The research found that those children who were exposed to more green space and vegetation within a 250-metre buffer zone around their postal code had a stronger likelihood of doing better in kindergarten.
Uniquely, this neighbourhood is primarily built on city-owned land meaning every resident of Vancouver is literally an owner of the land. On behalf of us owners, the municipal government chose to lease the land to various strata and co-ops on a long-term basis. These leases are set to expire over the next decade and a half, so the city has embarked on a planning program to decide the future of the area, with a survey running until February 28.
The city leaders of the 1970s billed False Creek South as the optimal planned community, in contrast to what they erroneously saw as the mistake of allowing the West End to exist, which is consistently recognized as one of Canada’s best neighbourhoods. The promise at the time was that FCS would be a unique neighbourhood of mixed market and non-market housing that would be more affordable and inclusive than more traditionally developed areas.
Inside Vancouver City Hall’s Housing Wars
Voters demanded action on affordability. What they got is so weirdly split we tried to map the mess.
Doug Ward is a freelance writer and previously a reporter at the Vancouver Sun. SHARES Mayor of Splitsville? Kennedy Stewart faces a fractured council when it comes to housing reforms.
Collage by Christopher Cheung. Building images via Google Street. City hall photo by popejon2 via Wikipedia, CC BY 2.0.
When Vancouver voters last went to the polls, the most pressing issue for two out of three was the housing crisis. Tight rentals and skyrocketing home prices were shutting out younger and lower-income residents, and the Vision Vancouver government was due for a shellacking given that 85 per cent of those surveyed said the job it had done was either “bad” or “very bad.”