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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday

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LOCAL
• Why some B.C. mayors want local elections, transit referendum on different days [Globe and Mail]
• Mayors say transit referendum could hijack civic elections if held same day [State of Vancouver]
• The ‘Let’s Wing It’ Referendum: Hijacking the local election [Price Tags]
• Department of Overstatement: The End of the Suburbs [Price Tags]
• Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce considers court action to stop Point Grey Road bike route [Georgia Straight]
• COPE to nominate mayoral candidate in June [Georgia Straight]

CASCADIA
• Kitimat settles on date and one long-winded question for Enbridge Northern Gateway plebiscite [Vancouver Observer]
• Portland project gets 1,200 bike parking spaces, most in N America (and it might not be enough) [Bike Portland]
• Seattle’s tunnel: SR’s got 99 problems, but the steel pipe ain’t one [Crosscut]
• The Plan to Save Metro [Sightline Daily]

INTERNATIONAL
• Save that Funky Plaza? [Planetizen]
• What the Interstate Highway System Should Have Looked Like [The Atlantic Cities]
• Millennials Lead Baltimore Forward [Comeback City]
• Long Grove plan may pave way to privatize public roads [Chicago Tribune]