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12TH & CAMBIE Mike Howell

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I enjoy politics and have been known to get excited about an election campaign, some of the policy stuff and anytime there is a sizzler of an exchange between political foes.

But I’m quite confident I would never say this: “I’m really excited, actually — yes, I know it’s crazy to get excited about parliamentary procedure…”

NPA Coun. Sarah KirbyYung said that.

I’ll finish off her quote near the end of this piece, but first some insight into what excites her about parliamentary procedure.

Council unanimously approved March 13 a series of recommendations that aim to overhaul the public engagement side of things at city hall.

At first reading, it may seem like some inside baseball stuff, which is partly true.

But the biggest move in what is being called a trial or pilot project is that it aims to positively affect you

and me in terms of efficiency: speakers will now have a more definite time when they can take their turn at the microphone.

At least that’s the goal of the two-month experiment, which begins next month.

And that’s a big deal because right now it’s a gong show, said the city hall scribe, speaking from experience.

The current system has council meet on a Tuesday. This is called “regular council.” And if there is a report or a motion brought forward where a citizen has contacted city hall to register to speak to said report or motion, that item is then bumped to Wednesday’s “standing committee on city finance and services.”

Most speakers take this in stride. But when they show up on a Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. to speak, council has other reports and business on that committee agenda to work through before getting to what they call “unfinished business” from the previous day.

And if one or two of those reports eats up the morning, and council then breaks at lunch and meets in-camera until 3 p.m.,

Speakers at city council meetings can wait several hours, even days before they get a turn at the microphone. Council voted March 13 to attempt to change that. PHOTO MIKE HOWELL

those speakers who showed up at 9:30 a.m. would need to return at 3 p.m. But even then, council may not be finished with the items of the committee agenda.

Throw in a dinner break and a few recesses here and there and, well… gong show.

I’ve seen speakers wait all day and finally get a turn at the mic in the late evening.

I’ve also seen speakers give up and leave, leading some critics to say this is exactly what council intended, particularly during a controversial issue.

Others find out late in the day that council has decided to bump the report or motion to another week.

I’ve come up with a term for this: democracy by exhaustion.

Which also leads to journalism by exhaustion.

In today’s 24/7 world of feeding the digital beast with stories, most reporters don’t have time to stick around for two days and nights — either at city hall or watching via livestream — and chase one story.

Public hearings are a different story and, depending on the issue, can go on for several nights. That’s expected and not what we’re discussing here.

So what can we expect under what city staff is calling a “council meeting procedures pilot project”?

Here are the key changes you need to know: Citizens wanting to speak to a report or motion on a Tuesday will now get to speak on the same Tuesday, as this quote from a city staff report outlines: “The recommended pilot to hear speakers at regular council is intended to provide the public with greater certainty of when they will be heard, as they will be heard on the day for which the agenda item they wish to speak to is

listed [provided the council meeting lasts one day].”

Kirby-Yung also successfully added an amendment that will have any speakers bumped from Tuesday to be heard between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m. the following day.

The speaking time for citizens will be reduced from five minutes to three minutes.

That’s a bit of good news/ bad news.

The good news is that it will prevent the usual inarticulate suspects from droning on about an issue, often times unrelated to the subject. The bad news is some of the more articulate, interesting speakers will be cut short.

Council questions to speakers will also be reduced from five minutes to three minutes.

Apparently, a survey was done of 866 citizens between Dec. 14, 2017 and Jan. 31, 2018 with “many respondents in favour of limiting the type and number of questions asked by members of council.”

And, finally, city staff will work on releasing public agendas earlier.

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Currently, they go up on the city’s website Wednesday and Thursday for the following Tuesday and Wednesday meetings.

Staff has been advised by council and the public that this schedule does not provide ample time to review the reports on the agenda, the report said.

Now to finish off KirbyYung’s quote I began at the top of this piece...“but it will actually give us a chance to

make our lives better so we can spend less time on procedure and more time on the actual content of what it is we’re talking about.”

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Adriane Carr had this to say: “Our intent of this council is to really provide more certainty and clarity to members of the public who sign up to speak… and let’s hope this trial is one that works.”

The trial will run in April and May when council re-

convenes after spring break.

Reporter’s two cents: It would also be helpful to see motions and changes to them captured in the livestream.

Being able to view the livestream immediately after a council meeting finishes — like the Vancouver Police Board does — would also be great for those who can’t tune in live and may be at an ice rink, soccer field or in the grips of a man cold. @Howellings

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One commercial operator who had 35 short-term rental listings in two properties in the city has been fined $20,000 for one property and is going to trial for the second, while another two operators pleaded guilty in Provincial Court to violating the city’s new short-term rental regulations and were each fined $2,500.

On March 14, the City of Vancouver released the latest numbers since the new regulations went into effect Sept. 1, 2018. Chief licence inspector Kathryn Holm said since then the city’s enforcement team has opened more than 2,000 case files and taken enforcement action, including issuing warning letters, tickets and pursuing legal action, against 820 suspected unauthorized short-term rental properties.

As of March 6, a total of 274 tickets have been issued with $32,000 in fines collected, in addition to the $25,000 in fines awarded through court action. Operators are fined $1,000 per offence, however, that fine is lowered to $500 if paid within 10 days.

Other enforcement activity to date includes: • 520 licences flagged for investigations and audits • 309 warning letters written • 142 legal orders issued • 92 units identified for

Kathryn Holm, the City of Vancouver’s chief licence officer, speaks to the media Thursday, March 14. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

inspection • 89 listings referred to prosecution • 17 business licences suspended “We are pleased with the early results of our approach to regulating short-term rentals in Vancouver,” Holm said. “We will continue to identify and enforce against operators who knowingly evade our bylaws.”

In the last six months, the city has received 757 complaints from residents about suspected illegal short-term rentals.

“We thank the members of the public who continue to provide us with information about suspected illegal operators via our dedicated reporting channels, which are 311, VanConnect and our website,” Holm said.

The city stresses that it does not investigate or enforce based on information related to suspected illegal

listings posted to social media, and in order to start an investigation the team needs a complete address, including unit number, if applicable, as well as evidence of online marketing.

As of early March, there j were 4,720 active shortterm rental listings in the city, down from 6,600 when the regulations went into effect, and 2,628 business licences issued. In addressing the discrepancy between the number of listings and licences, Holm said some of those operators might not have renewed their 2018 business licence yet.

“We have been actively working with our licence holders from 2018 to ensure they understand the need to renew their business licence and they are doing so,” she said. “At this point, though, as of mid-March we will be pursuing enforcement against those who have not

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RCMP officer arrested after indecent acts near Vancouver school Jessica Kerr

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An off-duty RCMP officer was arrested by Vancouver police earlier this week after a series of alleged indecent acts near a West Side private school.

Vancouver police media relations officer Sgt. Jason Robillard said that the suspect was taken into custody

March 12 in connection with a number of indecent acts that took place near York House school, which is located in Vancouver’s Shaughnessy neighbourhood.

He has since been released with conditions.

“Criminal charges have not yet been laid,” Robillard said in an email. “The investigation is ongoing and no additional information can

be provided at this time.”

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However, the city has yet to be able to quantify how many former shortterm rental units have been returned to the long-term rental market.

“That’s a question that we are continuing to determine how to best answer,” Holm said. “That’s a question that cities around the world continue to struggle with how to best quantify, how many short-term rental units are being transformed into long-term rental supply. We are actively trying to develop a way to measure that.”

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thus far, to see how many operators in Vancouver are willing and able to comply with our bylaws.”

“The early results of enforcement is the first six months of our new shortterm rentals program are encouraging,” Mayor Kennedy Stewart said in a news release. “This program is one of many designed to move more supply into the longterm rental market because housing our city needs to be first and foremost for those who live and work in Vancouver.”

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yet renewed their licence.”

Adopted in November 2017, the city’s new shortterm rental regulations went into effect last April and new and existing hosts had until Aug. 31, 2018 to obtain a licence and comply with the regulations.

“We have seen an incredibly high uptake of licencing, both last year and ongoing into this year relative to what other cities around the world have seen,” Holm said. “That has been a very promising outcome of our program

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Thirteen of 63 rental units in a five-storey rental building proposed for 1805 Larch St. in Kitsilano are geared towards moderate income households.

The project, pitched by Jameson Developments and designed by Metric Architecture, is envisioned for the corner of Larch and West Second Avenue. It’s being considered under the city’s Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program (MIRHPP).

The pilot program, which is limited to 20 rezoning applications, is one of the Housing Vancouver strategies designed to create the “right supply” of housing to better match city workers’ incomes. Proposals under the MIRHPP must include a minimum of 20 per cent of the residential floor area permanently secured for moderate income households earning between $30,000 and $80,000 a year.

Jameson Development’s Larch Street rezoning application goes before an open house April 10.

A vacant ecclesiastical building from the 1970s is currently on the site, according to the application.

Forty-four per cent of the 63 units in the new rental building would be familysized (defined as two-bedrooms and above), including eight three-bedrooms.

The project would allocate 20 per cent to moderate incomes.

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The apartments would range in size from: • 385 to 437 square feet for a studio • 507 to 607 square feet for a one-bedroom • 663 to 762 square feet for a two-bedroom • 679 to 794 square feet for a two-bedroom with two bathrooms • 863 to 930 square feet for a three-bedroom Maximum average starting rental rents for the 13 moderate income units under the MIRHPP are $950 for a studio, $1,200 for a one-bedroom, $1,600 for a two-bedroom and $2,000 for a three-bedroom. Rent increases for those units are also capped at the B.C. Residential Tenancy Act annual increases regardless of turnover.

Of the 13 units designated for moderate income households, there would be: • 4 studios • 3 one-bedrooms • 1 two-bedroom • 3 two-bedrooms with two bathrooms • 2 three-bedrooms

Of the 50 units earmarked for market rental rates, there would be • 15 studios • 13 one-bedrooms • 3 two-bedrooms • 13 two-bedrooms plus two bathrooms • 6 three-bedrooms The building would also feature 56 underground parking spaces and 113 bicycle spaces.

Jameson Development has also submitted an expression of interest to build a 28-storey secured market rental building under the Moderate Income Rental Housing Pilot Program at the corner of Broadway and Birch Street. The developer currently has rezoning approval for a 16-storey rental building on that site. It held a pre-application open house for a building at the taller height late last year, but has not filed a formal rezoning application yet.

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• 28 two-bedrooms, averaging 711 square feet • 32 one-bedrooms, averaging 501 square feet • 33 studios, averaging 363 square feet.

Commercial space would be included at grade level.

Developer Rize Alliance and the firm Yamamoto Architecture are involved in the project.

The rezoning application, which goes before an open house April 2, states that increasing the supply of secured market rental units and increasing the supply of

A six-storey, mixed-use building is being considered for a site at 3429 to 3469 Fraser St. under the City of Vancouver’s Rental 100 program.

If the rezoning application is approved, the building would feature 104 secured market rental units, including: • five three-bedroom townhouse units, averaging 1,278 square feet • six three-bedroom apartments, averaging 873 square feet

or additional density based on the initial staff evaluation of the project, according to the City of Vancouver.

The open house for the rezoning proposal runs from 5 to 8 p.m. at Glad Tidings Church at 3456 Fraser St., April 2.

Once staff have completed a final review of the application, and all feedback has been looked at and considered, a report will be submitted to council with recommendations prior to a public hearing.

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Opinion

B.C.’s $4-billion poverty plan ‘money well spent’ Tracy Sherlock

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British Columbia has finally joined the rest of Canada by creating its own poverty reduction plan.

That’s a good thing because B.C. has one of the highest rates of poverty in the country, with more than 557,000 people living below the poverty line, including about 100,000 children.

Nearly half of those who live in poverty work, and children from single-parent families, Indigenous people, refugees and people with disabilities are much more likely to be poor.

The plan, released March 18 and called TogetherBC, doesn’t contain a lot that is new, but it brings together dozens of policy changes the NDP government has made since its 2017 election.

Together, those changes are expected to reduce overall poverty by one-quarter and cut child poverty in half in the next five years. That means 140,000 people, including 50,000 children, should no longer be living in poverty by 2024.

“It’s a strategy that at its heart is about people,” said Shane Simpson, minister of social development and poverty reduction. “It’s about the challenges they face every day just to get by.

It’s about the right of every British Columbian to be seen to be valued, to have access to opportunities for a better life for themselves and their families.”

Simpson recalled his own childhood, when his single mom raised him and his sister in the Raymur Housing Project, in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood.

He said she was fleeing family violence and was on welfare before getting a minimum-wage job.

Simpson estimates the poverty reduction strategy, including capital and operating costs, will total about $4 billion over the next several years.

Adrienne Montani, provincial coordinator at First Call, a B.C. organization that advocates for children and youth, said child poverty undermines children’s health, self-esteem and education.

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erty is toxic to both child and parent health, so it’s an urgent matter,” Montani said.

There are also economic reasons to reduce poverty, the plan says.

“When we increase incomes for people living in poverty, that money goes directly into the local economy,” it says. “Every dollar of support that goes to people in need gets spent on groceries, gas, clothing, goods and services. People spend their money where they live.”

The plan and related legislation that passed last fall require annual reporting on specific targets every year, starting on Oct. 1, 2020.

Sarah Brownlee, a member of the province’s poverty reduction advisory committee, which will monitor provincial progress, said she will make sure the voices of people who have lived in poverty are represented and heard.

“I have experienced poverty first-hand, I have seen my friends and family expe-

rience it and I have seen the destructive consequences of lack of opportunity and access,” Brownlee said.

Although the plan doesn’t break much new ground, it brings together policies already announced by the government, such as increasing minimum wage to $15.20 by 2021 and making childcare more affordable, which the government plans to spend $1 billion on between 2018 and 2021.

In this year’s budget, the government announced a new child tax credit, which boosts the money families with children get to a possible $1,600 per year, up to age 18. It also increased income and disability assistance rates by $50, bringing basic income assistance for a single, employable person up to $760 per month, still well below the poverty line.

The plan uses the Market Basket Measure, which is based on what it costs to buy the goods and services for a modest, basic standard of living, to count people living in poverty.

In B.C., the poverty line is about $20,000 a year for

singles and about $40,000 a year for a family of four, the plan says.

Simpson promises the plan will be dynamic and change over time. Those changes could include some initiatives on a basic income plan — a plan where all people would receive a minimum income, based on what it takes to live a basic life in B.C. An expert panel is exploring the idea, including looking at what may need to happen as artificial intelligence and automation grow and the jobs of today disappear, Simpson said. It is also reviewing B.C.’s existing income assistance programs.

Poverty costs all of us, every day. We see its effects in our schools, in our hospitals and on our streets as people struggle to get by. How poverty interacts with our justice and mental health systems is impossible to separate. Alleviating poverty benefits everyone — it’s money well spent.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues.

Contact her with comments and story tips at tracy.sherlock@gmail.com.

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Art school falls flat Re: “More art, less station,” letter, Feb. 21.

Oh, how I agree with Scott MacEachern’s recent letter! I won’t rehash all the details about our (the city’s) loss of so many fine art galleries. I am a visual artist myself and fully agree with everything he said. I had to laugh how he simply called the art school in “the flats” what it is instead their highfaluting and complicated name, and how he described that horrible building of the school (sorry, university), this eyesore fit perhaps for another branch for some high-tech company.

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Re: “Ditch the switch — it’s high time to stay on daylight savings,” March 6.

Let’s abolish this annual, ancient idea of moving clocks ahead then back again.

Half the population wants it and the other half doesn’t. When the majority of people cannot come to a conclusion, a compromise is in order. To satisfy both groups and all peoples, just move the clocks ahead only 30 minutes in March and leave it there forever. This idea does not disturb morning hours by much as well as evening hours either during the course of a year. It’s a compromise and it should work. No more springing ahead or falling back. Done!

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Date: Tuesday, April2,2019 Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm Place: Concourse, UBC Life Building, 6138 Student Union Blvd.

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Community COURAGE TO COME BACK

From trauma to recovery, Geri Bemister uses her life’s journey to teach others Michael Kissinger

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The windmill pitch is one of the more difficult movements in sport to pull off with any kind of effectiveness. To the untrained eye, the pitcher’s movements are fluid and fierce, masking the series of components that work in tandem with one another. If one part of the pitch’s mechanics is askew or neglected, it can throw everything else off.

It was a pitch Geri Bemister mastered as a teenager.

Growing up in Langford outside of Victoria, she practised windmill pitches with her father 100 times a day, every day. She was a star pitcher on her fastball team, which competed regularly in the provincial championships. She even trained with the national team.

Fastball was her sport among several she excelled at. It was also her refuge. It was where she could turn off her brain for a few hours and exist in the moment, away from racket, away from the anger, away from the trauma of being sexually abused from the age of five to 13 by trusted relatives.

“Softball gave me enough dopamine, enough stimuli, enough of a rush to kill the feelings,” says Bemister. “And I was good enough at it that I could be a star, which provided me with a sense of belonging.

It gave me what I didn’t form normally. With the abuse, it didn’t give me the ability to form healthy selfesteem, healthy trust in the world. Your decision gets a little skewed, and I think baseball was my attempt to normalize my life.”

But there was nothing normal about Bemister’s life. In addition to doing LSD every weekend, regularly smoking pot and drinking to excess, she lost touch with her old friends and found new ones who

Behavioural scientist, criminology professor, addictions counsellor and interventionist Geri Bemister is this year’s recipient of the Courage to Come Back Award in the Addictions category.

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shared her appetite for an array of drugs and increasing criminality.

“It seemed pretty normal at the time to engage in drugs and alcohol. There was a lot of parties. What wasn’t normal was I continued to use when everybody went to college and to work and starting having lives that didn’t look anything like mine.”

There were offers of scholarships that went away, opportunities “that never really turned into anything” because she was more interested in partying. At one point, Bemister recalls, she showed up at the ball field intoxicated before an important game. “It was dumb. I was going to tell everyone the big f-you and they were looking at me like I was crazy,” she says.

“That’s pretty much where everything went downhill.

My family had broken down by that time. I went off the rails pretty hard.”

For Bemister, going off the rails meant never being sober and seeking out social

circles that revolved around doing drugs, dealing drugs and committing crime.

“Anytime I met an adverse opinion about my lifestyle, that person would be cut out, and I would seek lower and lower kinds of companionship and circles.

I just wanted to revolve and live in places where my behaviour was acceptable.”

Things temporarily came to a crashing halt, literally, when Bemister, a pregnant girlfriend and “some loser with a record a mile long” robbed a drug store, stole a car and crashed into another vehicle when Bemister passed out at the wheel.

She was sent to the women’s unit of the notorious Oakalla Prison, and at 19 was the youngest female in a federal penitentiary at the time.

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By her early 30s, Bemister could no longer drink because her liver was shutting down. Cocaine abuse graduated to heroin addiction, and her weight withered to 97 pounds.

That’s when her mother and sister showed up at her home with a pen and paper.

They told her to write down the names of whom she wanted at her funeral. It caught her off guard, and something shifted.

“That was the real piece for me that led me to realize, ‘Oh my god, this is where my life is at and I don’t know how I got here.’ It was really that profound a statement that allowed some clarity to seep in when I was really mentally unwell.”

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“In the beginning of recovery, it was great. I was helping. I went back to school, I was doing great things with my life — life was getting good really quickly… But once that kind of levelled off, there was this other layer of stuff I had to deal with once I was becoming more educated about my illness, my trauma, and doing some of the work around my trauma.”

On top of that, Bemister was diagnosed with cancer while in treatment, and eventually had both her breasts removed. While she admits the loss challenged her sobriety, she remained motivated and continued to seek help and educate herself.

As part of her journey, Bemister began to reconnect with her First Nations heritage — something that was never part of her upbringing.

She researched and traced her ancestry to the Siksika Nation from the Blackfoot Confederacy and reached out to elders and people in ceremony who helped her reconnect with relatives.

“It wasn’t something people were proud of in my family. There wasn’t a lot of information. So it’s been a journey for me just to get connected and then start my own understanding of what our history is.”

She adds, “Living with a true understanding of spirituality as our First Nations people understand it is absolutely critical to where I’m at now and where I want to go with my life.”

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Although her life experience gives Bemister a unique and informed perspective that she shares freely with her students, colleagues and clients, she says she’s still learning to get comfortable with the next stage of her life, particularly as she receives the Courage To Come Back Award in the Addictions category, April 24 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

“It’s hard,” she says. “It’s super meaningful, but it’s definitely hard to take on that responsibility… It’s like being a teacher — it’s not about me. It’s about something bigger.”

Despite her new role, she says what motivates her remains the same — being the person she never had in her own life.

“Getting vulnerable and telling my story publicly, and sharing with my students and clients, and doing the things that I do, I think it’s so more people can feel the way I feel today,” she says. “I’m not living in my trauma. I’m not living in my addiction. I’m not living in pain. I’m not a victim today.”

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Flats Arterial Community Panel Public Hearing April 2, 2019 Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

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Public Hearing: April 4, 2019 Thursday, April 4, 2019, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations:

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations:

1. CD-1 Text Amendment: 6 West 17th Avenue (Turner Dairy) To amend CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District (721) for 6 West 17th Avenue (Turner Dairy) to allow Multiple Conversion Dwelling and Infill One-Family Dwelling uses that were inadvertently omitted at the time of the original rezoning.

A.Rezoning: 76-96 West King Edward Avenue To rezone 76-96 West King Edward Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8AN (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

2. Text Amendments: CD-1 (684) at 1837-1937 Main Street, 170-180 East 2nd Avenue and 177-196 East 3rd Avenue, and CD-1 (551) at 1265-1299 Howe Street and 835 Drake Street To amend CD-1 (684) at 1837-1937 Main Street, 170-180 East 2nd Avenue and 177-196 East 3rd Avenue and at CD-1 (551) at 1265-1299 Howe Street and 835 Drake Street to add “Arts and Culture Indoor Event” as a permitted use in each.

Approval of these amendments would allow for events of an artistic or cultural nature to be held within the cultural amenity spaces located on these sites. No change to floor area, density, or form of development of the existing buildings is proposed.

3. Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law to Revise Design Regulations for ‘Outright’ Two-Family Dwellings (duplexes) To amend design regulations for duplexes allowed as an outright use in select RM, RT and RS zones.

The proposed changes would encourage improved design outcomes and enhanced livability, as well as greater flexibility for innovative designs to achieve objectives such as tree retention and improved accessibility, or to accommodate near zeroemissions buildings, such as Passive House.

4. CD-1 Rezoning: 2715 West 12th Avenue To rezone 2715 West 12th Avenue from RS-7 (One-Family Dwelling) District to a CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of two 3.5-storey residential stacked townhouse buildings with 14 for-profit affordable rental housing units. A height of 12.2 metres (40 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.42 are proposed. This proposal is being considered under the Affordable Housing Choices Interim Rezoning Policy (AHC policy).

5. CD-1 Rezoning: 1303 Kingsway and 3728 Clark Drive To rezone 1303 Kingsway and 3728 Clark Drive from C-2 (Commercial) District to a CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey, mixed-use building with commercial uses at grade, and 54 secured for-profit affordable rental housing units. A height of 22.0 metres (72.3 feet) and an FSR of 3.69 are proposed.

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B. Rezoning: 976 West 52nd Avenue and 6822-6868 Oak Street To rezone 976 West 52nd Avenue and 6822-6868 Oak Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8AN (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

C. Rezoning: 628-682 West 28th Avenue and 4435 Ash Street To rezone 628-682 West 28th Avenue and 4435 Ash Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8A (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

D. Rezoning: 6250-6410 Oak Street To rezone 6250-6410 Oak Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to RM-8AN (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) up to 1.2. The form of development will be reviewed through a subsequent development permit process.

E. Rezoning: 6808-6968 Ash Street and 575 West 54th Avenue This item has been withdrawn.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing.

Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on March 22 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing.

You may submit your comments by email to publichearing@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4.

All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting March 22 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/ councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings

Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 7 - 9 pm Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre 1607 East Hastings Street You’ll have the chance to contribute to the panel’s assessment of the False Creek Flats arterial options, and: • Hear about the panelists’ work so far • Provide your input on the proposed arterial route options • Participate in table discussions • Meet with other community members Results of this workshop will inform the panel’s analysis of all the arterial options, and contribute to their final route recommendation.

Seating is limited, and requires advance sign up.

Sign up and learn more about the Flats Arterial Community Panel: fcfcommunitypanel.com or 778-381-9121 Participate online until April 3 at 12 noon: fcfcommunitypanel.com/give-inpaut

Volunteers Needed for Vancouver’s Civic Advisory Bodies The City of Vancouver is seeking volunteers from the general public for positions on these advisory bodies: • • • • • •

Arts and Culture Advisory Committee Children, Youth and Families Advisory Committee Civic Asset Naming Committee LGBTQ2+ Advisory Committee Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee Racial and Ethno-Cultural Equity Advisory Committee • Renters Advisory Committee • Seniors’ Advisory Committee • Transportation Advisory Committee • Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Advisory Committee • Vancouver Food Policy Council • Women’s Advisory Committee • Chinatown Historic Area Planning Committee • First Shaughnessy Advisory Design Panel • Gastown Historic Area Planning Committee Detailed descriptions of the terms of reference, eligibility requirements, and time commitment, as well as the online application and instructions are available at vancouver.ca/volunteer You must complete an online application form to apply. The deadline to submit an application is 11:59 pm, April 12, 2019.

We encourage applicants of all ages, abilities, genders, racial origins, sexual orientation, gender identity, income levels and other lived experiences to volunteer to help shape City policy and services to better serve everyone in our community.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: civicagenciesinfo@vancouver.ca or phone 3-1-1

Development Permit Board Meeting: April 1 The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Monday, April 1, 2019 at 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider this permit application: 4464 Dunbar Street: To develop a five-storey, mixed-use building containing retail (first floor), and residential (second to fifth floor), all over two levels of underground parking with vehicle access from the lane all in C-2 Zoning.

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Readers react with reefer madness over 4/20 column Grant Lawrence

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I thought pot was supposed to mellow you out.

I guess not, if the billowing clouds of reactionary rage to my column from last week are any indication.

In case you missed it, I called out the annual 4/20 pot “protest” (festival) as being annoying, illegal, and ultimately irrelevant, since the legalization of cannabis in 2018.

My blunt point: you won, it’s legal, go home. And stop polluting Sunset Beach Park.

Many people from both sides of the marijuana patch angrily exhaled all over social media.

Here’s what some of you had to say: “More snivelling and whining from a typical Vancouver elitist, or someone who thinks they are. Put on your big girl panties and help promote something that makes Vancouver awesome instead of whining about permits.” – Shawn Golley “So inaccurate! It is still

a protest against the unfair and capitalist-driven cannabis policy in Canada. 4/20 protest until shit’s fair!” – Liv Maxwell “There are thousands of people that are now completely unable to access the medicine they need because the prices and quality are unreasonable and inaccessible. And there is no legal place to consume the plant we so desperately fought to ‘free.’ We aren’t allowed to grow it unless it’s hidden away from anyone’s sight.

We aren’t allowed to use, create, carry, sell, or share many of the products that have the highest therapeutic value.” – Krista Sidloski “Cannabis has been illegal for decades and still is.

The law isn’t perfect and it’s our job as citizens to protest until we find a solution for EVERYONE and not just the rich/big companies.

What a piece of shit of an article.” – Paulo Ferraz 4/20 organizer Dana Larsen pointed out what he considered to be several

Readers from both sides of the marijuana patch angrily exhaled all over social media after Grant Lawrence’s last column calling 4/20 “annoying, illegal, and ultimately irrelevant.”

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errors in my column, one of which was legitimate.

Based on previous media reports, I wrote that Sunset Beach Park was closed for 10 weeks in the aftermath of last year’s 4/20.

Larsen correctly noted that the ten-week figure was an estimate and that the actual closure was four weeks. Which still seems like a really long time.

News 1130 reported that in 2017, 4/20’s damage

to the lawn was billed at $34,630, “of which just $6,990 was reimbursed by the 4/20 organizers.”

Larsen, who has referred to 4/20 as a “Protestival,” also commented that the park’s closure wasn’t that big of a deal, because “Sunset Beach Park is not very busy in May. It rarely has more than 2-3 people in it at a time.”

He also informed me that 4/20 donated $8,400 to local

charities in 2018.

But, lo and behold, some of you actually rolled with my opinion:

after that a campfire burning contest. Just because you can do it doesn’t mean you should.” – Matt Lawson

“Couldn’t agree more with this article. Protesting for legalization is pointless now. If they want to hold a festival, they should organize it with proper permits and be respectful of the public space.” – Mathew Thomas.

“Glad it’s legalized but the festival (it is what it is) should be held legally with money ponied up to cover the costs of policing. Because it is NOT a protest anymore.” – Leslie Macfarlane

“The 4/20 Day is just for young adults so they can trash a beautiful spot in Vancouver and get high in public. They don’t care about the message. All they care about is cheap, available weed.” – Joseph Sloan

“I live in the West End and the mess that was left in the neighbourhood was crazy. Garbage everywhere and no one cleaned it up.

Also the amount of cars illegally parked was out of control.” – Rob. B.

“This ad-hoc event has never proven itself in terms of organization, safety or clean up. It’s pretty much a gong show (bong show?) that costs the city a butt load of money every year in the form of emergency services and clean up.” – Jennifer Moss

This year’s 4/20 hops onto the Saturday of Easter weekend, and Larsen expects the upward of 100,000 stoners in attendance, sparking major doobage.

Based on the ganja gorge dividing those for and against this puffed out event, maybe we should all just follow this guy’s lead:

“After the 4/20 festival maybe there should be a cigar smoking festival. And

“When is Quaalude Day is what I want to know.” – Jon Shanahan

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Mayko Nguyen likes one of her Hudson & Rex costars more than the others.

That alone isn’t so unusual. Actors are human beings; not all human beings get along with each other in the same way. But what is unusual is admitting that you prefer one of your co-stars to a journalist during an interview.

And the Vancouver actress is clear, and adamantly so: Diesel vom Burgimwald is her favourite co-worker, full stop.

This becomes less of a scandalous scoop and more of an adorable anecdote when you learn that vom Burgimwald is a two-yearold German shepherd who plays the titular Rex in Hudson & Rex, Citytv’s canine cop procedural that premieres on March 25.

“He’s a very special dog,” says Nguyen of vom Burgimwald. “He’s got this beautiful temperament.

He’s a puppy, but he’s so — I want to say professional.

It’s funny to apply that word to a dog, but he does have this professional air to him. Sometimes I forget that he’s a dog because he’s just one of us.”

It’s mid-February and Nguyen is calling in from St. John’s, Nfld., where she’s been filming Hudson & Rex’s 16-episode first season since October.

Hudson & Rex stars sometimes-Vancouverite John Reardon (Arctic Air) as Charlie Hudson, a St. John’s detective who partners with Rex when the dog’s original partner is killed. Hudson recognizes that Rex has a very particular set of skills — namely, he can sniff out details that are usually overlooked by human detectives — and together they solve all manner of crimes, with help from colleagues like Nguyen’s character, Dr. Sarah Truong.

Dr. Truong is head of forensics. “I’m a doctor, but what is really great on this show is I’m not stuck in a lab,” says Nguyen. “I’m on the scene a lot. I take an active role.”

Vancouver’s Mayko Nguyen’s new show Hudson & Rex, which is set in St. John’s, Nfld., premiers on Citytv March 25.

Dr. Truong and Nguyen have a fair bit in common.

Until recently, they’ve both been based in Toronto, and they’re both experiencing something of a culture shock in St. John’s. “It’s so cold here, and also really wet,” she laughs. “There’s no getting away from it. The wind

is out of control. But it’s also majestic out here and quite beautiful.” She’s full of love for the people of Newfoundland, who she describes as “storytellers, with a sharp, caustic wit.”

Nguyen was born and raised in Vancouver and attended Eric Hamber sec-

ondary school. She was in Grade 11 when she caught the acting bug during a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

“I don’t think prior to that I wanted to be an actor, but definitely that experience got me and I couldn’t imagine doing anything else,” says Nguyen.

Alas, when Nguyen told her father that she was intent on being an actor, he wasn’t too impressed.

“I come from a Vietnamese family and my dad, back then at least, would have preferred if I had been a doctor or a lawyer,” she says. “He was not into it at all. I think it just got to be that thing where he didn’t really have a choice. I clearly was not going to go to law school, but I’ve played a lawyer and I’ve played a doctor, so there you go, Dad!” Nguyen’s lengthy list of credits includes fan favourite roles on Rookie Blue, But I’m Chris Jericho!, Cracked, ReGenesis and SyFy’s Killjoys. On Killjoys, Nguyen plays ruthless politician Delle Seyah Kendry, and

she describes her as “not a character that I typically play. She’s not something that I think of myself as being close to in terms of character, and so there is something now where I’m like, ‘Oh, I think I need to investigate those kinds of roles a bit more because there was something there that caught me off guard.’”

Hudson & Rex represents a couple of firsts for Nguyen: her first time working with a dog and her first time relocating for work. “We had a shoot on a boat and I threw up when we were done,” she says.

“I’d never experienced the North Atlantic in that way and so much of the show is about being in St. John’s, and I think you’ll get that from the show. I’ve not met this landscape before.

It’s a beautiful place and so unique in Canada.”

Hudson & Rex premieres March 25 at 8 p.m. on Citytv. https://www.citytv. com/toronto/shows/ hudson-rex/

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Daphne Roubini’s career doesn’t make much sense.

Her resume includes stints as a masseuse, aroma therapist, jazz singer and a personal coach.

Now, Roubini’s go-to gig is running what’s billed as the largest ukulele school — Ruby’s Ukes — outside of Hawaii, and she does it without a single cent spent on advertising.

Somewhere in the midst of all those moving parts, Roubini is heading up the 10th incarnation of the Vancouver Ukulele Festival, March 22 to 24.

That such a niche celebration is growing, much less still exists, after a decade underscores the plucky Brit’s sense of self belief, which was on full display during the Courier’s recent visit to her downtown school.

“When I like something, when I’m into something, there’s usually some people coming up behind with me,” is how Roubini explains her success.

Established on Seymour Street in 2009, Ruby’s Ukes has followed the build-it-and-they-will come ethos. Prior to launching, Roubini’s marketing strategy included putting up 100 posters in local cafes and not much else.

That first class included 12 people and one other instructor. Now, Roubini and her husband, Andrew Smith, run three separate intakes of 350 students, employ four instructors and an assistant, all the while being able to afford rent in downtown Vancouver.

Daphne Roubini is the founder of Ruby’s Ukes and head honcho behind the Vancouver Ukulele Festival, which celebrates its 10th anniversary March 22 to 24 at the Croatian Cultural Centre. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“The ukulele’s popularity has come from its lack of expectation,” Roubini says. “People pick it up and they have a sense of fun with it, so that they’re able to move away any kind of judgment or self- expectation.”

The growth seen at Roubini’s bricks and mortar location has been mirrored over the course of the festival’s decade-long history. The first incarnation was held at Roubini’s shop and had 65 attendees, before moving to St. James Community Hall — capacity 200-plus — in Kitsilano. The festival has since outgrown the Rio Theatre and will be spread across display and

performance spaces at the Croatian Cultural Centre.

Roubini has also attracted A-list performers and clinicians, including Grammy winner Daniel Ho, pop songstress Victoria Vox and, believe it or not, former Seinfeld actor Heidi Swenberg, who played George Costanza’s ill-fated fiancé who died from licking toxic wedding invitations.

Roubini suggests the ukulele world is small enough and insular to the point that reaching out to the who’s who of the four-stringed world makes attracting big names pretty easy.

But that doesn’t explain the popularity of the instrument itself. To that point, size and cost are major pluses — a low-end ukulele costs $45 and can easily fit on public transit, or on your back as you cruise through town on your fixed gear bike.

Efficiencies aside, Roubini also maintains the learning curve isn’t especially steep. By the end of lesson one, would-be ukuleleists have the necessary tools to learn three chords and 200 songs —including “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones.

“By week seven of my absolute beginner’s class, that means people who have never touched a ukulele before, they are playing a Beethoven piece called ‘Ode to Joy,’” Roubini said.

The Vancouver Ukulele festival runs March 22 to 24 at the Croatian Cultural Centre. Tickets are available online at rubysukes.ca/vancouverukulele-festival.

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Four reasons to watch the rest of the 2018-19 Canucks season Backhand Sauce Daniel Wagner

It’s time to face facts: the Canucks are not going to make the playoffs.

To be honest, it was time to face that particular fact quite a while ago. A combination of injuries, cold streaks and the Canucks not being that good to begin with finally took its toll and drove the Canucks down the standings. Injuries are still an issue: Antoine Roussel, Brandon Sutter and Chris Tanev are all confirmed as done for the season, Sven Baertschi probably should be shut down for the season with post-concussion syndrome and Ben Hutton has no timetable to return from his foot injury.

Heading into Wednesday’s game against the Ottawa Senators, the Canucks were six points out of the playoffs, and they need to pass four teams to get into the final wild card spot. It’s not looking good.

With that in mind, you might be wondering why you should bother watching the eight games remaining in the Canucks season. It’s a fair question. I’m not going to hate on bandwagon fans, because it is admittedly far more fun to cheer for a team that’s winning, and there are lots of fun things to do in Vancouver, particularly with the beautiful weather we’ve been having lately.

That said, I would be remiss if I didn’t point out some very good reasons to keep watching.

it’s not hard to see why: he’s run away with the rookie scoring race and rescued the Canucks’ season from unwatchability.

Jordan Binnington has been outstanding for the St. Louis Blues and Rasmus Dahlin smashed the record for most points by an 18-year-old defenceman, but Pettersson still has the inside edge for the Calder. Pettersson has entertained Canucks fans all season long and watching him close out a Calder campaign is worth the price of admission.

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The Canucks signed their top prospect, Quinn Hughes, over a week ago but, in classic Canucks fashion, he’s injured. A shot that he blocked in the penultimate game of his NCAA career caused a deep bone bruise on his ankle and he’s been seen in a walking boot instead of in his skates on the ice.

That said, Hughes should be able to make his Canucks debut as early as next week and it should be a sight to see. Hughes is an elite skater that could revolutionize the Canucks’ breakouts and provide a serious boost on the power play. Hughes’ debut should be a can’t-miss event.

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Elias Pettersson’s run at this year’s rookie of the year title is just one reason to keep watching the Canucks as the 2018-19 season winds down.

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The Canucks are extremely unlikely to make the playoffs, but a recent point streak has also pulled them out of the NHL basement. As a result, they’re entering what Patrick Johnston of the Province has called the “Realm of Sadness.” It’s the area where not only are you missing the playoffs, but you’re also missing out on the best prospects at the top of the NHL draft.

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Flat tires are just the tip of the damage that can be caused by potholes COURIER STAFF With the end of winter finally in sight and plans for spring road trips well underway, one thing is top of mind for many drivers — potholes.

And when you can’t avoid them, those familiar cracks and dents in the road can cause costly repairs.

Suspension systems, impacted ride control and flat tires are some of the issues you may come across when you hit a pothole.

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