{"id":21168,"date":"2013-05-24T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=21168"},"modified":"2013-05-24T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:38:13","slug":"neighbourhood-watch-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/05\/24\/neighbourhood-watch-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianboyko\/8390036340\/in\/pool-replace\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NeighbourhoodWatch_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/NeighbourhoodWatch_logo.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Feedback on <strong>Port Moody<\/strong>&#8216;s draft official community plan shows the <a title=\"Mixed bag of public feedback on Port Moody's draft OCP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tricitynews.com\/news\/208723511.html?utm_source=feedly\">public is somewhat split on the proposal<\/a>.\u00a0At Tuesday&#8217;s committee of the whole meeting, PoMo planning staff presented council with a hefty package containing the draft OCP, along with about 700 pages of public engagement results.<\/p>\n<p>Just 101 steps.\u00a0According to the newly ratified downtown plan, that\u2019s what it will take to <a title=\"Plans shaping up for Penticton's downtown\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pentictonwesternnews.com\/news\/208724791.html\">revitalize the core of the city<\/a>.\u00a0Barb Haynes, co-chair of the Downtown <strong>Penticton<\/strong> Revitalization Select Committee, said that the 101 actions may be more of a pet name, but they now have a clear strategy that can be implemented incrementally to give Penticton\u2019s main commercial district a long-awaited makeover.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>New Westminster<\/strong> Chamber of Commerce is <a title=\"New West chamber OK with coal facility\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newwestnewsleader.com\/news\/208841991.html\">backing plans for a coal-transfer facility in Surrey<\/a>.\u00a0FSD [Fraser Surrey Docks] chief executive officer Jeff Scott spoke to the New West chamber May 21, after which it passed a resolution to support the proposal if all the mitigation measures it proposes are adhered to.<\/p>\n<p>How do you envision <strong>Agassiz<\/strong> in the year 2040? The District of Kent continues to <a title=\"New Agassiz OCP needs more voices\" href=\"http:\/\/www.agassizharrisonobserver.com\/news\/208704681.html?utm_source=feedly\">seek public input into the direction of the Official Community Plan<\/a> \u2014 the document that helps plan future development.<\/p>\n<p>Sensing a <a title=\"Council calls for town hall meeting ROGERS TOWER\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coastreporter.net\/article\/20130524\/SECHELT0101\/305249972\/-1\/sechelt0101\/council-calls-for-town-hall-meeting?utm_source=feedly\">lack of broad community consultation<\/a> regarding the proposed Rogers Communications tower replacement at the<strong> Gibsons<\/strong> fire hall, Gibsons council has called for a town hall meeting to address community concerns before any decision is made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Feedback on Port Moody&#8216;s draft official community plan shows the public is somewhat split on the proposal.\u00a0At Tuesday&#8217;s committee of the whole meeting, PoMo planning staff presented council with a hefty package containing the draft OCP, along with about 700 pages of public engagement results.<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/05\/24\/neighbourhood-watch-80\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Neighbourhood Watch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6024,"featured_media":21169,"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":[80],"tags":[11444,11445,11428,337,2220,707,8899,2288],"class_list":["post-21168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-agassiz","tag-gibsons","tag-headlines-2","tag-neighbourhood-watch","tag-new-westminster","tag-news","tag-penticton","tag-port-moody"],"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\/2013\/05\/24\/neighbourhood-watch-80\/\" \/>\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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