LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

MCIP RPP. Founder of https://t.co/i4uaVq7rWR Developer + Consultant. Adjunct Professor UBC + SFU. Director https://t.co/fOGGhQ9lns (Land Econ) + https://t.co/iWd7kkMWk1 Vancouver BC Joined October 2021

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

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Mark Carney @MarkJCarney

6 days ago

You showed a level of character that some people never achieve in their life. @CANMNT_Official

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

2 weeks ago

@rrrobbberttt Yea ... great team but I'd not support any ransom.

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

2 weeks ago

@Bill_McCreery You wear it well

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

2 weeks ago

Baseless innuendo is the favoured tool of idiots and hacks

Bill McCreery @Bill_McCreery

2 weeks ago

Was Josh White involved in these alleged briberies in Calgary? They would have happened under his watch, would they not? cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

2 weeks ago

Rocking a talk on “STICKY PLACES: Development Economics + Placemaking” with fellow Developer-Planner colleague BradJones (Wesgroup) at the Urban Experience Alliance, Vancouver BC

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

2 weeks ago

@steeletalk Just don't weep outside in Edmonton in the winter! -46C is❄️ When I worked at CMHC we used to do a market analysis presentation that compared what $400K would buy across Canada - everyone here green with envy.

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

2 weeks ago

Your memory and reasoning are not improving with time Bill. I've never advocated for “tinier and tinier units”. I’ve consistently argued for well-designed, compact urban homes in locations where people can live without devoting all of their income to land costs and transportation. Nothing gets built unless it pencils. There’s a significant difference between thoughtful urban intensification and the caricature you’ve constructed. Conflating the two may be convenient for your rhetoric because it helps you avoid engaging with the actual economics of housing and urban land. And you DO excel at avoiding basic economics. To wit, your failed attempts to hide the real Oak + 49th location and econmics of your low density "7 minute neighbourhoods" (teardown properties starting at$3M+). Your 1970s time-travel fantasy of low-density big-unit development will never pencil - you won't even share a simple pro forma for your ridiculous ideas. Housing prices did not rise because apartments became smaller. Prices rose because land-constrained cities underproduced housing relative to population and investment demand for decades and because 4 levels of government have grown fond of mining housing for revenue. In cities like Vancouver, the choice is not between preserving some romanticized low-density ideal and building compact housing. The choice is between accommodating growth intelligently with ++Intensity (reducing land cost) and better urban design, or pushing households permanently out of the communities they sustain. But that conversation requires engaging with evidence rather than slogans and time-travel pills to the 1970s. youtube.com/watch?v=qqa4G0…

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

2 weeks ago

@fabulavancouver @Bill_McCreery @markeburge @OwenInVan I think it’s a smart plan to open space for more retail nodes in little odd corners of the city that are in the path of new development. Notwithstanding the general economic malaise, retail is actually a decent RE sector.

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

3 weeks ago

@fabulavancouver I remember that one Frances … irrational opposition to a very low density proposal. Also remember this!!

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

3 weeks ago

@CrashKate @fabulavancouver Ah yes … the voices of which people?

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

3 weeks ago

@VancouverSun Todd spreads nonsense. The City IS moving in the right direction. Where is the "Diversity" of the insanely stupid OLD visions that emerged from Vancouver's neighbourhoods 20 years ago? These were truly uniform, sterile, unadaptable, unaffordable.

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

3 weeks ago

@Lanefab Bryn is right ….

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

3 weeks ago

@PHfloor Consider that the cumulative burden of 4 levels of taxes and levies is crushing development projects for buyers/renters with top quartile incomes …. Now project them on anything that might otherwise be affordable to third quartile HH Income (median $100K/yr to say $150K/year).

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

3 weeks ago

@PHfloor The danger of using tomorrow's rents and yesterday's costs ... economics are uncertain moving forward. One thing is certain: the old days of every level of government getting $$$ wants out of new housing production are over.

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

3 weeks ago

I agree that Co-Design is a great tool for smaller local scale planning but I disagree strongly that "Neighbourhoods" have been poised to lead change in Vancouver. Historically quite the opposite ... to wit: the ARKS "Vision" of 2005. Or the West Point Grey Plan of 2010. Both disasters facilitated by City of Vancouver Planning. "A lack of community responsibility to a city-wide issue [housing choice and affordability] combined with the INABILITY TO HOUSE EVEN THEIR OWN RESIDENTS as they move through life-stages is seen as highly problematic" was the conclusion of a City Review Panel in response to the WPG Plan.

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

4 weeks ago

+Supply created a $129K loft apartment for me in Downtown South in the late 1990s and a $200K 2-bedroom (fully furhished) a few years later at Alberni and Bute in Triangle West .... what erased the starter-apt and middle-market condo options in the Downtown and across the region? The cost to develop an apartment increased 3X over the last 20 years, but government taxes, fees and levies increased 7X. Incomes ... only 1.7X.

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

4 weeks ago

Important presentation on TALL BUILDINGS POLICY for Vancouver's Downtown. Will planning options for 100+ storey buildings on some sites add to or detract from Vancouver's liveability, amenity, affordability, economy? Free tickets here: universe.com/events/vancouv… See you there!!

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LiveableCityPlanning Ltd @LcpVan

4 weeks ago

I think some heavy water-filled planters may be in order …. The number of scofflaws is impressive along this stretch of Cambie. I think the road diet will also slow things down to reasonable levels. Easy to see vehicles at 100Km/h down this stretch before this skinnier road reconfiguration .