{"id":12649,"date":"2012-07-27T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=12649"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:17:45","slug":"neighbourhood-watch-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/27\/neighbourhood-watch-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12650\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/waferboard\/7568549198\/in\/pool-replace\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12650\" title=\"waferboard_ClockTower\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/waferboard_ClockTower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selected image from the Spacing Vancouver Flickr pool. Image courtesy of waferboard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2360\" title=\"NeighbourhoodWatch_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/NeighbourhoodWatch_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><em>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The heated debate around the historic Bose Farm development at 16420 64 Ave in Surrey continues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreyleader.com\/news\/163578696.html\" target=\"_blank\">as the most plan recent gets sent back to the drawing board<\/a> by Council urging a new concept that\u00a0 will save more than 300 trees on the property.<br \/>\nAlso in Surrey, cellphone signals may soon see a jump with the beginning of a City pilot project that will allow five cell providers &#8211; Rogers, Telus, Bell, Mobilicity and Wind &#8211; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreyleader.com\/news\/163939456.html\" target=\"_blank\">use street lights as mini cell towers<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more-->Outside Metro Vancouver, great news for people looking to live in Fernie as the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) and BC Housing have selected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/news\/163217476.html\" target=\"_blank\">four affordable housing proposals<\/a> to move to the next phase of their Affordable Rental Housing Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>With the\u00a0 current location of the Sparwood Museum undergoing extensive renovations, the institution is being forced to move with no place\u00a0 to go. As a result, the Sparwood Michel Natal Heritage Society (SMNHS) is making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/news\/163494836.html\" target=\"_blank\">a public plea for help<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The recent approval of the Jumbo Glacier Resort by the BC Government in the heart of what the Ktunaxa call Qat\u2019muk (GOT MOOK) &#8211; an hour west of Invermere &#8211; has spurred the Ktunaxa Nation to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/news\/163860376.html\" target=\"_blank\">apply for Judicial Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a cutback in service hours, Greater Victoria transit users <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/news\/163955726.html\" target=\"_blank\">broke ridership records for the second consecutive year<\/a> with a 0.4 per cent over 2010\/11 numbers.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. The heated debate around the historic Bose Farm development at 16420 64 Ave in Surrey continues as the most plan recent gets sent back to the drawing board by Council urging a new concept that\u00a0 will save more than 300 trees on the property. Also<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/27\/neighbourhood-watch-40\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Neighbourhood Watch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11232],"tags":[965,337],"class_list":["post-12649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-british-columbia","tag-neighbourhood-watch"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Neighbourhood Watch - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/27\/neighbourhood-watch-40\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Neighbourhood Watch - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. 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