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MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 31, 2013

 

Councillor Carr Hosts Town Hall Meetings on Democracy and Development in Vancouver 

 

In response to the growing rift between City Council and city neighbourhoods, Adriane Carr, Vancouver’s first Green Party City Councillor, is hosting three Town Hall meetings focused on democracy and development in Vancouver. The meetings will include short presentations by Carr, local community representatives, and planning experts as well as question and answer sessions. Admission is free. 

 

What:             Town Hall Meetings on Democracy and Development in Vancouver hosted by City Councillor Adriane Carr

 

Details:            West End Town Hall: Saturday Nov. 2

10:30 am-12:30, St. Paul’s Church, 1130 Jervis Street

 

Invited speakers: local resident Jennifer Fox, former Vancouver City Planner Peter Burch                       

 

Grandview-Woodland Town Hall: Saturday Nov. 2 

2:30-4:30 pm, Britannia/Eastside Family Place Canuck’s Room, William St at Grandview Park

 

Invited speakers: Jak King of Grandview-Woodland Area Council, former Vancouver City Planner Peter Burch 

 

                        Marpole Town Hall: Wednesday Nov. 6

7-9:30 pm, Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre, 990 W. 59^th Ave

 

Invited speakers: Mike Burdick of Marpole Residents’ Association, former Vancouver City Planner Peter Burch, UBC Chair of Urban Design Patrick Condon

 

For more information contact Adriane Carr. Cell 778-886-4560.

 

 

 

 

Non-profits to bid for Onni amenities

 

Comment:  Wonder why this process is different from the MV-PACES award of valuable community amenity space in a new building in Lolo?  That seemed to have been done totally behind closed doors? Estimated value of this space,  now referred to as a “community centre” is $38,000 annually.

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From the North Shore News:

City of North Vancouver council has named several non-profits it will consider as operators of roughly $10-million worth of affordable housing and childcare space in the yet-to-be-built Onni condo towers at Lonsdale Avenue and 13th Street.

Council voted Oct. 21 to invite S.U.C.C.E.S.S, Hollyburn Family Services, the YMCA of Metro Vancouver and the My Own Space Housing Society to submit proposals to lease or own the roughly 12 units the city negotiated

The staff report and content of the council debate on the matter, however, were kept behind closed doors in an incamera committee session. The city allowed Onni another 82,000 square feet of developable space in exchange 6,100 square feet of childcare space and 10,000 square feet of affordable housing when the project was approved in January.

Couns. Craig Keating and Linda Buchanan and Mayor Darrell Mussatto voted against the motion to request proposals, however. The last time it was up for debate in June, Keating argued the affordable housing should go to My Own Space, a West Vancouver-based nonprofit that lobbied council heavily to approve the Onni project in hopes the units could go to adults with disabilities. Keating argued that council had a history of selecting non-profits to use city-owned spaces without open competitions.

Lonsdale Creek Daycare Society and North Shore Neighbourhood House have also been invited to respond to a similar request for proposal for the childcare space in the development.

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