jazeera]
• Al Jazeera discusses Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside as an example of gentrification controversies around the world [Georgia Straight]
• Chinatown stakeholders express cautious support for removal of viaducts [Vancouver Sun]
• Kitsilano bike-path meeting put on hold [Globe and Mail]
• Saturday in the City 2: Comox-Helmcken Greenway [Price Tags]
CASCADIA
• William’s Travels: #yvrtopdx Vancouver to Portland then Salem on public transit! [Buzzer Blog]
• Developer slams ‘rezoning purgatory’ in North Saanich [Victoria Times Colonist]
CANADA
• Calgary’s Manhattan Moment [The Tyee]
• Toronto to consider almost doubling development charges levied on construction projects [National Post]
• Montreal picks Laurent Blanchard as interim mayor [Toronto Star]
• Toronto cyclists fear dooring, but police don’t track it [The Star]
INTERNATIONAL
• Who’s Your Data? [Places: Design Observer]
• CicLAvia fills Wilshire Boulevard with bicycles [Los Angeles Times]
• New York’s Double Standard on NIMBYism [The Atlantic Cities]
• It’s About to Get Much Easier to Dig Up Your Apartment’s Deep, Dark Secrets [The Atlantic Cities]
• The Supreme Court Just Handed Real Estate Developers a Huge Win [The Atlantic Cities]