Is Vancouver's housing bubble and density destroying what made the city so livable?
"The solutions to healthy and balanced downtown growth are certainly not to be found in the ideas of our current [Vancouver] director of central area planning, Larry Beasley, who recently hit [Seattle] in his extended roadshow of American colleges and city halls, selling his latest branding of "Vancouver-ism" to the land of his birth.
...Our restaurants are full, tourists pack the sidewalks, and the climax forest of condominium apartment towers is now nearing a complete buildout on our land-limited downtown peninsula, with False Creek on one side, Burrard Inlet on the other. Downtown Vancouver appears to pros-per, but in the complex world of city building, appearances can be deceiving.
...Well-intended but badly mismanaged downtown land-use policies ensure any future corporate successes, like a Vancouver-grown Starbucks or Amazon.com, will be obliged to leave our burg, because 90-plus percent of our best downtown sites went for condos, not offices."
FULL STORY: Trouble in paradise

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