{"id":9265,"date":"2012-05-30T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=9265"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:10:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:10:32","slug":"janes-walkhome-an-exploration-of-what-makes-the-west-end-unique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/05\/30\/janes-walkhome-an-exploration-of-what-makes-the-west-end-unique\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane’s Walk Special: Seeds of Change in the West End"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Jane's Walk in the West End started at Denman and moved through to Burrard. (photo: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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[Editor’s Note<\/strong>: We are happy to present the last of three InDepth Features covering a trio of special Jane’s Walk neighbourhood tours around Marpole, Grandview-Woodland, and the West End. These were organized as a unique partnership between the City of Vancouver, Museum of Vancouver and Spacing Vancouver, in light of the ongoing Community Plan process currently happening in each important district. This will be followed by podcasts of the tour, if you missed the Walks, and a final dialogue event on June 19th. Stay tuned for more information.]<\/em><\/p>\n

The West End is a neighbourhood that is definitive of the urban changes that have affected Vancouver over its history. The City\u2019s oldest suburb has seen shifts in form and demographics over the past century since the peninsula west of what is now Burrard Street was surveyed in 1882 as New Liverpool<\/a>. From Victorian homes to walk-up apartment blocks, to mid-century modernist towers, to contemporary tower and podium \u201cVancouverism\u201d, the neighbourhood has shifted intensity and focus with each new coming flux of residents and development pressures. It has become one of the most dense communities in Canada, yet still sees redevelopment and regeneration pressures as the community continues to mature.<\/p>\n

On Sunday May 6, a well-attended Jane’s Walk was held highlighting the public spaces and significant points of development history in the West End. Guided by Christine Ackermann, President of the West End Residents Association (WERA<\/a>) and urban designer Graham McGarva<\/a> of VIA Architecture, the discussion tracked paradigm shifts within the neighbourhood and reactions to interventions of connectivity, affordability, density and public space provision.\u00a0 The City of Vancouver’s John Grottenberg\u2014Planning Analyst for the West End\u00a0Community Planning Team<\/a>\u2014<\/em>was also present, lending his insights about the important neighbourhood.
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<\/em>The overarching concept of the Walk was to convey an understanding of design and planning or the area, not only as it exists today, but also with a mindfulness to its history and sharp awareness of how interventions today can\u2014and will\u2014impact directions in the future. With this in mind, a carefully planned route was chosen to usher attendees through the complex issues affect the neighbourhood. The sequence and issues are succinctly described below and are followed by more a in-depth analysis of key insights as they related to the tour:<\/p>\n

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Route and Stops for the West End Jane's Walk (Base Image: West End Community Plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stop 1:<\/em> West End Community Centre<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Looking forward to the Community Plan.
\nStop 2:<\/em> Greenway Behind the Centre<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Planting the saplings of change.
\nStop 3:<\/em> Behind Sunset Towers\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Reimagining Lanes and Housing.
\nStop 4:<\/em> Barclay Heritage Square\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 New ways of looking at parks and retention.
\nStop 5:<\/em> Pocket Parks and Traffic Calming\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 experiments and expansion
\nStop 6:<\/em> St. Johns\u2019 redevelopment\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 STIRing Contention and new relationships with towers.
\nStop 7:<\/em> Comox – Helmcken Greenway\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A coming corridor as a public spine.
\nStop 8:<\/em> E<\/strong>rickson\u2019s Sunset and Henriques<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Changed theories behind tower density.
\nStop 9:<\/em> Renovictions<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Losing affordability in the face of change.
\nStop 10:<\/em> Renewing Nelson Park<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Urban gardens and a changing public space.
\n<\/strong>Stop 11:<\/em> Mole Hill\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A gold standard in design.<\/p>\n

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Stop#7 Current traffic calming measures on the future Comox greenway. (Photo: Brendan Hurley) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stop#2 This 'greenway' suggests possible connections. (Photo: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Design Impacting the Future:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The power behind placing and responding to ideas that help shape the city is that small, but well thought out, actions can build in momentum and have major future impacts on the rest of the urban environment. Planting and retaining trees as well as buildings can help to define and focus paths and spaces in a neighourhood, giving them character and identity. If done well that can influence further interventions. City building and design do not exist in a vacuum and, as such, ideas grow off of each other. Just as the metaphorical journey starts with a single step, a ‘forest’ of the urban places starts by planting the first saplings, and will mature by tending from many hands.<\/p>\n

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Stop#3 Existing lane conditions (Photo: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stop#11 Mole Hill Green Lane (Photo: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Streets and Connections:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The grid-iron of the West End has had few apparent changes to its streets and block structure over the last 130 years. The treatment of these streets is where design and planning has had an impact. Traffic calming has been present in the neighbourhood since the 60s, and has increased to a level that there are few unimpeded routes between trafficked arterials.<\/p>\n

The neighbourhood has an emphasis towards pedestrian movement, but new initiatives are attempting to improve biking and walking infrastructure.\u00a0The Comox-Helmcken Greenway<\/a> [Stop#7<\/em>] has been on the books for years, yet the $6 million earmarked for the project in the last budget still requires an official neighbourhood plan for the process to continue.<\/p>\n

Further connectivity may be achieved by utilizing forgotten and potential passages. At 33 feet (10m), the lanes of the West End are some of the widest in the city, and have room for potential activity and programming. Ackermann felt that the lanes are the West End\u2019s \u2018backyard\u2019, but that more needs to be done to make them inviting and responsive to residents\u2019 needs. Some lanes and block cuts have the potential as neighbourhood greenways [Stop#1-4<\/em>], while others can become that ‘backyard’ by sharing parking and service infrastructure functions with paving, furniture and planting treatments to emphasize their use by people [Stop#11<\/em>].<\/p>\n

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Stop#4 Barclay Heritage Square is a park that includes retained heritage housing (Photo: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stop#10 Nelson Park gardens and paths (Photo: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Parks and Public Spaces:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There were few park and school sites set aside in the downtown, and the spaces that have developed have done so through assembly and demolition of preexisting housing over the last century. In some cases public space expansion has been connected to social housing provision, such as Sunset Towers [Stop#2&3<\/em>], while in others there have been creative solutions and redefinitions of ‘public good’. In Barclay Heritage Square<\/a>\u00a0[Stop#4<\/em>] \u2013 a defining project for Graham McGarva \u2013 a shift in thinking on the nature of ‘parks’ was necessary to retain a number of key heritage buildings on \u2018Park Site 19\u2019. A treatment as a connected network of Edwardian gardens and greens allowed 9 heritage houses\u00a0to be retained as part of the park\u2019s structure and value.<\/p>\n

A similar assembly of properties for the expansion of Nelson Park\u00a0led to the re-imagining of the heritage housing of Mole Hill<\/a>\u00a0[Stop#11<\/em>]. Now a housing cooperative replete with connected and self maintained green spaces, gardens, and a pedestrian oriented lane,\u00a0it is seen by many as a gold standard for design practice in the West End. Nelson Park<\/a>\u00a0[Stop#10<\/em>], in turn, has dramatically transformed into a people place that attracts casual and intentional users with gardens, play areas, and dog runs, while regularly adapting street space for farmers markets. One of the only concerns\u2014 as described by Ackermann\u2014is that the park still does not have a promised public washroom.<\/p>\n

Another creative West End solution to public space provision has been the creation of Pocket Parks [Stop#5<\/em>]. These spaces fit into the rights-of-way of north-south streets have dual purposes of aiding traffic calming, while providing spaces for residents to no only walk and cycle through, but also linger in. Appropriate programming is especially important in these spaces, as underused shuffleboards and inaccessible planting are all too common. The success of these interventions has led to proposals for expansion, including an extension of the Broughton Pocket Park Nelson through to Comox as part of the St Johns Church redevelopment<\/a> [Stop#6<\/em>].<\/p>\n

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Stop#8 Eras in high density living face each other at 1200 block Nelson. (Photo: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Housing, Density and Affordability:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With a continual influx of resident demographic groups and development pressures guiding the West End\u2019s development, there has been identifiable shifts in building and unit types as well as how residents adapt and respond to them. Dwellings intended for a single family have been transformed into multi-unit apartments while rental units in towers have gradually become more geared towards housing singles and seniors. Yet incoming pressures also include the needs of families trying to make a go-of-it in this dense neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

With the changes in density there have also been modifications to how developments address the urban environment. In a poignant example at the 1200 block of Nelson [Stop#8<\/em>], the 1960s modernist towers of Arthur Erickson\u2014an \u201cantiurban response set back from the street with a vehicular access lane and inaccessible green space”\u2014faces a 1990s post-modern tower of\u00a0 Richard Henriquez, where density bonusing was given for heritage retention of a walk-up next door and landscape amenities addressing the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

Due to stable older housing stock and other factors, the West End has been an area of relative affordability for a number of years, despite its proximity to the city\u2019s core. It has also been a neighbourhood of renters. In an effort to up-value rents, the trend of \u201crenovictions\u201d\u00a0 has risen [Stop#9<\/em>], where building owners drive out existing tenants under the guise of \u201csuite improvements\u201d and bring in new ones at substantially higher rates. Previously, stratifying the units for sale had a similar effect. (That practice has been ended by direct policy protecting existing purpose-built rental stock.)<\/p>\n

A number of other efforts to help guide affordability and tenancy have also occurred\u00a0over the years. In past years, there were incentives to build rental stock and seniors housing. Some of that emphasis has shifted to providing units for low income and hard-to-house, as clearly demonstrated by the shift at Sunset Towers [Stop#3<\/em>].<\/p>\n

There have also been a number of Cooperative Housing strategies to create affordable housing mix\u2014one of the most successful, as mentioned earlier, is the Mole Hill Co-op [Stop#11<\/em>]. Due to its adaptive reuse of existing heritage buildings, it can be seen as high-density housing model in low-rise form .<\/p>\n

Furthermore, there has recently been a city initiative of Short Term Investments for Rental (STIR) in the West End neighbourhood.\u00a0 This has caused outcry as the incentives (such as density) have been enacted through \u2018spot zoning\u2019 outside of a cohesive neighbourhood plan, and in many cases has led to the redevelopment of existing heritage or landmark structures [Stop#5<\/em>].<\/p>\n

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Stop#9 Renovictions causing affordability issues. (Photo: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stop#6 Incoming STIR tower sparking concerns of planning without a Community Plan (Photo: Brendan Hurley)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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Community:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the end, the upcoming Community Planning process is about making places home, as a community. City Plan has been a ground-up initiative \u2013 a process wherein the ideas, concerns and hopes of residents are incorporated into a plan that attempts to compile and facilitate that shared direction. As this is the early stage of a renewed process, now is the best time and the most fertile environment to plant the ideas and seedlings that will effect the paths these community takes. It is also the time to tend those elements that need to be carried forward to the next stages of thinking<\/a> about what the West End, Marople and Grandview-Woodland communities are…and what they could be for the next generation of Vancouverites.<\/p>\n

Graham McGarva\u2019s poem about urban childhood and growing up was recited to us at Nelson Park, and seems a provocative and hopeful thought to end on.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUnfortunately, you may not notice.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

young girl \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0walking \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 alone<\/p>\n

to school.
\nblond pigtails
\npencil case coloured paper
\nguileless inside her transparent backpack.<\/p>\n

Motherwoman, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0bending over
\n(cup of coffee in one hand
\ncigarette behind her back)
\ntalking childtalk
\nwaiting for the light to change.<\/p>\n

girl skips up ahead the sidewalk
\nbrief pause at the next intersection
\nglancing round with a quick
\ncatch-me-if-you-can<\/p>\n

The Mother-woman \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0calling
\n\u201cfast walker; fast walker\u201d
\nhalf out loud falls behind.<\/p>\n

girl-skipping across park corner
\nmarking her way to school
\nI \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0half turn \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0to see where the
\nWoman
\nperhaps\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0could be
\na block away at the curb
\nperhaps \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a total stranger<\/p>\n

\u00a0the only child seen in years self-walking to school.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There once was
\nA normal world
\nWhere children grew up
\nOn the walk to and from school.
\nHandling traffic
\nHandling Strangers
\nSkipping lightly in the almost spring.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 8th<\/sup> 2000<\/em><\/p>\n

Bute Street, Vancouver, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

Graham McGarva \u2013 The Architecture of Love<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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