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Mayor Robertson gets emotional over opioid crisis

Mike Howell

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I’ve got to say that in my many years of covering city hall, I’ve never seen Mayor Gregor Robertson cry.

He almost did last Wednesday, July 26.

He shifted in his chair in council chambers, made one of those faces people make before the tears roll, then paused mid-sentence.

“There’s a loss of hope…”

The mayor was referring to the drug overdose crisis and the mounting death toll.

He had just heard from city staff that 216 people in Vancouver this year have died of a suspected overdose.

He also heard how city staff and doctors and non-profit organizations and volunteers and harm reduction advocacy groups were all in overdrive to reduce the death toll.

“It’s been just excruciating living through this, witnessing it and seeing the devastation in the community,” he said moments before he got emotional. “And it’s hard to believe it just keeps on going at the pace that it has, despite

all the incredible work.”

I’ll pause here to allow all the Robertson haters to guffaw, scream, yell — whatever it is you do when you read something like this — and accuse him of putting on an act, playing to the cameras, etc.

And you might as well continue your hater thing for Vision Vancouver when I tell you that Coun. Andrea Reimer actually did cry in what was an emotionally charged afternoon; she’s been driven to tears a few times this term when on the topics of overdose deaths and social problems in this city.

For the record, I don’t recall Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr or the NPA trio of George Affleck, Elizabeth Ball and Melissa De Genova requiring any Kleenex during the debate, although Affleck got kinda loud.

More on this in a sec…

The minutes of the meeting won’t capture the drama, only that council unanimously approved 16 grants totalling $601,800 to nonprofits to help mitigate the effects of the overdose crisis. The money will go to “anti-stigma

216 people in Vancouver have died of a suspected overdose this year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

programs,” expand outreach services in the Aboriginal community, provide peer support to reach drug users who use alone and offer services to areas of the city outside the Downtown Eastside.

The chunk of cash is the remainder of the $3.5 million council approved last December to respond to the opioid overdose crisis, with $1.9 million of that used to deploy a three-person medic team of firefighters.

So why so much drama if the vote was unanimous?

Well, there’s this thing called politics.

Last week’s meeting was essentially a continuation of a February battle that Ball quite accurately described as juvenile.

I won’t repeat what transpired back then but regular readers will recall it was the same meeting in which De Genova wondered out loud whether Reimer called her a murderer. The frosty relationship between those two was on full display Wednesday, with Reimer at one point saying to De Genova that “as much as this feels like grade school, it’s not.”

The remark came after De Genova tattled on the mayor

for saying off-mic that a passionate/angry/loud Affleck should be ashamed of himself for suggesting the one-week old NDP government could have already put up some money to battle the crisis.

Affleck said this while arguing for an amendment tabled

by De Genova, who requested the mayor write a letter to the government demanding cash to tackle the crisis.

I should note that Vision Coun. Raymond Louie called De Genova’s request “absolutely asinine” — a comment that sparked more arguing, points of order and classy behaviour.

Louie later agreed, after a short recess called by Reimer to cool the political temperature in the room, that a letter be sent to Premier John Horgan and Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Judy Darcy to match the $601,800 for the grants. He did that on the condition the NPA councillors vote for the grants.

At the root of this monthslong back-and-forth is the NPA’s belief that the drug overdose crisis is a provincial and national issue that

should be directly addressed by senior governments — and that the more Vancouver spends on tackling the crisis will simply let Horgan and Trudeau off the hook.

This is the point in my piece where NPA haters can guffaw, scream, yell — do whatever it is you do when you read something like this — and accuse Affleck and company of being tone deaf to the carnage in this city.

Watching all this fussing and fighting were some of the city’s best minds on how to address the crisis, including Dr. Patricia Daly, Dr. Mark Tyndall, the city’s Mary Clare Zak, Aboriginal leader Kevin Barlow, harm reduction activists such as Karen Ward and representatives from nonprofits, who implored council to approve the $601,800 in grants. Which, after the better part of three hours, they did.

What was it like to be in the audience? The mounting death toll tells me all the non-politicians in the room wish they had spent their time more valuably, perhaps back on the frontlines focused on saving a life or two.

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Liberal leader Christy Clark is ‘done with public life’

Mike Howell

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Reporters got the full Christy Clark on her final news conference Monday as leader of the B.C. Liberals: She was characteristically upbeat, predictably partisan and, at times, philosophical about her six-and-a-half years as premier of a province now run by Premier John Horgan and the NDP. Will she run again?

She provided two answers, one short, one long.

“I’m done with public life,” she said, standing with her teenaged son, Hamish, on a patio on the ninth floor of the Shaw Tower downtown. The backdrop was Stanley Park, the North Shore mountains and a busy harbour, all lit up by the sun.

So that’s it — you’ve ruled out politics, altogether?

“I’m not planning on going back, that’s for sure,” said Clark, who announced her resignation July 28 and will spend her last day as leader this Friday. “You know, to me politics isn’t a happy job — like it’s not a fun job, really. It’s a fulfilling job though and it’s really

interesting and I love doing it. And to me, life is not about being happy, though — life is about doing service for others. So I’m going to find a way in my next career to do service, to continue to do service, to try and make other people’s lives better. Because to me, that’s the path to happiness. But I don’t see that being in politics anymore. I think being premier of British Columbia for six-and-a-half years was such a privilege, I don’t think I can get a better, more interesting, more fulfilling political job.”

The news conference lasted just under 13 minutes. It began with the 51-year-old Clark first talking about her son and explaining why she decided seven years ago to seek the leadership of the B.C. Liberals. She did it, she said, because she wanted Hamish to “see me in public life, wanted [him] to see me try to do good in the world and do public service.”

Then she went into what resembled campaign mode, listing off her party’s accomplishments over her term.

B.C., she said, had the fastest growing economy in the

Former B.C. premier Christy Clark, with her son Hamish, spoke to reporters Monday at what was the Liberal leader’s final news conference before she retires Aug. 4. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

country, with 200,000 jobs created and five consecutive balanced budgets. Thousands of people were put to work on the Site C dam and the government negotiated labour agreements that “were affordable,” leading to “the longest period of labour peace with the teachers.”

Her government, she continued, reduced the number of children in care by a third,

more children were adopted and “thousands” of single parents moved from welfare to the workforce under a program called the single-parent employment initiative. The Great Bear Rainforest was protected and the government concluded treaties and signed more than 450 agreements with First Nations, she added.

“I would say I’m proud of

all of [the accomplishments], but, you know, as a leader you know when it’s your time to leave, and this was my time to leave,” said Clark, who revealed she was prepared to resign the day her government lost a confidence vote in the B.C. legislature to the NDP and the Greens.

That vote confirmed what she was thinking on election night — that she knew “in my heart” it was time to leave. She stopped short of announcing her resignation on the day of the confidence vote to allow time for her caucus to get set up in the Opposition offices and get organized.

Clark’s son spoke briefly to reporters, saying he wasn’t prepared to speak and wasn’t aware his mom was taking him to a news conference. Asked what his reaction was to learning his mom would no longer be working in politics, he said he felt relieved.

“Six-and-a-half years has been a long time,” he said.

“She’s been premier for most of my life, that I can remember. So I think it’s going to be an interesting change. It’s going to be re-

ally cool, going to be fun.”

Clark said she and her son plan to attend several theatre shows, having just purchased two subscriptions to the Arts Club Theatre Company productions.

Clark said she will spend more time ensuring Hamish does his homework as he enters Grade 11.

To a question about whether she would recommend Hamish one day pursue his mom’s path in politics, Clark said what he does is completely up to him.

“He’s a talented young man,” she said. “I think he has a great future in theatre.

I’m looking forward to being a stage mom.”

Premier Horgan has six months to call a byelection to replace Clark, who served as MLA for Westside-Kelowna.

Clark’s resignation leaves the Liberals with 42 seats to the NDP’s 41 and the Greens, three. The NDP and the Greens agreed to a powersharing agreement after the May 9 election, which topped the Liberals after a 16-year reign in B.C. politics.

A longer version of this story can be found at vancourier.com. @Howellings

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Jean Swanson is not Judy Graves. And Judy Graves is not Jean Swanson.

But when matching up the two longtime social justice activists’ years of fighting on behalf of homeless people and calling for more social housing in Vancouver, the two women vying to be the city’s next city councillor share the same passion for improving the lives of the downtrodden.

And it’s that similarity in values that will likely challenge left-of-centre voters when they head to the polls in the Oct. 14 byelection.

Graves still has to win a nomination meeting Aug. 27 but is expected to be the candidate for the OneCity Party, whereas Swanson is running as an independent.

How Swanson and Graves will distinguish themselves from each other is a question Swanson expected Tuesday when she announced her candidacy.

She made her announcement in front of a crowd of about 50 supporters gathered outside an apartment building at 10th and Main, where tenants are facing eviction and rent hikes.

“I haven’t heard anything from her about helping to build a movement for justice, about opening up city hall for people who are fighting for justice, about really trying to shake things up and deal with inequality and taxing the rich,” said Swanson when asked about Graves. “She’s a nice person, but I think I’ve got stronger policies and my crew here has way stronger policies and they’re going to keep me honest with them.”

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Swanson’s comments later in a telephone interview, saying the party will be rolling out its full platform later this month. She said she wasn’t able “to speak for the team right now but I think people will be pleased with what we’re putting forward.”

In an interview last month with the Courier, Graves said OneCity has discussed policy to ensure 20 to 30 per cent of new buildings be rented at one-third of the income of tenants and to create neighbourhood councils to advise on development.

Swanson’s top priorities include convincing the provincial government to give Vancouver the power to implement a four-year rent freeze and work to build more than 2,000 modular housing units — to match the number of homeless people recorded in a homeless count in March — until permanent housing is built.

“It’s not acceptable to me, or most of the young folks who have been pushing me to run, that the average rent in Vancouver —

get this — is now more than the total monthly income from a full-time minimum wage job,” said Swanson, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1988 against the NPA’s Gordon Campbell.

“It’s not acceptable that if rents keep going up at the current rate, in four years a one-bedroom apartment will be $4,000 a month.”

Swanson is a former organizer with the now-defunct Downtown Eastside Residents’ Association and a person who has spent long hours energizing various anti-poverty coalitions and groups over the years, including the Carnegie Community Action Project.

That work was recognized last year with the Order of Canada.

Graves is best known as the city’s former homeless advocate, a position she essentially forced the city to create in response to information she collected and observations she made about Vancouver’s homeless during her after-work hours walks on the streets.

Graves also once worked

at Cordova House with people stricken with personality disorders, depression, schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. When she retired in May 2013, her work, which included criticizing the provincial government, was celebrated by one of the unlikeliest of politicians, then-housing minister Rich Coleman.

“Your work with the homeless and those at risk of homelessness in the Downtown Eastside is unparalleled and has served as an inspiration to many,” Coleman wrote in a note read out at Graves’ retirement party. “Your tireless effort, gentle approach and vast knowledge has given a human face to the issue and changed thousands of lives for the better.”

The Oct. 14 byelection is being held to fill a seat left vacant by Geoff Meggs, who resigned as a Vision Vancouver councillor to accept a position as chief of staff to Premier John Horgan. The city’s three mainstream parties – Vision Vancouver, the NPA and the Green Party — have yet to name a candidate.

Meena Wong, who ran as COPE’s mayoral candidate in the 2014 election, attended Swanson’s launch Tuesday and said she is encouraging COPE members to support Swanson rather than run a candidate. When Swanson ran for mayor in 1988, she ran as the COPE/ Civic NDP candidate.

“We’d love for her to run as a COPE candidate, but we want to build a movement here,” said Wong, noting COPE’s nomination meeting is still scheduled for Aug. 29. “We encourage all people who support Jean to come out to that meeting.” @Howellings

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Mayor avoids pipeline talk with Trudeau Affordable housing, opioid crisis and transit infrastructure discussed in 30-minute meeting

Mike Howell

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mayor Gregor Robertson met privately for 30 minutes Tuesday but did not discuss the one issue that divides both leaders: Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain 987-kilometre pipeline project to be built from Alberta to Burnaby.

Robertson has been vocal in his opposition to Trudeau’s decision in November 2016 to give the $6.8-billion project the green light, despite concerns from the mayor and local First Nations about an increase in oil tanker traffic in the waters surrounding Vancouver.

The meeting, which occurred in the federal government’s offices adjacent to Vancouver Public Library’s downtown branch, focused on affordable housing, the opioid overdose crisis and transit, said Robertson, when asked at a later news conference

about his meeting with the prime minister.

“We didn’t spend time talking about Kinder Morgan. The B.C. government is working on that to some degree and the First Nations are most focused on it at this point — and obviously the markets will dictate a lot of what’s happening, as well,” said the mayor, who added that he didn’t believe the split with Trudeau over Kinder Morgan would affect the city’s efforts to secure funding from the federal government for housing and other priorities.

“We have a long history and friendship. We have our differences on some issues, but we’re much more focused on where we can work together, and where we can get things done.”

Trudeau was not made available to media to discuss his conversation with Robertson, although he did speak briefly to reporters prior to the meeting at a staged photo opportunity inside government offices.

The prime minister said

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Mayor Gregor Robertson Tuesday at government offices downtown. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

he looked forward to collaborating with the city and provincial government on an increase to transit infrastructure, tackling the opioid crisis and boosting the amount of rental housing in Vancouver.

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He noted the federal government contributed money — $1.5 million — to the city’s first modular housing complex at Main and Terminal. Robertson planned to be in Victoria Wednesday to meet with Horgan and several ministers to also discuss funding the modular housing units.

The mayor said the city’s priorities align well with the governments of Trudeau and Horgan and is hopeful funds will be committed to build more housing, provide more addictions treatment and get the Broadway subway built.

“We’ve been in crisis for all nine years that I’ve been in office trying to grapple with [these issues], and with [former prime minister] Harper and [former premier] Clark gone now, we have a fighting chance of it and our council has to stay strong in pushing for solutions and we’ll be doing that,” Robertson said. @Howellings

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Why fireworks can be a drag for LGBTQ-2S+ community Sandra Thomas

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As West End resident Robert Kaiser was walking to work one night several years ago, someone in a passing car threw food and yelled at him.

“They called me a faggot,” said Kaiser, who was in drag at the time of the incident.

Kaiser, also known as the popular drag queen Joan-E, is a consummate volunteer who in past years was responsible for helping raise more than $500,000 through Bingo for Life. Proceeds went to the Vancouver Friends for Life Society, a nonprofit organization that assists individuals living with HIV and AIDS. His past honours include the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and induction into Canada’s Q Hall of Fame.

Kaiser said it was no surprise the incident took place during the annual fireworks festival, which has operated under several names in the past — most recently as the Honda Celebration of Light.

The festival is famous for attracting hundreds of thousands of bystanders, with a majority from out of town.

The fact that Pride Week in Vancouver coincides with the annual fireworks festival can make navigating the West End safely a challenge, said Kaiser. He added it’s a

time of year when many residents of the West End, and in particular some members of the LGBTQ2S+ community, get nervous about an increase in homophobic incidents in the neighbourhood.

“If you looked up the stats on emergency visits and police calls you’ll see it doesn’t seem to be a great recipe,” said Kaiser, who acts as an MC for the Pride Parade, which takes place the day after the final fireworks show.

“It’s impossible for me to get around and I’m involved in a lot of Pride events. I don’t think a guy who does all that deserves to be called a faggot.”

Moving into the West End years ago, Kaiser knew living downtown naturally equates with noise, sirens, music and lots of people.

“That’s part and parcel of living downtown,” said Kaiser. “That said, the fireworks brings out an element that forces residents to barricade their gardens and yards and you just never see that with Pride.”

It was reported previously in the Courier that during one fireworks festival there were 605 liquor pour-outs, four arrests for public intoxication, 28 liquor seizures, 26 weapons seizures, including three sets of brass knuckles, eight cans of pepper spray, four knives and an ice pick, 26 violation tickets written, two arrests for breach of the peace, 10 drug seizures and one

towners that their feeling of security can be threatened. People have told Rowe about walking alone and having homophobic slurs hurled at them either from a passing car or from a group walking down the street during the fireworks festival.

“People choose to live in the West End because of its history and gathering places,” said Rowe.

“But it’s who is visiting

the West End during times like this that don’t have the same world view.”

The Courier was not able to reach anyone from the West End BIA before press deadline. A woman who answered the phone at the West End Coal Harbour Community Policing Office said, “We’re not allowed to talk about things like that.”

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West End resident Robert Kaiser, also known as the popular drag queen Joan-E, says he has experienced homophobic comments and abuse during the annual fireworks competition.

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person arrested for an outstanding warrant. That same year the VPD reported no violations as the result of the Pride Parade.

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In the face of obvious failure, city resets its housing policy

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ancouver’s latest gamble, a “reset” to its housing policy, comes in the face of what has been an obvious failure. The notion aggressively pursued by Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Visiondominated council — that by dramatically increasing housing supply, prices would drop or at least stabilize — has proven disastrously wrong. Nor is this the only jurisdiction where this has been experienced.

Instead it has led to the “hollowing out” of the city causing middle income folks and millennials entering the workforce to flee to the suburbs or farther.

While city staff say Vancouver’s population is growing, in single-family neighbourhoods it is declining. The diversity

With a new government in Victoria and a relatively new Liberal government federally committed to re-investing in a National Housing Strategy, there is hope. But Robertson and his council intend to do more than just sit back and wait.

Their political fortunes depend on it, to say nothing of the very nature of the city.

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of incomes and occupations that have made Vancouver the city it is, or at least was, are at great risk.

Until recently, one could point the finger at a lack of participation by both the province and the federal government in dealing with what is generally accepted as a housing affordability crisis. (Witness the fact that Christy Clark took an electoral beating in Metro Vancouver in no small part because of her inaction on the affordable housing front. Even her knee-jerk foreign ownership tax is having debatable benefits.)

With a new government in Victoria and a relatively new Liberal government federally committed to re-investing in a National Housing Strategy, there is hope.

But Robertson and his council intend to do more than just sit back and wait. Their political fortunes depend on it, to say nothing of the very nature of the city.

The mayor, who gives the impression he’ll run for yet another term, is vulnerable on this issue. There seems to be a growing sense, even shared among some Vision councillors, that they are past their best-before date; a number who have served for more than a decade are looking at other options. Geoff Meggs was the first and likely won’t be the last to find opportunities elsewhere.

The housing “reset” was described in two sessions by staff to council this past week (sessions I sat through) and simply put it is this: development will be approved and targeted to “income bands,” as opposed to simply being broken down as social housing and affordable market housing and left to the market to

The city is resetting its approach to addressing Vancouver’s lack of affordable housing after years of dramatically increasing housing supply has proven disastrously wrong. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

decide what is “affordable.” Rents and sales prices will have to be proven “affordable” for people in specific income ranges up to a household income of $150,000 before the development is approved. There will also be a bias towards rental housing to maintain the approximately 50-50 balance between rental and home ownership that already exists.

To make this work, the city will offer the usual incentives including density bonuses, reduced parking requirement and new strategies to increase infill housing in single-family neighbourhoods.

Tying development to income bands is new here, but it has been used for decades south of the border; it is a basic requirement when it comes to federal funding for housing.

And not coincidentally, two new Vancouver hires who hail from the United States are intimately familiar with this strategy; they are the two senior bureaucrats who have the lead roles in dealing with housing. They came on board when this plan was in its infancy a year ago and it seems were hired with this signifi-

cant shift in direction in mind.

Gil Kelley, the head of planning, gained his experience in San Francisco, Oakland and Portland. Kaye Krishna the head of development services, saw this program at work in New York.

The “reset” comes with a couple of minor companion pieces that have already been rolled out: an “empty home tax” and restrictions of short-term rentals, which has led my colleague Michael Geller to conclude there will be a rash of tax evasion as a result — fake leases and the like among people with multiple dwellings, for starters. But that seems hardly enough reason to back off that or the entire “reset” project.

Beyond the voluminous details of this “reset,” the question we are faced with is this: Can we prevent Vancouver from becoming a hollowed-out place that increasingly lacks diversity in every sense? Be cynical about the possibilities for success if you like.

But more than Vision’s fortunes, this is the gamble we all have a stake in. @allengarr

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57-storey tower raises question: when is big too big?

Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

Someone once asked, “When you are sitting in the bathtub with the hot water running, how do you know when to shout?”

This quotation came to mind last week when Vancouver city council approved a rezoning application at Nelson and Burrard.

The development includes 331 market strata units in a 57-storey tower, 61 units of social housing, seismic upgrades and restoration of a church, and expanded facilities and program space for the church and surrounding community. It will be the third tallest tower in the city, for the time being.

The development is a partnership between the First Baptist Church of Vancouver and Westbank Project Corp — a company I greatly admire for working with top-notch architects and a commitment to design excellence. This architecturally striking tower, intended to resemble a pair of organ pipes, was designed by the late Bing Thom.

When a CBC reporter asked me what I thought of the design, I told her I thought it was very innovative and would appeal to those wanting to see more variety in Vancouver architecture. But I agreed with those who thought it was too big for the site and neighbourhood context.

She said she was surprised by my response. But she shouldn’t have been.

While I have often sought approvals for taller and higher density developments, in recent years I have become increasingly concerned with the size of some new Vancouver de-

Balmoral owners face 60 charges

The City of Vancouver is taking the owners of the Balmoral Hotel to court.

In early June, the city ordered the evacuation of the hotel’s tenants, saying that the building posed “significant life safety risks.”

On July 27, the city filed 60 charges against Balmoral Hotel Ltd., controlled by members of the Sahota family.

The city is alleging violations of its Standards Maintenance Bylaw. Eighteen of the infractions relate to an inspection on Jan. 31, 2017 and a further 42 were identified on April 19, 2017.

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velopments. In my opinion, they are simply too big.

However, city staff and politicians justify higher densities and heights noting the developments offer promises of greater housing affordability, community amenities and sustainability.

The famous American architect Louis Sullivan once said that building form should follow function. In the case of these projects, form follows finance.

I acknowledge that there are architects, planners and developers who disagree

Many new developments no longer relate to their surroundings. Their designs are formed by the significant density bonuses offered in return for amenities, affordable housing and cold hard cash.

In supporting this development, Mayor Gregor Robertson repeatedly told reporters it would provide much needed social housing units at a time when federal and provincial subsidies were not available. He is correct.

While council rightly rejected Chinatown’s 105 Keefer St. development, other developments have been approved at greater heights and densities than many planners considered appropriate since they offered public amenities, housing affordability and Community Amenity Contributions (CACs).

They include the Independent at Kingsway and Broadway, and 508 Helmcken, which, at a floor space ratio (FSR) of 17.4, is approximately 10 times the density of a typical Kerrisdale highrise. These buildings are now under construction and time will tell if my concerns were valid.

with my concerns. They question whether it really matters if a building is 30 storeys, 40 storeys or 50 storeys. What matters more to them is how the building is designed at the street level.

They believe FSR is a blunt instrument that should not be used to assess the likely success of a design.

I understand and appreciate this point of view.

However, it was not that long ago that six FSR was as high as the city would allow for residential development. Today double-digit FSR residential projects, like the Burrard and Nelson development, are becoming commonplace.

The debate over when is big too big reminds me of a radio interview with the late Arthur Erickson many years ago. In describing his design philosophy, he said it was important for new developments to relate to their surroundings. When the interviewer pointed out that

standard, as well as a lack of maintenance to plumbed facilities such as baths and toilets,” says a city press release.

The Courier interviewed several of the SRO (single room occupancy) tenants who were forced to leave the building in June.

One resident described a room in which the ceiling sagged, the walls were cracked and black mould was visible.

Cockroaches, bedbugs and rodents were plenty. Drug activity, fires and violence occurred outside her door. She paid $450 a month.

BC Housing was able to find 131 units for the former tenants.

The Sahota family had until July 14 to shore up the building so it doesn’t collapse.

The city has deemed it to be stabilized to its satisfaction.

“It’s critical that we protect this housing stock, which provides much needed affordable housing to some of the city’s most vulnerable residents,” Kaye Krishna, the city’s general manager of development, buildings and licensing, said last week.

In early June, Vancouver’s deputy manager Paul Mochrie estimated the repairs would cost several million dollars.

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over time surroundings will change, Erickson agreed.

But he added that future buildings should relate to his building designs, and so on.

As I look around Vancouver and other parts of Metro Vancouver, there is no doubt that many new developments no longer relate to their surroundings. Their designs are formed by the significant density bonuses offered in return for amenities, affordable housing and cold hard cash.

Each year Metro municipalities are receive hundreds of millions of dollars from developers in return for extra height and density.

Many will say this is a good thing; it means property taxes will not have to go up so much.

However, I worry that if we continue to allow housing affordability and CAC payments to drive project densities, heights and massing, we may ultimately compromise the quality of the built environment that has made Vancouver the envy of planners around the world. @michaelgeller

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RAISING A GLASS: Community leaders Kevin Mazzone, Ryan McKinley and Gary Serra helped kick off Vancouver’s Pride festivities on the right note.

Their annual Pride Cocktail Party staged at the Loden Hotel raised nearly $50,000 for the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation. Held at the downtown property’s penthouse suite, the event saw business and community leaders partying with a purpose, enjoying the views and food and drink while raising funds to support innovative health care at the Dr. Peter Centre in the city’s West End. Executive director Maxine Davis was on hand to thank le beau monde that convened for the sixth installment to imbibe and celebrate the work of the centre, dedicated to caring for HIV-positive British Columbians who are at risk of poverty, homelessness, mental illness, addiction or social isolation.

Among the services the Centre provides: a day health program, a 24-hour specialized nursing care residence, and a supportive housing program. Since its inception, the summer soiree with generous support from the Loden Hotel and the Lazy Gourmet has raised more than $175,000 for the charitable foundation.

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Gary Serra, Ryan McKinley and Kevin Mazzone’s Pride Cocktail Party at the Loden once again kicked off Vancouver’s Pride festivities on the right note. Their penthouse party generated nearly $50,000 for the Dr. Peter Centre.

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Community leader Caryl Dolinko and Isabelle Swiderski, co-chair of Vancouver’s LOUD Business, part of Vancouver’s LGBTQ business community, enjoyed the food and drink at the Pride reception while supporting the Dr. Peter Centre.

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Vancouver musicians are in a jam

Real estate, craft breweries, tech startups squeezing out rehearsal space for city’s music community

John Kurucz

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Imagine a world where beer and software trump bylaws and neighbours as a musician’s worst nightmare.

That scenario is very much in play right now, and it’s forcing hundreds of musicians across Vancouver to scramble to find rehearsal space.

Suna Studios owner Rob Stewart says affordable industrial space is becoming a scarcity in the city as craft breweries and tech start-ups increasingly buy up space that was historically converted from warehouse to rock house across Vancouver.

“This is what happens in every major city — gentrification, when it runs out of residential, creeps into industrial. Then you’re f***ed.” Stewart said.

Stewart’s two Suna rehearsal spaces are located towards the southern end of Clark Drive. Between them, they encompass 11,000 square feet and roughly 30 permanent rooms. Often referred to as lockout spaces,

those rooms top out around 200 square feet and house two or three bands.

Running jam spaces since 2009, he dove heavily into the market in 2014 when the going rate was $1 per square foot. He began looking for a third parcel of land in 2015 and during his 18-month search, lease rates doubled.

“There’s a lot of tech companies moving in, there’s a lot a less industrial land, and these companies can basically name their own price,” he said. “That’s the big problem right now with industrial land — it’s scarce and it’s very expensive.”

Located within a stone’s throw of Suna, Sanctuary Studios has fallen victim to that very trend. In operation for about a decade on Frances Street, the 5,000 squarefoot facility will close its doors permanently in September.

Skyrocketing lease rates were the death knell and upwards of 100 musicians are now displaced.

“I’m finally starting to come to grips with it,” studio co-owner Chris Pekar

Sanctuary Studios co-owners Chris Pekar and Dayvid Swart are closing down shop after almost seven years in business on Frances Street. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

said. “It’s very clear to us that the going rates weren’t going to work for us in terms of opening up a new venture.”

On average, the city’s lost at least one major rehearsal facility a year since 2010, displacing hundreds of musicians over that time.

Over that same timeframe, Mushroom Studio on Sixth Avenue closed.

Jim Buckshon has been navigating the murky waters of relocation and renoviction for 34 years. As owner of Renegade Productions, he’s now on his eighth rehearsal space in the city.

He says the only ways to make a go of it are shortterm leases or investing in buildings that are set for demolition. Neither scenario is sustainable, and both are unpredictable.

“I don’t know how the bands afford to rehearse and live in this city anymore,” he said.

Pandora’s Box owner Paul Alexander has been at his spot on Pandora and Franklin for nearly four years. The facility has 14 lockout spaces and five rooms rented hourly to musicians who come and go as they please. Some of his lockout spaces are still inhabited by the same bands who moved in on day one.

He’s got roughly 40 people on his waitlist and a lockout hasn’t become available since last year. Suna’s waitlist sits at 80, while of the 30 spaces available at Renegade, fewer than six are open.

“We only advertise the hourly rooms because the waiting list for the lockout rooms is so long. Some people have been on [the

waitlist] for years,” Alexander said.

Suna’s third location is set to open at some point between October and December on Clark Drive and William Street. More than 40 lockout spaces will open up, ranging between 200 and 400 square feet, and a waitlist process has already begun. A 17-year lease has been signed in order to offer some semblance of permanency.

Stewart has other plans to expand the city’s music scene as well. He’s partnered with a developer on a sevenstorey building near New Brighton Park, and three of those storeys will be specifically for music and the arts: lockout spaces, a concert venue and artist studios.

“Music saved my life and got me out of a lot of bad situations when I was young,” Stewart said. “I’ve been doing this for eight years and I’m not making a ton of money, but I’m not worried about the money right now because the mission is far more important than the means.” @JohnKurucz

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EPRA is a national not-for-proXt environmental stewardship agency dedicated to responsible recycling of end-of-life electronics. Their successful program is funded by an Environmental Handling Fee (EHF) that is charged on the purchase of new electronic items. This fee covers the costs associated with collection, handling and safe processing, so any item covered can be dropped off at a collection site at no additional cost and will be recycled responsibly, protecting both the environment and worker health and safety.

In BC, EPRA BC recycles virtually all unwanted electronics including computers, televisions, gaming devices, audio equipment, fax machines, scanners and printers.

Once the unwanted electronics have been dropped off at an authorized collection site they are taken to one of the EPRA BC approved recyclers. There they are broken down and are harvested for glass, plastic and metals which are used in the manufacturing of new products.

All unwanted electronic items covered in the program can be easily dropped off to be recycled properly at any of the EPRA authorized collection sites across the province.

This means natural resources stretch further and other still useful materials don t end up in the landXll. Plus, new electronic products are designed with the environment in mind and are smaller, lighter, using fewer materials in the manufacturing process. The shift towards light-weighting and designing for the environment is also reducing the need to source new raw materials.

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Talkin’ bout Powell Street Festival’s regeneration Canada’s oldest Japanese-Canadian festival returns for 41st year

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Downtown traffic will yield to Taikos and sumo wrestling as Canada’s oldest Japanese-Canadian festival takes over the area around Oppenheimer Park.

Running Aug. 5 and 6, the Powell Street Festival touts attractions spanning Japanese “blues cowboy” tunes to selfie-shooting competitions on a stage shaped like a massive sushi tray.

The festival is being held under the banner of regeneration, though what that means or how it manifests over the two days is anyone’s call.

“It’s open to interpretation in terms of thinking about things actually regenerating,” said festival artistic director Leanne Dunic.

Heading up the international flavour at the event is the duo of George and Nariko: the former is touted as a Japanese blues cowboy, while the latter hails from Australia and performs on a stringed instrument referred to as a Tsugaru shamisen.

Other, more authentic tunes come courtesy of Japan’s Ensemble Liberta and Kissyu, a consortium of Taiko groups from California.

The Firehall Arts Centre will play host to screenings

of the 2015 short film Born With It, which explores racial and cultural identify, along with episodes of Almost Asian, a web series that follows creator’s Katie Malia’s experiences as a biracial resident of Los Angeles.

Literary events include a special presentation by iconic Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s key translators Jay Rubin and Ted Goossen, the return of festivalfavourite Sally Ito, who will read from her new book Are You an Echo? and performances by Joy Kogawa and Soramaru Takayama.

Food vendors will be situated along Dunlevy and

Jackson Avenues, while a craft market, children’s activities and interactive installations will also be spread across the festival grounds.

Partial traffic closures will be in effect near Oppenheimer Park — Jackson and Dunlevy Avenues, Alexander and Cordova streets — and attendees are asked to take transit or cycle to the festival if possible.

A full schedule of the two-day event is online at powellstreetfestival.com. @JohnKurucz

Music, theatre, literature, parades and food are on the menu for the 41st annual Powell Street Festival, Aug. 5 and 6.

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Hundreds of thousands of spectators have already taken in this year’s Honda Celebration of Light, and hundreds of thousands more are expected for the final night this weekend.

Team Canada will dazzle the crowd Saturday night, following Japan last Saturday and the United Kingdom on Wednesday.

In an effort to spread the crowd out a bit, some of the pre-festival activities, including musical performances and kids’ activities, have been moved to Second Beach.

The fireworks show will be also visible from Second Beach, with a partially obstructed view.

“We’re also encouraging people to come down a little earlier as part of the ability to manage crowds, to filter them through throughout the afternoon,” Paul Tilbury, co-chair of the Vancouver Fireworks Festival Society, said last week.

Vancouver and transit police are also ready to deal with the crowds.

Vancouver police said crowd size fluctuates from night to night but the department has plans in

place to deal with up to half a million people. Last year, police were caught off guard by the number of people who came out for the final night.

“As a result this year we have adjusted our plans accordingly to make sure we’re able to have people enter and leave safely,” said Supt. Michelle Davies.

Transit police acting Chief Barry Kross encouraged people, especially those in a large group, to have a plan in place in case the group gets separated.

He also said officers will have zero tolerance for alcohol. Anyone caught with booze could be subject to a $230 fine.

Nicholas Mann with B.C. Ambulance said there will be additional paramedics on hand, with some on bikes and ATVs, which are “invaluable in large crowds,” he said.

In the event of an emergency during the event, Mann said it’s still best to call 911.

“Please be aware of your location,” he said, adding it helps to know street names or large landmarks nearby.

Once the show is over and the crowds have disbursed, “a small army” comes in to start cleaning

up, said Albert Shamess, Vancouver’s director of zero waste and resource recovery. He said the city has 200 extra garbage cans out for the event and encourages the public to use reusable containers as much as possible, and consider taking their garbage with them when they leave.

Before each show, a team of pyrotechnics professionals is working away on the barge, which is actually two barges joined stern to stern, getting ready for tomorrow’s show.

A crew of 10 from Sirius Pyrotechnics is working with the international teams of four to eight people to prepare for each show. The crews work 10-12 hour days for three days straight ahead of each night, said Kelly Guille, chief fireworks producer with Sirius.

“It’s just a big sandbox with a deeper sandbox at the end where we allow teams to decide how they want their mortars split up,” Guille said. “We have max angles but other than that they can choose if they want to criss-cross, they can choose how that’s set up.”

Come show time, just Guille and three others will be on the barge to fire the show from the safety of a bunker at the far end of the barge. It’s all controlled and pre-set by computer.

After each show, a crew comes in to clean up and prepare the barge for the next team.

And the whole process starts over again to get ready for the next show.

For more information about Celebration of Light, visit hondacelebrationoflight.com.

Dos and don’ts of celebration of light: • Don’t bring alcohol — $230 fine • Don’t smoke in parks or on beaches — $250 fine • If you do smoke, put it out properly — $500 fine • Don’t litter — dispose of garbage in the proper receptacle, or take it with you • Do be prepared — bring lots of water and food — you could be there longer than anticipated • Do be sun safe — wear sunscreen and a hat • Don’t bring or fly drones — it’s illegal over crowds • Don’t drive, if possible — take transit, walk or bike

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B.C. Lions games just got a little bit friendlier for people living with autism.

Pacific Autism Family Network has partnered with the CFL team to create the Gamechangers program to provide fans on the autism spectrum with a more comfortable experience.

The program gives PAFN families the opportunity to request tickets and be seated in a thoughtfully selected reserved area, as well as receive toolkits for each individual with autism, or a related disorder, attending.

The toolkit contains items to help make the game more user friendly and includes noise cancelling headphones, earplugs, sensory toys and a visual schedule for game day.

“There are so many families in B.C. who unfortunately cannot attend stadium events because it can be too overwhelming for our loved ones with au-

Pacific Autism Family Network has partnered with the B.C. Lions to create the Gamechangers program with the aim of providing fans on the autism spectrum with a more comfortable experience. Families that are part of the PAFN will have the opportunity to request tickets and be seated in a thoughtfully selected reserved area, as well as receive tool kits for each individual with autism, or a related disorder, attending.

tism or related disorders,” said PAFN co-founder, Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia.

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opportunity to attend as part of the Gamechangers program. Families will be sent their tickets in advance, along with instructions for arrival, and a separate visual schedule that supports the lead up to game day.

“As anyone in our organization will tell you, football is family,” said Lions vice-president of business George Chayka.

“We are both proud and honoured to have an opportunity to join with the Pacific Autism Family Network and bring the joy, excitement and fun of B.C. Lions football to those who would not normally find it possible to attend.

Our community is stronger when we go the extra yard to be inclusive and the Gamechangers program is a perfect example of what we can do together.”

The B.C. Lions’ next game is against the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Aug. 5, 4 p.m. at B.C. Place. @JessicaEKerr

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In true Vancouver fashion, all good things must come to an end with not one, but two condo towers.

The West End’s iconic Cloud 9 Revolving Restaurant and Empire Landmark Hotel at 1400 Robson St. is going to be torn down to make way for new condominiums with Sept. 30 marking the last day of operation for both businesses.

Sales manager Christina Ko has been hearing disappointment from several customers. “They’re very sad about this. A lot of them have memories in regards to a special day, whether it’s

anniversary, birthday or even proposals. We have lots of proposals up there,” she says.

Ko says the 42-storey skyscraper will come down, but she’s not sure how.

“They are planning on building two towers of condos. It’s coming down.

They’re not going to blow it up, because we have residential behind us... I would assume they would tear it down piece by piece.”

To commemorate the final days of the pre-Expo ’86 relic, the hotel has put together a special “grand finale” package, and the restaurant’s menus will have “quite a few items that are very exotic.”

Built in 1973, the Empire Landmark Hotel is the tall-

est standalone hotel tower in Metro Vancouver and views from the 42nd-floor revolving restaurant supposedly make their rivals pale in comparison.

“It is a special venue.

We do have the best view in town... no obstructions, there [are] no tall buildings close to us. It’s a beautiful sunset right now,” says Ko. The grand finale package starts at $399 per night, but Ko says there are other, less expensive ways to enjoy the view. The lounge, for example, is a popular place to enjoy a drink.

Vancouver’s other revolving restaurant, the Top of Vancouver at Harbour Centre (555 West Hastings St.) remains open.

Cheaper detached homes selling faster The median sale price of a single-family home within Vancouver’s city limits between July 17 to 23 was $1,635,000 — a fairly typical price that usually fluctuates week to week by a few hundred thousand dollars, depending on the sales that week.

However, the median listing price of a detached Vancouver home has consistently been in the $2.5-3 million range for a while now — standing at $2.9 million as of July 27.

So why this huge discrepancy? The answer could partly lie in the glut of high-end homes that are having trouble finding a buyer. As of July 27, 935 of the 1,551 currently listed Vancouver detached houses were priced at $2.5 million or above. Of those

935, 418 have spent 70 or more days on market.

Nearly 60 per cent of homes sold July 17 to 23 went for above their original sticker price — but this is vastly driven by condos, especially at the lower end of the market, as buyers desperately try to get into home ownership.

A Yaletown condo was the most expensive home to sell during that week — a stunning three-bedroom penthouse with luxury finishings that sold for $6,850,000, $148K under its most recent list price.

However, that asking $6,988,000 price represented the second price drop after a whopping 129 days on market, with the original $8.9 million price tag clearly missing the mark.

The priciest detached

home to trade in the same period was an elegant five-bedroom home in the Mackenzie Heights neighbourhood overlooking Balaclava Park. It sold for $3,480,000 — more than $300K under list price after 33 days on the market.

The relatively slow detached home sales means total active listings crept upwards last, as did the median days on market for that property type.

But the supply of condos available for sale is still not meeting even the relatively muted July demand, which is pushing sale prices way up over list. Out of the 36 downtown peninsula condos that traded during the past week, 25 sold for more than asking price, after a median seven days on market.

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