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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Weekend

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LOCAL
• Separation in Surrey [Price Tags]
• The second annual Metro Vancouver Cycling Action Forum [The Buzzer]
• Council modifies timelines for plans in Marpole, Grandview-Woodland, and Downtown Eastside [Georgia Straight]
• Underground bike parking in Vancouver: Open letter to Mayor Gregor Robertson [Vancouver Observer]
• Opposition mounts as Paragon rolls dice again on revised BC Place “entertainment” complex [Vancouver Observer]
• New leader works to get NPA back on track [Vancouver Sun]
• Proposed Metro Vancouver bylaw to keep trash in town under debate [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver city council to decide how to proceed with neighbourhood planning process [Vancouver Sun]
• Don Cayo: Don’t ‘fix’ property tax inequities by doing more things wrong [Vancouver Sun]
• B.C. councillor aims to solve community’s ‘serious sign problem’ by cracking down on redundant warnings [National Post]

CASCADIA
Island developer loses bid to silence online critics [Victoria Times Colonist]
• There’s A Place for Us [Sightline Daily]

CANADA
• Editorial: Big issue: The future of Edmonton’s LRT [Edmonton Journal]
• Look for Toronto’s urban future in the booming suburbs [Toronto Star]

INTERNATIONAL
• Forget Continents Or Countries. This Is What Climate Change Will Do To Your Block [Fast Co.Exist]
• Bike Sharing Can Mean Safer Biking [New York Times]
• White House Offers Up $300 Million to Fix Detroit’s Blight [The Atlantic Cities]
• Abu Dhabi Planning Charrette [Planetizen]