Spacing Vancouver is excited to announce that we will be holding an in-depth Q & A session with Mayor Gregor Robertson to be published as one of the main Feature articles in Spacing’s much anticipated second National Edition.
In light of this great opportunity, we would like to give our readers the rare opportunity to add to the list of questions and issues we are going to address with the Mayor. Bike lanes? Laneway housing? Public realm? Future visions for the city? Anything you feel is important and worthwhile.
Given our limited time with Mayor Robertson and the abundance of questions we are sure to receive, we will not be able to ask the submitted questions directly. Instead, we will tease out all the common themes and reformulate them as a question. All submissions will remain anonymous.
With the latter in mind, we ask that you please submit questions – by Monday December 5th – to erick@spacing.ca under the subject Ask Gregor.
We’re looking forward to receiving your questions!
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Calgary has Stephen Avenue, Toronto has the Distillery District, Ottawa has Sparks Street, Montreal has Rue Prince-Arthur.
Should Vancouver have a permanent car-free area, and if so, where should it be?
Will you and Council direct administration to remove minimum off-street car parking requirements for development that is within 400m of a frequent transit network route, as is done in Portland for example, or will you continue the City’s policy of mandating
developers to encourage car use and add $30,000 to the cost of every
housing unit, even in areas well served by transit?
How will Vancouver retain its unique heritage? What are the size and building restrictions for a neighbourhood such as Dunbar? How can we keep the Craftsman style houses and stop the tear downs which are happening at an ever increasing rate.
Also there seems to be no restriction on size and suitability with a given neighbourhoods general plan, no one wants to be overshadowed by a excessively large house next door, also not to mention laneway housing, enough is enough! It is not fair to allow this without any input from the public/residents.
These houses should be preserved and sustained as they are beautiful and very functional, and do play a major role as to why people are attracted to this community to begin with.