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9 months

The world needs more cafe / playground combos

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Look how few cars there are driving on this road We should definitely draw broad conclusions about how much people like cars from this one photo of a partially completed road network

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2 years

A fully accessible 6 plex with shared roof deck and a big shared green space in back. Apartment density (1.4FSR)

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4 years

Check this out. We did some energy modelling. The 'tiny townhouse' that is huddled between its neighbours needs 60% less energy to stay warm vs. the freestanding version. 60%!

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Every morning I walk the kiddo to school through Dude Chilling park. Today I saw that his mom's memorial bench had been installed over the weekend. It's a nice surprise. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.

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Well... just because yesterday I was curious: what might a ~6 storey passive house w no underground parking, a mix of units sizes, and only 50% site coverage look like if it replaced two mid-block 50' single fam lots on the west side.

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2 years

Still thinking a lot about how to do infill in existing single fam 'hoods. This is an accessible / passive house 8 plex that keeps the adjacent side yards, and is only 50% site coverage. Homes are ~1000sf. A 10 plex version might have 4x 500sf units on the ground floor.

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2 years

Getting rid of the side yards means you can keep a big back yard. Getting rid of the underground parkade means you can infiltrate storm water, and reduce the embodied carbon used in the construction. 6 'family sized' 1500sf flats w shared roof deck and rear yard

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3 years

#Vancouver has vast swaths of 50' wide 'single family' lots. Instead of replacing character bungalows with big single family homes >>> we could be doing solar powered #Passivhaus 8 plexes. 8 new 'Family size' homes with bike garages and built in climate resiliency.

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10 months

Sure, Copenhagen is a great model. If Vancouver allowed 6 storeys everywhere without rezoning, and revised its building code to allow those 6 storey apartments to be built without deep floor-plates and hallways and parkades... then sure. Absent that... towers

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"While Vancouver is increasingly turning to towers to achieve housing supply, Copenhagen limits the spread of towers, preferring to stick to lower density." Both cities growing, but Copenhagen designs for all classes. Via @goldinyvr #VanRE #vanpoli

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Working on ideas for the next "Vancouver Special" a 5-plex on a 50x122 lot * Accessible, with individual elevators * Passivhaus / Net Zero * In-suite cargo bike parking / at-grade entrances * 1 Below-market LWH unit * 4 Townhouses with private yards /roof decks / parking

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2 years

5 pages of rules just dedicated to single family ‘exterior design’ in @CityofVancouver RS-7 zoning. This is just about looks. Not affordability. Not climate change. Not accessibility. Looks. This is how you create a housing crisis.

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2 years

Ok. We're going to see if the city will let us do a wee little beast on our tiny property. Mostly because I love spending time and money and sanity on odd little things that make no sense financially. Odds are slim, but, nothing ventured... 1.4FSR. Footprint: 9'x28'

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3 years

#eastvan sunset

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1 year

As @christineeboyle pointed out at council today, it is possible to have both density AND permeable green space... but we have to be willing to let go of the underground parking and the desire to have an apartment building that looks like a 'house'

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2 years

Perhaps I'll call it a 'fab 4' Passive house 4 plex on 33' lot(s). Accessible flats w elevator. 1400sf family sized 3br units. Shared roof deck and yard. ~1.4FSR. Could contribute 500k to $1m toward city's affordable housing fund.

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@pmcondon2 Now show a picture of the single family areas where 'Not-Adding-Density' also led to the most expensive housing. I know the point you're trying to make but I'm not sure this line of argument is helping make it.

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Ok - here's a first-draft four-plex at 1.0FSR on a 33x122 lot. 2 large units + two smaller ground floor homes (with yards). Each of the larger units get a parking space at the rear, a smaller yard, and a roof deck.

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In case you were wondering what the provincial rules <might> allow on a 33' lot, within 400m of a bus route: Here's a 6 plex (740sf, 1br + den flats). 1.5FSR, ~50% site coverage. This version has a roof deck, big balconies, and an elevator but those wouldn't be required.

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@Lanefab

7 months

Speaking of zoning changes... here are a couple of the plex projects we're pushing toward DP submission in the next month

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@Lanefab

3 months

We had a new inspector tell us that one of our infill dwelling projects needed to have a flat exterior window trim more than 1" wide... and holy #$% I quickly forget just how far down the rabbit hole of character micromanagement the whole north american planning profession went

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2 years

How small-frontage 8 and 16 plexes might fit into 33' single family areas.

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@Lanefab

5 years

Today would have been my wife’s 47th birthday... * please encourage the women in your life to get screened for breast cancer * please enjoy the Central Valley greenway, expanded skytrain stations and other regional projects she worked on as an urban planner for Translink ❤️

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Yesterday we gathered to toast an urban planner who was taken from us 2 years ago. She was an advocate for tearing down freeways, building a 100% accessible transit system and connecting bikeways across the region. She was also my kid’s mom. We’re thinking of her this weekend.

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4 years

We should make neighbourhood grocery stores in single family zones legal again.

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@Lanefab

5 years

@BrentToderian Golf courses

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8 months

Hey politicians pushing ‘prefab’ as a way to help the housing crisis… that’s great! but how ‘bout looking at your zoning first? Simple, predictable zoning can deliver 10x the cost and time savings of prefab. (Says the guy who literally has prefab in his twitter name)

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3 years

Hey municipal councillors and planners: if your city makes it harder to get a permit for a lane house than for a mansion, you're doing it wrong.

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@Lanefab

2 years

One of these is easy and lucrative: it can get a building permit relatively quickly, with no rezoning, no n’hood consultation, minimal climate performance, and no affordability req. The other is a 12 unit co-housing project being built to the passive house efficiency standard.

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8 months

Single stair small lot apartment building - this is what comes after plexes

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@UrbanistOrg

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In Phinney Ridge, a land use application for a 6-story apartment building with 24 homes and 0 car parking has been approved.

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In case you're curious, these are the city fees for a 2900sf net zero duplex on a 33' Vancouver lot.

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@Lanefab

8 years

What Vancouver needs: ground oriented 4 plex w family sized units, and existing residents as co-developer. Apartment level density on 1 lot

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@Lanefab

5 months

Amazing! Single-Stair, Small Lot Apartment Buildings are the secret ingredient in great urbanism all around the world. It’s time for Canada to catch up.

Ravi Kahlon

@KahlonRav

5 months

Another important step - finding ways to build differently. ✅ The province will lead a discussion over the next year to update the BC Building Code to explore enabling single egress stairs, that will allow some buildings to be built more efficiently. 👉🏾

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11 months

Classic @CityofVancouver : They tell us our permit is ready to issue, but then come back and tell us that they have planted a tree in front of the property during the time of permit review, so we are now required to spend time and money revising our survey and arborist reports

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6 months

Shaughnessy (FSD) vs the Olympic Village... as a rough sense of scale

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@Lanefab

1 year

Took a quick look at what 1.0 FSR might look like on a typical 50' Vancouver lot. Many ways to do it, but this is: (4x) 1500sf townhouses with yards and roof decks. Option for parking space or cargo bike garage. Basement could potentially be lock off suite.

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You can build a 30,000 sf single family house in vancouver without any affordability requirements or community amenity contribution. But sure, let’s pick apart the cost of a tiny house pilot project

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3 years

I design and build efficient single family houses, and many sf homes are wonderful spacious places, but I always think about this chart when we talk about what kind of big steps need to be taken to keep the climate livable. There's no climate action without zoning reform.

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Trying to build an at-grade, accessible, low carbon duplex in this city is like pulling teeth. Every @#$% design guideline fetishizes basements and pre-determined 1920 aesthetics. It's so @#$% infuriating and backward looking.

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Almost done converting this garage to a two storey lane house. Yes, it would have been easier to simply demo it and rebuild 😜

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3 years

Text from a client living in one of our recently completed Step 5 (~passive house) homes: “... Just letting you know that despite the solar exposure, the house remains nice and cool. We have yet to turn on the AC 👍”

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I think we need to talk about “Growth pays for growth” It feels like another one of those axioms of North American urban planning that needs to be be questioned.

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1 year

Not equivalent Hornby st. separated bike lanes vs 'Off Broadway' Bike street

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1 year

Our tiny lot goes to the BOV this afternoon… wish us luck! Thanks to everyone who has written to express their support.

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4 years

Submitted permit drawings yesterday for the #DalebrightPassiveHouse in @burnaby We’ll start hazmat remediation soon and then deconstruction with Unbuilders. The aim is to turn the nice structural lumber in the existing house into cladding & stair treads for the new house.

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7 years

Strolled past this new project in the 'hood. Small multifamily bldgs like this should be allowed everywhere in the city.

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27 days

Continuing to think about what the next 'vancouver special' should be. This is 2FSR, single stair flats. 50% site coverage with permeable area / trees. Anywhere from 7 to 14 homes. Passive house efficiency, with a nice bike garage and a few parking spots for electric car share.

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2 years

3 to 8 storey passive house w biomass construction is the ‘greenest building’ …not a 1910 bungalow that’s been burning oil and gas for a century and isn’t dense enough to support local shops and transit Time to recognize that the existing building isn’t always the ‘greenest’

Matt Hutchins

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2 years

Even a dumb box can be a powerhouse in the fight against climate change. #Seattle6

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6 months

That is an incredibly disappointing and weak showing from the mayor and ABC, especially if the flimsy rationale is “staff time and economics”. It seems @KahlonRav and the province still have some work to do overcoming the Wealth-Exclusion-Inertia complex in Vancouver.

Christine Boyle

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6 months

UPDATE: Mayor Sim and ABC killed my motion to add badly needed housing in Shaughnessy. 😩 So much for taking the housing crisis seriously. So many excuses, so little tangible action from this Council. #VanPoli

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5 years

#E37thPassiveHouse Before: Draughty, asbestos laden, 'character' home that burned copious quantities of fossil fuels, for decades After: New all-electric passive house with a secondary suite. This is what it looks like when two low-carbon dwellings replace one climate hog.

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The infrastructure cost (sewer, power, water, roads, parks, schools) is so much higher per household in the single family zones. Those areas are highly subsidized by the denser parts of the city. “Growth has been paying for non-growth”

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1 year

Imagine @CityofVancouver corner lane houses being allowed to be little storefronts like this

Coby

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1 year

The fact that it's impossible to walk somewhere as simple as a coffee shop nearly anywhere in the US, because we've made it illegal, is really one of the craziest things about modern America. We have to build walkable cities!

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2 years

A Plex by @ArchitrixStudio going into our neighborhood

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@Lanefab

3 years

Before and after. The E.59th Lane House was built from the bones of an existing garage in East Vancouver.

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@Lanefab

3 years

There once was a time in Vancouver when we didn’t think we should put all the apartments on busy corridors - instead those bustling streets were home to a diversity of small shops, and we built up the housing in the adjacent quiet blocks.

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3 years

Well, it should be interesting to see if we can turn this into a #Passivhaus

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6 years

Several layers, and specific sequences, to do a passive house door threshold so that it's airtight and minimizes thermal bridges. Animations help the guys on site to plan ahead.

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1 year

I can’t believe they have to go through a development permit process just to get a table on the sidewalk @Brassneckbrew #vancouver

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3 years

A thread of project photos; because I do sometimes get tired of talking about zoning and the climate crisis. Here’s the E57th solar lane house.

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1 year

'Single family' zoning was invented as an explicit tool for racial and class exclusion, starting with Berkeley in 1916 and spreading across north america in the early 20th century. Cities are starting to map this history, and every city needs these maps:

Was your home once off-limits to non-Whites? These maps can tell you.

The legacy of segregated neighborhoods nationwide is being analyzed by urban planners and historians who are mapping racial covenants.

www.washingtonpost.com

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4 years

Yesterday we went for a nice sunny ride on the Central Valley Greenway. 🚲 Today we’re remembering my late wife, who was both an awesome mom and a cycling advocate. Her many years as a planner at TransLink were spent working on the CVG and other regional projects.

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Because I'm just a little bit stubborn #V2

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2 years

Coming soon: an 8’ wide sign for a 9’ wide property.

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2 years

"Engagement completed as part of Vancouver Plan indicates that public support for character retention is lower than support for other public objectives, such as adding housing choice in more neighbourhoods and responding to climate change, are growing in importance" CoV Staff

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@Lanefab

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This floor plan could be stacked on a typical vancouver residential lot... we just need the code reforms to allow Single Stair Apartment Buildings

Mike Eliason

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3 months

the american mind cannot comprehend: a 6-plex with 3- and 4-bedroom units. active solar protection. bedrooms with windows. private outdoor space.

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1 year

Half tempted to put on the snow pants and go lounge in those patio chairs

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3 years

Contemplating the extent to which half the planet will become completely unlivable in coming years ... meanwhile, at work, researching whether an existing house’s trim detail means it has ‘enough character merit’ that we’re allowed to add a bathroom #planning #priorities

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1 year

A typical North American city’s bike infrastructure:

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2 years

Just found out it's #WorldCancerDay ... So... here's a pic of the kiddo's mom, who we lost to triple negative breast cancer in 2018... but who still wanted to go camping in her last weeks despite not being able to walk or lie down. Make every moment count.

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It's not the prettiest thing yet, but this is one way the duplex bylaw could let us do a passive house 4 plex in the same space as a typical single family house. With some tweaks (and a lane house) this could be the new Vancouver Special.

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The blind spot is a bit smaller with this guy versus an F150

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@mmpadellan Republicans lose if everyone votes. They'll fight it to the end.

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The 7yr old put together a Vancouver poster for visiting family. I think it’s kind of awesome @VIAwesome

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Ok. Construction of the tiny townhouse prototype is about to kick off! We've got prefab panels from @InsulspanSIPS , windows from @InnotechWindows , skylights from @VELUXCanada and an HRV coming from @smallplanetws @TheTyee @pmcondon2

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Today I was trying to convince the city to replace their 'garage floor area exclusion' with a generic 'accessory/storage' exclusion. This would give people the option to create a garage, or storage room or bike garage.

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4 years

Every homeowner who uses their garage for storage and parks on the street for free is getting a $6k/yr asset paid for by the public. This doesn’t bother me too much until those same folks show up at a hearing and complain about the parking impacts of new housing projects.

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City's free parking spots are worth upward of $6K a year via @CrainsNewYork

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3 years

Probably not a high priority right now, but somebody needs to wash the poodle

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3 years

Vancouver zoning priorities. ‘Character’ > housing action ‘Character’ > climate action It’s time to move on.

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2 years

While the @georgiastraight publishes breathless articles about duplexes, and council frets over individual apartment buildings... this is the reality in much of the city: old house comes down, new house built... now listed at $13m. And repeat.

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Triplexes on a 33x122 lot. Two 4br townhouses in the front (with space for residential elevators) and a lane house at the rear.

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Vancouver’s single family n’hoods are lovely and leafy, but the tax density is a fraction of the adjacent urban areas. Cities are have lost out on a whole lot of tax revenue during the many decades they’ve used zoning to keep density artificially low.

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We don’t usually take on tiny projects, but some ‘no permit’ home office pods might fit the bill for keeping the crew working while we wait for @CityofVancouver building permits .

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Minneapolis: “plexes everywhere!” San Fran: “no more parking minimums” California: “Lane houses statewide!” Vancouver: “OMG rescind duplexes” ...🎶 the dream of the 90s is alive in Vancouver 🎶

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It’s hard to imagine a consultation process that is less representative of the diverse interests of all current (and future) residents... than a public hearing

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5 years

Roof deck at the #E37thPassiveHouse As we move from single family homes to duplexes and four plexes it becomes more and more important that we use the roof for outdoor space (or solar / green roof). This is why we shouldn’t require gable roofs on every new house or duplex.

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Hah! @CityofVancouver evicts our 100sf building, says we can’t build anything, and then sends us a bill for the empty homes tax

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Perhaps we should stop trying to do inventive small eco housing and just build giant @#$% mansions, because the city will give you that on a silver platter

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So - who wants to build a 4 plex in Oak Bay or West Van?

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2 years

Have always liked this end of commercial st with its mix of residential, commercial and light industrial… on a quiet side street. A bit of a #vancouver unicorn

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oh wow... I need to dig into this. Does he have an army of north pole elves working on policy in a basement somewhere?

Ravi Kahlon

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5 months

Today, we released Policy Manuals and Regulations to support the implementation of our Transit-Oriented Development and Small-Scale Multi-Unit legislation. The housing market is not working, and these changes are needed to address the crisis. 👉🏾 🧵[1/5]

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Yes - this tweet is about bike lanes and bike parking etc etc (in case you missed the subtext)

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3 years

What an utterly infuriating process spending months and months working on a character home infill just to have the DP comments come back asking for every single aspect of the building to be changed. All of it arbitrary. Sometimes I love vancouver and sometimes I @#$% hate it.

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2 years

Our 9' wide #TinyTower House concept is facing some headwinds with CoV planning, but we're not giving up yet... This is a 3 storey single fam house with a front yard, rear yard and roof deck, on a 9'x60' lot.

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3 years

Light or dark? #BowenIsland

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4 years

Aiming to single handedly keep the mt pleasant restaurants and cafes afloat (well, 4 hands in this instance)

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5 years

This is what the @CityofVancouver #MakingRoom program is about: allowing a project like this passive house sixplex anywhere you’re already allowed to build a big ol’ single family house. It’s not about towers everywhere or making all ‘hoods the same.

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2 years

Realized recently that what I really want for my n'hood is a brewery with a dog park / playground adjacent.

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@Lanefab

10 months

The fees for a 700sf lane house in Vancouver are over $30,000

Donovan

@DonovanBuilds

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Building permit fee for 3 bed 2 bath duplex I paid for today How does this compare where you live?

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Bryn Davidson @Lanefab

@Lanefab

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The E26th #Passivhaus by Lanefab A narrow 25’ lot in Mt. Pleasant This project was a challenging combo of passive house constraints (insulation / shading) with city of vancouver parking rules and extensive design guidelines that dictated much of the exterior look and shape.

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