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Is your house on one of Vancouver’s 730 ‘sensitive’ archeological sites? Mike Howell
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The things you learn when you read deep into a lengthy city staff report about the city’s reconciliation efforts with First Nations: Did you know there are 730 so-called “sensitive sites” on public and private property in Vancouver? Yes, 730. Where are they located? Why are they sensitive? How many are on private property? Questions I will try to answer in a few paragraphs. First, here’s the part of the staff report that went to council last week and prompted me to ask further questions: “In late 2017, the Development, Buildings and Licensing department inserted archeological warning flags in the city’s permitting system [POSSE] for 730 sites. “Since then, approximately 100 staff who are involved in permitting have been trained on how to use the archeological layer in POSSE in order to identify sensitive sites and take appropriate action before issuing ground disturbing permits.”
Private property owners might want to paste the next two sentences to their fridge… “In March 2018, a further enhancement was made to POSSE to alert staff for sensitive property parcels on private property. This alert triggers either a compulsory archeological review or a checklist at specific project milestones to ensure required actions are completed.” I wanted to find out more, specifically where the sites are located and how many were on private property. So I emailed the city’s communications department. Their response, in part: “The sites noted in the report and indicated as ‘warning flags’ are based on information from the B.C. Archaeology Branch as those which could be of potential archeological significance. The city receives this site information directly from the province. “Under the B.C. Heritage Conservation Act, any contractor that discovers something that could be of archeological significance on one of these sites must stop digging and report it immediately.”
The Musqueam Indian Band successfully protested in 2012 the construction of a 108-unit condominium complex on private land where human remains of the band’s ancestors were discovered. FILE PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
The city didn’t provide me with the location of the sites, or say how many were on private property, or public property for that matter; you’ve got to think Stanley Park is one of the sites. I was told to contact the Archaeology Branch to get more information. I did that via email to the director and have yet to hear back. So I made a few phone calls and got hold of Vivian Thomas, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Contracts.
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Like the city, Thomas couldn’t reveal where the sites are and how many are on private property, which would include houses and businesses. Why? I’m paraphrasing, but she said disclosing that information to the general public might cause some treasure hunters to conduct their own archeological dig, or vandalize a site. “Looting” is the term Thomas used. Such information is only available on a “need to know basis” to local governments, private property owners, real-
tors and First Nations, said Thomas, whose definition of a sensitive site included an ancient midden or burial site. Generally, she added, the majority of the sites are related to First Nations. That applies to an estimated 50,000 sites across the province. Asked whether a prospective home buyer in Vancouver would know whether the property is considered a sensitive site, Thomas replied: “If you have a good realtor, you should,” she said, but couldn’t answer whether all realtors seek out that information. After I spoke to Thomas, I received an email from one of her colleagues at the ministry with more information that a private property owner might also want to paste to the fridge. From public affairs officer Dawn Makarowski: “Previously unrecorded archeological sites are also protected under the Heritage Conservation Act, so Vancouver residents should be aware that even though they may not have received notice of the presence of archeological sites, it may reflect the lack of
studies in the area, rather than the lack of protected archeological resources.” In pursuing this topic, I was reminded of the controversy that erupted in 2012 when archeologists discovered intact remains of humans on private property in Marpole believed to be ancestors of the Musqueam Indian Band. Century Group HQ Developments Ltd. and property owners Gary and Fran Hackett planned to build a 108-unit condominium complex on the acre-sized property near the former Fraser Arms hotel until the Musqueam and provincial government intervened. The response from the provincial government at the time was that it recognizes and respects private property rights and also recognizes the need to protect First Nations heritage resources. A financial deal was struck with the Hacketts and the property was returned to the Musqueam, which continues to work on plans to preserve the property that was once home to one of its ancient villages. A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com.
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Gulzar Nanda and his mother could have moved the family-run jewellery shop from Main Street to Surrey like many other businesses in the Punjabi Market have done over the years. But Nanda, 29, wants to keep Hi-Class Jewellers on the same strip on which his father and grandfather started the business 35 years ago after arriving from India. His father, Mrignesh, died two years ago. “My dad spent so much time there — more than 30 years — and I didn’t want the market and his legacy to die,” he said, noting he and his mother almost moved the business to Surrey around the time of his father’s death. “So that’s why I’ve stayed. It’s for the community, but it’s also a way for me to connect with my past, with my history.” Nanda was one of several speakers at a June 27 news conference outside city hall, where business and community leaders from the South Asian community gathered to
celebrate a recent commitment from city council. That commitment, which came via a successful motion from Green Party Coun. Pete Fry, was to first recognize the historic significance of the market and present day importance to Vancouver. The motion also directs city staff to review all work to date on plans to revitalize the threeblock commercial district along Main Street, between East 48th and 51st avenues. The city’s engineering, planning and arts and culture and community services departments are now tasked with working on what Fry described as “quick wins” that include public realm improvements. The Punjabi Market, also known as Little India, will celebrate its 50th anniversary next May. But that celebration will be tempered by the current struggle to keep businesses from closing or moving, and customers from dwindling. The once thriving centre for South Asian culture and commerce, which reached its peak in the 1990s, has seen businesses close or move, with Surrey being a
Gulzar Nanda of Hi-Class Jewellers spoke at a news conference June 27 outside city hall about the need to revitalize the Punjabi Market. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
popular destination. Heritage Vancouver Society placed the Punjabi Market as one of the top 10 areas or buildings on its 2019 watch list. The market is ranked fifth, with concerns its rich history could be lost under increased development pressures. A new building at East 49th and Main is now home to a Freshii, a Tim Hortons and a Royal Bank branch. Across the street is a former gas station owned by Imperial Oil. Frontier Cloth House, Guru Bazaar Sarees and
Fabrics and Sunny’s Bridal Gallery are some of the shops to move across the Fraser River to Surrey. Ironically, Nanda pointed out, rents were higher in the 1990s in the Punjabi Market than they are now. A 1,000 sq. foot space could cost $5,000 to $10,000 per month to rent, he said. Today, he knows of an 800 sq. foot space in the market that is being rented for under $2,000 a month. He cited several reasons for that, including lower assessment values, vacancies and
fewer customers in 2019. A comparable place in Surrey would be more than $2,500, he said, and likely require the tenant to enter into a triple-net lease, which means paying for property tax, the lease and maintenance. “The really high traffic areas [in Surrey] are even more expensive than that,” said Nanda, noting lower rents in the Punjabi Market have attracted some smaller businesses on short-term leases. “There’s still some vacancies, and we want to be able to work with our partners to increase the use of a small amount of space, and I believe that the City of Vancouver and their city-wide [planning] process is going to include a growth idea for the Punjabi Market.” Nanda said he recognized governments are limited in what they can do to revitalize an area, but is counting on Fry and council and the provincial and federal governments to work with businesses to keep the market alive. NPA Coun. Sarah KirbyYung, who attended the news conference, pointed to council’s recent decision to give businesses a two per
cent tax break as an indication the city is working on retaining businesses in Vancouver. “That’s not the silver bullet, and we need to do a lot more,” said Kirby-Yung, noting she wants the city to explore whether it has land in the area of the market where it can support new businesses. Nanda said incorporating co-use work spaces is another idea worth exploring to save costs among businesses. Other speakers stressed the need to better market and revive a business strip that is in the heart of a large South Asian neighbourhood. “For those who have lived and worked in the area for over the last 50 years, [they] believe the city overlooked the area and made it less attractive to stay in,” said Ajay Puri, a community organizer and consultant, who served as master of ceremonies at the news conference. He added, “We hope that the Punjabi Market isn’t a museum, filled with artifacts and the past, but an area that is thriving, bustling and inclusive for all to enjoy,” A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com.
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The property owners behind the failed rezoning application for a townhouse development at 4575 Granville St. now plan to build a large
home after council voted 7-4 against their proposal. The Vancouver Hospice Society opposed the rezoning application. Its facility at 4615 Granville St. is next door to the site. Designed by Stuart Howard Architects, the development would have featured two buildings — a two-anda-half storey one and another that was three-and-a-half storeys. Considered under the city’s Affordable Hous-
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Yeah, we actually purchased it to build a house. They already made all the drawings before. It was a large house. I talked them out of it. As soon as I saw this [Affordable Housing Choices and Interim Rezoning] policy, I told them it’d probably be better for them to just make rentals and actually live in one of the townhomes in the back. They agreed to it, and it’s been a long process. Now, they’re kind of confused because their original plan was to build a house.
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I thought we followed all the rules. Clearly, the hospice has stated over and over again that they want to purchase the land and build on it themselves. So I don’t understand how that works. They’re stating that they have issues with construction and there’s still going to be construction there. Do you think that was a conflict with the hospice stating they want to buy the land while opposing your project?
Yeah, exactly. They clearly stated that during the public hearings.
Nonetheless, were you surprised by the decision? Did you have hope that it would be approved or what were you thinking that night?
We did [think it would be approved] because we followed everything that staff told us to do. We never asked any questions. We just said, OK. We agreed to ev-
erything they said. We didn’t oppose anything. Anything they asked us to do, we did. When it became clear the councillors were voting against the application, or at least the majority were, what were you thinking?
I’ve talked to my parents about it, and now they’ve told the architect to go ahead with a 12,000-squarefoot house. Like I was saying earlier, we bought this land to build a house to live. The plan was to just make some rentals and live in the house as well. So if we’re not going to get the rentals, there’s no point. We might as well just build the house. Some councillors suggested they’d like to see a revamped proposal. Is that something you’d be willing to do at this point?
We would, but I don’t want to take the risk again. We’ve already been living in the house since 2011. What’s the point of me going again and waiting and then something else gets changed. That’s just going take longer for us to build a house if we need to build a house. If it’s possible, that’s something we were willing to look out, but I don’t want to do this thing all over again because it costs a lot of money. I think the city fee alone was over $50,000. Do you know how much you spent in total on the whole process?
I’m not 100 per cent sure, but I don’t want to really say how much it was. I’d have to double check that. I know the city fee was $50,000, roughly. Would you consider at all selling the property to the hospice or is that a no-go?
That’s a no-go.
Could you have done the project as a two-storey development? Was that ever a consideration and do you think that would have satisfied the hospice?
With this policy, we were allowed to build a fourstorey apartment building. We decided not to do that because one of [the hospice’s] concerns was they didn’t want to lose their view where the eating area is. So then we split up the building into two separate buildings. Another reason we did that was because, looking around, there were no stacked townhouses for rent and we thought it’d be a better project because they’re harder to find — family townhomes.
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plan to build a house One of the reasons some councillors voted against the application was because they said units wouldn’t be affordable. What’s your reaction to that?
We used the rental rates set out by the city for our pro forma. So it’s the city that set the DCL [development cost levy] waiver rates, and that’s what we used. The reason we didn’t take the DCL waiver is because, [for] townhomes, I think they had a cap of unit sizes. They had to be about 1,000 square feet. I don’t think a 1,000 square foot townhouse would be livable. You need at least 11, 12, 1,300 square feet. So we didn’t get the waiver but we did use those rents. So those rents were set out by the City of Vancouver. We did this project because we were going to live there. They’re not luxury rentals. It’s West Side rents the city set out.
Neighbourhood fit was another reason some councillors opposed the application. What’s your reaction to that and why do you think it was an appropriate fit for the neighbourhood?
If you look at all the letters and all the opposition, it was basically just the hospice [against it]. That counts as one neighbour, right? The neighbour to the north of the property, they’re OK with the development and the neighbour
across the street is OK with the development. I’ve walked around the neighbourhood and talked to neighbours and everybody said they don’t care. So I believe this is mostly the hospice and all the hospice volunteers [against it]. Do you think the project would have worked with the hospice next to it?
I think it would. If they’re saying that they want to build housing next door, senior housing, I’m not sure what the difference would be with rental housing. Aside from saying the units wouldn’t be affordable, Coun. Jean Swanson’s other criticism included that you would get a huge increase in the value of the property if it was upzoned, and you weren’t contributing enough in terms of community amenity contributions. What’s your reaction to Swanson’s criticism?
Like I said before, we’re not building this and selling it. We’re living there. You know the property value, it’s pretty high right now, too. How much more could it possibly go up? Plus, we weren’t taking the DCL waiver. I think the permit fees were over $300,000 and they were asking us to update the sewer in the area, which was another three or $400,000. So I think we were contributing.
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I don’t think anybody is going to be buying any property on Granville to rezone anymore because it’s a long process and you’re not guaranteed. It’s a lot of time and money. I’ve been reading the newspapers and it seems like a lot of developers are getting scared.
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No, I don’t think I want to say anything to them. I think it’s clear [that] a lot of people are upset about this because I been reading it in the papers.
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How do your parents feel about the whole thing?
They haven’t really said much. They just told me to tell the architect to start doing the drawings for the house. I guess we’ll see what happens. I haven’t talked to the architect. I talked to him yesterday, so we’ll see what he says. He doesn’t want to give up on it yet, but I just don’t want to go through the process again. This interview has been condensed and edited for length and clarity.
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Sara Bergen gives hope to weekend road warriors everywhere. The 30-year-old Coquitlam native has become one of Canada’s most accomplished bike racers because, six years ago, she wanted to ride in the Whistler Gran Fondo. Bergen finished fourth amongst all the female riders in the 120-km event that is geared more for recreational cyclists than racers. Last year, she won the Canadian criterium championships, then quickly followed that up with a win in the women’s event at the New West Grand Prix and second place finishes in the Gastown Grand Prix and PoCo Grand Prix. All the races are part of the B.C. Superweek series of nine races that will run across the Lower Mainland from July 5 to 14. Bergen didn’t set out to become a professional bike racer. She was commuting on a mountain bike from her family’s home near Coquitlam’s Mundy Park to architecture school at
Sara Bergen, left, discusses race strategy with one of her Rally/UHC teammates prior to the start of last year’s New West Grand Prix. PHOTO MARIO BARTEL
BCIT in Burnaby when, she said, her competitive nature led her to set personal challenges to ride faster than the other bike commuters on her daily route. She even pumped her bike’s heavy knobby tires to their maximum capacity so they’d roll easier and quicker on pavement. With extra money from a scholarship Bergen earned in her final year of studies burning a hole in her
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pocket, she decided to gear up her cycling game — and make it a bit more efficient on her legs — by buying a road bike and shoes. That allowed her to explore routes further afield from her usual routine. She climbed Mt. Seymour, then she did it and Cypress on the same day. “It was super haphazard,” Bergen said of her training regime. On the ride to Whis-
tler, Bergen said she was enthralled when groups of cyclists working together would pass her. “This is freaking cool,” she said. “It’s sweet and fast and efficient.” The experience fuelled Bergen’s competitive nature even further. She connected with a coach in Vancouver, joined a local club then started entering amateur races like the Tuesday night criterium
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races that used to circumnavigate a course out at the University of British Columbia and are now based in Burnaby. Bergen said her learning curve was steep, but she absorbed a lot of information about training, race tactics and team dynamics from her teammates and other competitors. “That was the first time I’d been exposed to getting direction,” Bergen said, adding some of her mentors include Canadian Olympian Denise Ramsden and veteran pro racer Leah Guloien, who had experience in big time women’s races in Europe, including the Ladies Holland Tour and the Route de France. “I’ve been fortunate to have really good people around me,” she said. Bergen said her naivety about the rigours of top level bike racing probably worked in her favour. She said she was driven by a “reckless passion,” and an unflappable belief that she could succeed if she applied herself. “It takes hard work, but that’s the one skill I can bring,” she said. After learning her trade with smaller amateur teams, Bergen turned pro with Rally/UHC Cycling in 2017. That meant instead of rubbing elbows with other racers in a tight, flat circuit around a Burnaby business park, she was hitting the road in multi-day races, such as the Santos
Women’s Tour Down Under in Australia, the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico and the Amgen Tour of California. At the end of June, she’ll be at the Canadian championships in Gatineau, Que., trying to retain her jersey as the women’s national criterium champion. After B.C. Superweek, where Bergen expects to defend her title in New West and fight for the top step of the podium in Gastown and Port Coquitlam, she is headed for Europe to compete in La Course, a one-day event organized by the Amaury Sports Organization, the same company that puts on the Tour de France. She’ll also race in RideLondon, a legacy of the 2012 Olympics in that city. Bergen said the tight quarters of North American criterium racing are a good warmup for racing on the narrow roads of Europe, where positioning and timing can make or break a result. But, she said, racing in front of a hometown crowd is special, especially when so much of her season is spent away from Greater Vancouver. “It’s a bomb,” she said. “There’s a really fun undertone to it that now you’re racing in my backyard.” The Global Relay Gastown Grand Prix will be held July 10. The pro women race is at 6:15 p.m., while the men hit the cobblestone course at 7:30 p.m.
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The Vancouver Police Department gave local media a chance to train like police officers for a few hours June 28. Reporters were invited to meet with the department’s Force Options Training Unit at VPD’s Tactical Training Centre just off Great Northern Way near Clark Drive where officers took us through physical control tactics, how and why police officers use different levels of force — from “soft physical control” to lethal force and everything in between — and how to defuse a potentially volatile situation using only words. “Police use of force can be contentious and often misunderstood,” said media relations officer Const. Steve Addison. “It’s important that we do everything we can to help the public understand how police officers train and the challenges we face in dynamic situations when we have to make splitsecond decisions.”
Police use of force can be contentious and often misunderstood. Const. Steve Addison
Vancouver police officers respond to an average of 240,000 calls for service annually. Force — described as hard physical control (techniques that have a higher probability of causing injury) or the use of a weapon (bean bag gun, Taser, or firearm) — is used in less than one per cent of those cases. So far this year, Vancouver police officers have pulled out their Tasers 23 times — in three of those cases the device did not have to be deployed, Const. Matt McKinnon with the Force Options Training Unit told reporters. As for firearms, according to numbers from the provincial Police Services Division, one Vancouver police officer discharged their firearm in 2017 (the last year the sta-
tistics are available), down from three in 2016. In 2007, the B.C. government’s policing and security branch starting tracking how often police officers shot their guns. The numbers show that between 2007 and 2017 there were an average of 13 police shooting incidents in the province with an average of four deaths and four people injured every year. “The vast majority of situations we encounter are resolved through verbal dialogue, however sometimes we need to use force, and when we do we need to make sure the force is reasonable, appropriate and legally justified,” Addison said. The department employs a team of role-players as part of the training. They act as the suspects, but also as bystanders who might try to film officers, yell at them, or interfere. Retired VPD Sgt. Clive Milligan, who currently trains new recruits in use of force at the B.C. Police Academy, said that officers are able to defuse a lot of situations through using their brains, staying calm and talking to people but have to be prepared to fight. “Treat everybody with respect, but when you’re in a fight, you have to win that fight,” he said. “Then after that fight, you treat everyone with courtesy and respect.” After a couple hours of training and hearing some of the theory and techniques behind police use-of-force, reporters were thrust into two reallife scenarios depicted by a team of role-players. One is a domestic situation involving a delusional and agitated individual with a weapon (a plastic crowbar) where we’re able to defuse the situation, and get the man to put down his weapon, by simply talking to him. The second scenario was more of a surprise attack. A (simulated) average morning in a coffee shop turns into chaos when a man enters and starts shooting — the cashier and a customer are hurt. The friend of the injured customer is yelling for us to call an ambulance. We take cover and shoot back, disabling the assailant. The simulation quickly ends.
The guns, of course, shoot nothing but blanks and no one is hurt, but the experience and the adrenaline of having to make split-second, lifeor-death decisions feel very real. @JessicaEKerr
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Social media is straining democracy at Vancouver city hall Mike Klassen
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In 2011, Vancouver Courier chose social media as its Newsmaker of the Year because of how these emerging platforms were affecting the public dialogue around major political decisions, particularly at city hall. Over the past few years, social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have come under increasing scrutiny for their ability to affect the outcome of elections and for allowing hate speech to propagate. Social media is a significant aspect of local politics today, and while I value the benefits of realtime reporting of news on Twitter and the ability to maintain social and business connections through Facebook, the downsides of social media are increasingly apparent to me. The online debate — if you could call it that — over the recent proposal to build townhouses at 4575 Granville St. next to a hospice is an example of where social media amplified the issue and distorted reality. Of course, there are a lot of questions that rise out of city council’s 7-4 rejection of the townhouse develop-
Columnist Mike Klassen points to the online debate over a proposed townhouse development next to a hospice as an example of where social media amplified the issue and distorted reality. PHOTO iSTOCK
ment proposal, such as why did it go as far as it did? The fact that council had to sit through nine hours of public hearing over three days, and receive hundreds of pieces of correspondence, suggests that something about our public hearing process is not working. Council would have seen it was going to be a gong show as hours’ worth of speakers queued up, and should have the ability to send the rezoning back to staff. Why were mayor and council put in a position to vote on whether to rezone a property next to a hospice
in the first place? Yes, the proposal met established policy guidelines, but staff should have seen the social implications of this vote well before it arrived in the council chamber. One might also ask why there is a hospice located along a busy thoroughfare such as Granville Street as well, but that will not change anytime soon. The tony parts of the Granville Street corridor should definitely be making way for higher density housing projects. However, requiring that the rents be “affordable” in a neigh-
bourhood where shops and services cater to Vancouver’s well-heeled citizens strikes me as completely incongruous. Hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours of staff time ended up wasted on just this one rezoning proposal. At a minimum, it begs for a postmortem to explain how it happened, and how to avoid another blunder like it. The outrage on social media about the 4575 Granville St. plan made the debate deeply personal. Motives were often assigned to proponents, staff and members of council to make
them seem insensitive, out of touch and even corrupt. Instead of informing the public, the platforms are straining our democracy. Last April, people gathered in Vancouver for the pricy annual TED Talks conference to listen to speakers such as Carole Cadwalladr, a U.K. investigative journalist whose work on the Cambridge Analytica scandal that rocked Facebook earned her a Pulitzer Prize. Her talk titled “Facebook’s role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy” took aim at what she called “the gods of Silicon Valley.” It is
riveting viewing and I suggest everyone search for it online. With pinpoint precision, Cadwalladr excoriates the leadership of Facebook, Alphabet/Google and Twitter for their failure to fully reckon with the extent to which their tools are being used for the spread of lies and misinformation. “This technology you have invented has been amazing, but now it’s a crime scene, and you have the evidence,” said Cadwalladr. “It is not enough to say that you will do better in the future, because to have any hope of stopping this from happening again, we have to know the past.” She cites Brexit as evidence that “liberal democracy is broken” — blames social media and Facebook especially for “spreading lies in darkness” that helped the Leave vote to succeed. The journalist then asks her Vancouver audience — and presumably the millions who will view her speech online — “Is this what we want? To let them get away with it, and to sit back and play with our phones as this darkness falls?” My answer to those questions is unreservedly “no.” But how do we stop it? @MikeKlassen
Townhouse decision illustrates need for overall Granville Corridor plan Michael Geller
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Last week, I awoke to the news that city council had voted 7-4 to reject the rental housing proposal at 4575 Granville St. next to a hospice. While pleased, I was not elated like others, given the urgent need for rental housing, and time and money devoted to the failed application. The applicant was rightly disappointed, as was the late Morris Wosk in June 1990, when city council rejected a proposal he and I submitted for three towers at Langara Gardens, creating an additional 280 rentcontrolled apartments. There was a serious rental housing crisis at the time, and our proposal had the support of the Urban Design Panel, the director of planning and certain aldermen. However, community opposition was very loud, orchestrated in part by a senior city hall planner who was concerned the new development would block his bedroom’s view of Mount Baker. Three decades later, council has approved a much
higher density Langara Gardens plan for 2,100 homes that will dwarf the four existing 18-storey towers. Returning to Granville Street, while some councillors expressed concern about affordability, Jean Swanson voted against the motion, in part, because the owner would get a huge increase in value if the property was upzoned. Would she have opposed Banting and Best’s discovery of insulin in the early 1920s because they too would make money from their invention? While I expected the mayor to support the rezoning, I was surprised by Coun. Christine Boyle’s vote since I thought she would be sympathetic to the hospice’s concerns. But I owe her an apology since I missed her remarks at the public hearing, which she subsequently set out in a thoughtful, caring online editorial. Like Boyle, I too hope we will see future rental housing proposals elsewhere along Granville Street and in Shaughnessy. However, before council considers more spot-rezonings, we need an
Columnist Michael Geller would like to see a new plan and design guidelines permitting more multi-family housing along Granville Street, maintaining the “green ribbons” along both sides of the street. PHOTO MICHAEL GELLER
overall Granville Corridor plan and design guidelines. Ten years ago, the city approved a three-phase planning program for the Cambie Corridor. A comprehensive plan with detailed planning guidelines was prepared for each portion of the street, and dozens of applications came forward to replace
aging bungalows with sixto eight-storey apartment buildings and townhouses. While the resulting designs and character may not be to everyone’s liking, Cambie Street has become a dense, urban street. Redevelopment is now extending into surrounding neighbourhoods. Granville Street has always had a different char-
acter than Cambie Street. While it does not have a central landscaped median, it is lined with green ribbons of trees, hedges and gardens. A new Granville Corridor Plan should retain this overall character by allowing mansions to be subdivided into suites and additional infill housing, while other single-family properties are redeveloped with apartments, townhouses, and stacked townhouses. However, city hall should improve the approval process for Granville Street and not repeat the process used along Cambie Street. There, rather than simply require development and building permits, the city insisted that every application go through a separate rezoning process. This resulted in considerable effort and costs for applicants, city staff and council, not to mention unnecessary, lengthy delays. For Granville Street, the city should prepare an overall plan, and then expeditiously approve development permits for applications if in accordance with the plan. The same should hap-
pen along the West Broadway Corridor. As recently reported in the Courier, a developer has proposed another rezoning for the former Denny’s site at Birch Street. I say “another” since a 2018 rezoning increased the permitted height from 12 storeys to 16 and floor space ratio from 3.0 to 7.07 for a secured rental housing project. The latest proposal is for 28 storeys and is in response to a new moderate-income rental housing program that allows spot rezonings. Many neighbourhood residents, architects and planners are concerned the latest proposal is out of scale with its surroundings and should not be approved, especially in advance of an overall plan for the Broadway Corridor. I agree. While there is an urgent need for affordable rental housing, there is also a need to plan for a beautiful city. Spot rezonings that increase density in the name of affordability need not always be supported. After all, sometimes big can be too big. @michaelgeller
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Left: Amsterdam’s former “night mayor” Mirik Milan spoke to Vancouver city council last May. Right: Red Gate Arts Society directors Jim Carrico and his daughter Ana Rose Carrico at the artist space at 855 East Hastings in the spring of 2018. The facility closed May 31, 2018, and has since reopened on Main Street. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET
Speculation weeding out grassroots arts spaces at alarming pace As two arts and culture studies near completion, two more venues owned by Chip Wilson close John Kurucz
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Just like Kawhi Leonard, Mirik Milan fancies himself as a fun guy. As the “night mayor” of Amsterdam from 2012 to 2018, Milan was tasked with bringing fun back to a city that wasn’t having much of it. He stood before Vancouver city council right around this time last year and spoke to how Amsterdam worked to shed its standing as a “No Fun City.” “A vibrant nightlife makes sure a lot of young, creative people want to live in our city,” he told council on May 3, 2018. As “night mayor,” Milan also helped shape and advise policy in the Dutch capital in an effort to bolster arts and culture, cut down on public drunkenness and, perhaps most importantly, retain young people who were flocking to other European cities. Though no longer Amsterdam’s “Nachtburgemeester,” Milan’s work has had ripple effects across the globe: New York City, Paris, London, Sydney, San Francisco, you name it. Two years before taking the gig in Amsterdam, Milan began noticing an unsettling trend: people in their 20s and 30s were leaving Holland en masse. Why? Amsterdam wasn’t fun anymore. The kids were heading elsewhere not only to have a good time, but also
to find more lucrative work. The Amsterdam workarounds Milan listed to council last year were many. He cited the establishment of 24-hour venues outside the city’s core, other venues that were alcohol-free and the advent of multi-use spaces — art galleries, family-friendly programming and co-working spaces all in the same area — to dissuade widespread public drunkenness. Milan also dropped this nugget of truth from the Dutch experience: “Small, grassroots venues — this is the lifeline, this is where innovation takes place,” Milan said. “You need to revitalize or innovate the scene from these grassroots little venues. That is always our advice to the mayor of Amsterdam.”
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Which brings us to today and Vancouver’s on again, off again tag of “No Fun City.” Two grassroots venues have recently gone belly up just off the Clark Drive corridor, one of the last bastions of affordable industrial space in Vancouver. Gigs, art shows and all manner of performances ended last weekend at Merge and INDEX, a pair of DIY spaces near the port on Powell Street, which existed for about six years. According to the head honchos of each space, the end has come by way of renoviction from Low Tide Properties, the
property management firm run by former lululemon magnate Chip Wilson. Nathan Drillot and Patrick Campbell were in charge of INDEX, while Juno-Award winning musician Stephen Lyons ran the show at Merge. By day, each place housed dozens of creatives — photographers, musicians and other artists — and by night, live music and art shows were offered. Stalled lease negotiations, a lack of communication and rent increases were the death knell for both operations. “It’s incredibly sad to build this place up over the last six years and see it end,” Campbell said. “We want to open up a new space but we’re going to have to pay triple just to even try and get something equivalent.” Thousands of art and music shows have happened between the two venues since 2013. Drillot, Lyons and Campbell have roughly 30 years’ worth of collective experience running DIY spaces and the latest closure could be their last kicks at the can. “We’ve hit a critical mass where there isn’t anywhere else to go,” Drillot said. “We all got gentrified off Main Street, so then everyone starting moving into Strathcona. Now we’re getting gentrified out of here. There isn’t another place to go.” The Red Gate Arts Society suffered the same fate last spring, and the renoviction orders also came from Low Tide. A 150 per
cent rent increase spelled the end, and Red Gate has since moved from East Hastings to Main Street. The new digs came with a 50 per cent rent increase. All four venue operators take umbrage with Low Tide marketing itself as being an arts-friendly developer that ultimately displaces members of that same community. That Wilson has publicly stated the company’s desire to acquire $1.5 billion of property in the city and runs a holding company called “Hold it All” only adds to venue managers’ frustration. “The most annoying thing about this mass eviction of local culture and community is the incredible hypocrisy of placing ‘culture’ and ‘community’ at the centre of their marketing,” Red Gate Arts Society director Jim Carrico told the Courier by email. The Courier reached out several times to Low Tide specifically asking for an interview with Wilson or anyone else from the company and received no response.
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The loss of musical and cultural space is becoming old hat in Vancouver. A sharp decline in rehearsal spaces started to become a talking point in the last three years. Venues have been closing consistently since the 2010 Olympics: gone are Richards on Richards, the Columbia, the Brickyard, the Media
Club and the Picadilly Pub. The Starfish Room and Mesa Luna shut their doors in the early 2000s. The Rio Theatre flirted with closure last year, as did the Fairview Pub and Backstage Lounge. Even those who make instruments, and command a lot of money for doing so, have been forced out. A pair of city-led studies two years in the making are looking at those very issues. The Creative City Strategy is focusing on inclusion in the arts, while examining how the viability of making a go of it in the creative sectors. The Vancouver Music Strategy is keying in on the gaps in the scene and how musical enclaves can exist in all neighbourhoods across Vancouver. Both studies are expected to be before council by September with final recommendations. Some of the ideas bounced around in the last two years have included expanding building types — an arts space in a firehall, for example — or developing a land reserve for arts and culture spaces that would be tax exempt. Coun. Michael Wiebe helped galvanize the Save the Rio campaign last year and is a member of the Vancouver Art House Society. The group’s sole mandate is to preserve arts and culture spaces in the city. Among the ideas Wiebe and others at the city and province are looking at is
creating a new property class that would include a 10-year tax abatement. Organizations that provide arts and culture services would have to prove their commitment to arts and culture over at least a decade in order to qualify for those tax breaks. “If someone wanted to develop, they would have to pay the benefit they got for every year prior plus a penalty,” Wiebe explained. “It would be very expensive for a developer to develop.” A good chunk of the Vancouver Art House Society’s work revolves around negotiating leases, looking at an organization’s financials and exploring non-profit or co-op models. Wiebe also sees a potential workaround in the shifting demographics of Vancouver as they relate to age and wealth. He suggests those who are comfortable financially could opt to invest in cultural institutions rather than buying expensive vehicles or tooling off to Cabo San Lucas. “I think that’s what our goal is — to find ways to leverage the property so that it’s taken out of the speculation, it’s taken out of this real estate market and it’s kept in this market for arts and cultural spaces, where people can invest in it and continue to ensure that their assets are rich,” Wiebe said. @JohnKurucz
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This month, it will have been half a century since two American astronauts walked on the moon for the first time. It was a major “where were you when” moment, if you were alive at the time. On July 20, 1969, most people around the world with access to a TV were glued to it, watching the stunning event live. Legendary Vancouver DJ and self-taught astronomer “Jolly” John Tanner was one of those people. Tanner moved to Vancouver in 1964 from his hometown of Kelowna to accept a job offer from Red Robinson to work at CFUN Radio on West Fourth Avenue. Ever since, Tanner has been intrinsically linked to local radio, the Planetarium, and many of the major pop culture events and movements this town has seen over the past 55 years. “I started working at the Planetarium as a part-time lecturer the first year it opened,” recalls Tanner, now 75. “That was in 1968. In fact, I did the very first presentation ever at the Planetarium. It was called ‘The Way of the Stars.’ I have always been big into astronomy.”
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By 1967, after a fruitful run at CFUN, where he literally called the play-byplay of Beatlemania and the free love revolution happening right outside the station’s window, Tanner was working for the open-format radio station LG73. A year later, he accepted the parttime gig at the Planetarium and worked both jobs. He remained at the Planetarium (now called the Space Centre) for 47 years, retiring in 2015. Starting in 1977, Tanner would host the Planetarium’s light shows with Craig McCaw, his amateur astrology buddy from childhood and former member of the Poppy Family. The light shows morphed into the famed Planetarium laser shows that matched music with stars and steadily blew stoners’ minds until 2012. When it comes to the moon landing in the summer of 1969, Tanner can recall it with great clarity. “Craig and I had a Planetarium moon landing party that night,” remembers Tanner. “Except the Planetarium didn’t have a TV yet, so we were all over at our house, which was nearby at 1438 Arbutus, right across the street from Kits Beach.” Many other soon-to-be
legendary Vancouver DJs were in attendance, including Fred Latremouille and J.B. Shayne. “While the landing was happening on TV, we were able to step outside and look up at the moon,” says Tanner still with wonder in his voice. “It was so weird to think that they’re up there walking around. It was very spacey and surreal and a momentous time for all astronomy and space fanatics.” The surreal nature of the party didn’t stop there. “There was a guy named Andy at the party, and he had this pet monkey named Willy. It was a spider monkey, and quite well behaved,” Tanner says. “But when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the moon and said his famous line [‘One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’], we all went nuts and started screaming. Well, that monkey completely freaked out. It leapt from Andy’s shoulder onto J.B. Shayne’s back, and shat all over him. J.B. tore off his shirt and threw it outside.” On July 11, the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the famed moonwalk with an event entitled “Apollo 11: Music
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and Exploration,” including a performance by Vancouver band Elastic Stars inside the iconic Planetarium Star Theatre. Colin Cowan is the lead singer and songwriter for Elastic Stars. He’s a hilarious guy, an amazing performer and a bit of a monkey in his own right. He’s also a journeyman musician originally from Moncton, who has played bass in such bands as Black Mountain, Destroyer and Dan Mangan’s band. The cosmic Elastic Stars is all his own. “We really do have a lot of songs about the moon and the cosmos,” Cowan says. “Ever since I was a kid I’ve always been fascinated about space, the moon landing specials and people’s natural instinct to look up into the sky and wonder what’s out there.” The man behind beaming up the idea for the party is Michael Unger, programs coordinator at the Space Centre. “In looking back at the Apollo missions in the 1960s,” says Unger, “I was struck by how influential they were not only on a human exploration level, but across all aspects of society, especially the arts. Elastic Stars seemed to be the perfect fit, as they have a cosmic perspective in their music that would provide the perfect soundtrack for our retrospective look at this incredible mission.” Apollo 11: Music and Exploration with Elastic Stars takes place at the H.R. MacMillian Space Centre on Thursday, July 11, at 8 p.m. The event will include a set by the Elastic Stars, and a panel discussion on the Apollo missions and the future of space exploration. Tickets are $25 and the event is 19-plus. Cosmic costumes are encouraged. No word on whether Willy the Monkey will be in attendance. Or J.B. Shayne. @grantlawrence
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West Fourth Khatsahlano Street Party Khatsahlano is Kitsilano’s summer street festival showcasing more than 50 of Vancouver’s top musical performers as well as the eclectic work of local artisans and street performers. This 10-block street fair also features a wide variety of food options, bustling patios, special activities and licensed beer gardens. July 6, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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Your chance to enjoy our city’s acclaimed and long-standing Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for free under the stars returns to Sunset Beach Park for their Symphony at Sunset performance. Music director Otto Tausk will lead the VSO performing Mussorgsky’s “A Night on Bald Mountain” from Disney’s Fantasia, “The Love Theme” from Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Juliet,
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Ditch the four wheels and grab your transit pass, walking shoes, or bicycle and head to Vancouver’s historic Little Italy for Car Free Day on Commercial Drive. This is where Car Free Day began and continues in vibrant tradition, with merchants, restaurants and locals galore. July 7, noon to 7 p.m. Venables to North Grandview on Commercial Drive carfreevancouver.org
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After a long journey, Vancouver Island’s Benn has returned home
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Jordie Benn’s first NHL training camp was with the Vancouver Canucks, over a decade ago. Benn grew up across the Georgia Strait from Vancouver, cutting his teeth with teams such as the Peninsula Panthers, Victoria Salsa and Victoria Grizzlies, where he was teammates with his younger brother, Jamie. While Jamie got drafted by the Dallas Stars and quickly rocketed to stardom, Jordie took the road less travelled. In 2008, Benn signed his first professional contract with the Manitoba Moose, then the Canucks’ AHL affiliate, after a strong performance as an invitee at a prospect camp. That’s how he ended up at Canucks’ training camp in September 2008. “I’m pretty sure there’s a picture of me at camp with no beard and zits all over my face,” said Benn, who now sports a giant, red-tinged beard that makes him look a little like Yukon Cornelius, the prospector from the Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special. He didn’t have a shot at earning a contract with the Canucks that year and couldn’t even stick with the Moose. Instead, he came back home to Victoria to play for the Salmon Kings in the ECHL. Most players that start out their professional careers with a full season in the ECHL have a low chance of making the NHL, but Benn was determined to buck the odds. “It’s a lot of stages to go through, but it’s just part of the game,” Benn said at the time. “I have to do it to get where I want to be.” Benn got the opportunity to get to where he wanted to be with his younger brother’s team. He played a season with the Allen Americans, the CHL affiliate of the Dallas Stars, then worked his way up to the Texas Stars in the AHL the next season. Slowly, but surely, Benn worked his way up the depth chart of the Dallas Stars until he was finally a full-time NHL defenceman. Eventually, a trade brought Benn back
Former Montreal Canadien Jordie Benn (right) brings his beard and rugged play back to the West Coast where his hockey pursuits started. PHOTO PAUL CHIASSON/CANADIAN PRESS
to Canada, but on the opposite side of the country with the Montreal Canadiens. While he loved Montreal, he knew that he couldn’t pass up a chance to bring things full circle and play in Vancouver. “When you have a chance to go home and play in front of your friends and family and a team that you grew up watching, it’s just one of those things that I’ve always wanted to do,” said Benn. “I told my brother and he told me just to go for it, so I’m ecstatic to come home and play for the Canucks.” There’s the added bonus that his family is so close by. “I couldn’t pass up going home and watching my little niece grow up and
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hanging out with my family,” he said. “I got a chance to be a ferry ride away from my family and I thought it was a nobrainer for me.” Benn doesn’t have delusions of grandeur about how he will fit into the Canucks. He knows he’s not a puckrushing defenceman or a power play specialist. “I’m just going to come in and log a few minutes and hopefully I can help out on the penalty kill,” said Benn. “It’s our job to get those fast, young forwards the puck and let them do the work, so it should be entertaining hockey.” He also foresees stepping up physically to help out the Canucks’ young core. the Canucks from adding a top-six winger in free agency.
Big Numbers • 203 Tyler Myers is listed at 6’8”, but his more precise height in centimetres is 203 cm, which comes
“We’ve got to give our forwards room and take care of the young kids and show them the ropes,” he said. “If anyone really messes around I can step in there and take the brunt of it.” That would immediately make Benn a fan-favourite for a Vancouver fanbase that has frequently complained about the team being too soft. Before long, fans could be bringing him old Victoria Salsa jerseys to sign.
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