{"id":22984,"date":"2013-10-04T15:44:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T22:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=22984"},"modified":"2013-10-04T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T22:44:23","slug":"neighbourhood-watch-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/10\/04\/neighbourhood-watch-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Garry Litke\u00a0got a very <a title=\"Mayor takes spin around Penticton in a wheelchair\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pentictonwesternnews.com\/news\/226385501.html\" target=\"_blank\">small taste of life on the streets<\/a> of <strong>Penticton<\/strong> in a wheelchair, complete with all the bumps and jars the disabled have to take as they navigate the streets and sidewalks of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Emails won&#8217;t be replacing good old-fashioned sit-downs at <strong>Bowen Island<\/strong> Municipality (BIM) meetings anytime soon. But local politicians are still <a title=\"Bowen Island council won't be permitted to make decisions via email, seeks other methods to make quick approvals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bowenislandundercurrent.com\/news\/226374221.html\" target=\"_blank\">exploring ways to make decisions more efficiently<\/a> when it comes to smaller issues.<\/p>\n<p>A collection of 23 vintage Canadian rail coaches as well as one infamous locomotive stored in a <strong>New Westminster<\/strong> warehouse is <a title=\"Historic rail collection threatened by redevelopment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newwestnewsleader.com\/news\/226385461.html\" target=\"_blank\">in danger of being broken up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A complete overhaul of <strong>Nelson<\/strong>\u2019s <a title=\"Nelzon zoning proposal unveiled\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonstar.com\/news\/226356021.html\" target=\"_blank\">land use and zoning bylaw is ready for public review<\/a>.\u00a0City planners have spent more than a decade revising the original 1987 bylaw, which regulates municipal development issues like land use, density, building size and off-street parking.<\/p>\n<p>A program to allow <a title=\"Secondary suite program gets go-ahead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.burnabynewsleader.com\/news\/226323681.html\" target=\"_blank\">secondary suites to be legalized<\/a> in <strong>Burnaby<\/strong> will start in January but will not be enforced until Jan. 1, 2015.\u00a0That will allow time to educate the public and implement the program, said city council, which gave the go-ahead to the program Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. 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