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Douglas Todd: Pressure rising to kill Vancouver's 17 'villages' plan

Expert voices are calling for Vancouver council members to cancel the July 14 public hearing on the city's master plan to create 17 new retail villages, which they argue are illogical and will harm existing shopping hubs

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Public pressure is growing on the city of Vancouver to stop rushing forward with 17 new high-density retail “villages.”

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The former co-chief planner for Vancouver, Larry Beasley, has written a strong four-page letter to the mayor and council warning the plan to upzone almost 600 city blocks is a “serious misdirection that will have profound negative unintended consequences to the whole city.”

With the Villages Plan slated for public hearing on July 14, a coalition of 30 veteran urbanists, architects and scholars, called Housing Reset, have also urged Mayor Ken Sim and........

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