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Eco Density

Posted by crunchy | August 10, 2007 .

Yes, I am back…well trying to make a come back.

I am feeling a bit better…..when not falling asleep. I am sooooo tired.

My MIL is still in the ICU, but life must go on. We are trying. Stiff upper lip and all that.

Anyway, my brain IS starting to function again, so I thought I better post here. I have neglected all you folks and I miss you.

This was the feature post in today’s Vancouver Courier. I love this paper. They do a far better job or reporting about our city than the rags we pay for.

This ecodensity thing has been sticking in my craw too. I think it is a pretty and crunchy sounding catch phrase that hides the whole concept of DEVELOPMENT and GREEDY REALTORS snorfling around behind it.

What is ECO about MORE people living in a smaller space? More people using the water, the power. Example. A few weeks ago, BC Hydro had a transformer or something blow up. It was the one half of the power supply for downtown. Apparently the downtown core is having a hard time with the USAGE it is facing these hot days.

Apparently it was fine before. Hmmm, I thought. Fine before you built more and more and more tall shiny condos filled with people. People who use electricity. Was this not every thought about BEFORE all the development?

If not, this does not bode well for the rest of the city.

I have noticed that while there have been the odd squawk about carriage houses and so on being built on the west side…the REAL densification has been in East Vancouver and especially along the Kingsway Corridor. Granted Kingsway could use a face lift. But the towers they are building are just a bloody eyesore along the skyline. Soon they will join the towers along the Burnaby part of Kingsway…..the Metrotown area is booming with condomania but being that this area was mostly apartments and small businesses, I don’t think the impact has been so huge except on the eye. Kingsway in Vancouver has behind it, nothing but old timer residences. Family neighbourhoods.

You can’t add more people without adding more to the infrastructure.  This means, schools, parks, daycare, community centres, doctors, shopping, transit, etc.  I don’t see these get much mention in any plans.  Things crucial to building a neighbourhood.  Where is the plans for new businesses for these people to work at so they don’t HAVE to buy cars to commute.  Where is the improved transit.  Don’t talk to me about the Canada Line.
Does the densification include dwellings for families or is it MORE small size townhomes and condo’s?

They tell us to grow our own veggies?  Where?

You cannot base the growth of a city through the eyes of real estate developers.  This has been our problem for the last 20 years.

There is no sustainability in this.

More people need to ask questions.  Push people like our city council for answers.  I have emailed them all and heard nothing.  More people need to keep bugging them.
I have been emailing the GVHC board members about the plans for all the social housing developments in Vancouver.  Nothing.  I will keep bugging them about this.

Same goes for this strike.   We need to sticking our noses in more.  Pressure BOTH sides to come to some sort of agreement.

This is OUR city.  We should have a say in it’s growth.


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  1. DirkStar August 15, 2007 10:01 am

    I wondered where you’d gone. I hope all is well and I’ll put in a prayer word.