1 The Last few Years, AND A COMPLETE CITY A Perfect Storm: - PDF document

A Convergence of Issues, with great city-building as Vancouver City-Building: an answer! Moving Forward. Together. Housing Affordability • Our City’s Key Challenges Rising Costs of Energy • Days of inexpensive oil and gas are likely over Climate Change • GHG’s per capita in Vancouver are lowest in North America, but still too high Aging Population • In 20 years, 1 in 4 Canadians will be 65+ Growing Public Health Issues MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER: • Last 20 years has seen a 2 or 3 times Tackling Vancouver’s BIG Shared Challenges increase in diseases, asthma, diabetes, depression, heart disease Brent Toderian, MCIP Director of Planning Healthy People, Healthy City THE VISION: A Complete Downtown… sustainable, resilient, livable, vibrant 1

The Last few Years, … AND A COMPLETE CITY A Perfect Storm: • Global Economic Change • Changes at City Hall • New Expectations/ Complexities • New Parts of the City at Play Greenest City: A Serious and Achievable Goal Despite the Storm… • Cambie Corridor Plan • Mt. Pleasant Plan • Housing and Homelessness Strategy • Regional Growth Strategy • Laneway Housing 2

Affordability and Economic Development: 7101-7201 Granville Street (Shannon Mews) Interconnected Priorities! 8495 Granville Street (Marpole Safeway) 4255 Arbutus Street (Arbutus Centre) 3

8440 Cambie Street (Marine Gateway) 1553-1577 Main Street Permit Application Volumes Planning Volumes CSG + ENG Permit Applications Increase in RZ Volume & Complexity 8,000,000 35 50,000 165 Current Planning Staffing Levels 7,000,000 Development Permit Revenue 160 6,000,000 40,000 Permit Application Volume Rezoning and 30 5,000,000 Permitting Staff Levels 155 4,000,000 30,000 150 3,000,000 25 2,000,000 145 20,000 1,000,000 140 0 20 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 10,000 135 Revenue Current Planning Staffing Levels • Increase in size, scale & number of rezonings - revenue 0 130 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 doubling in 1 year (2009-2010) Application Volumes Staffing Level 4

Our architecture is increasingly diverse – Planning the CITY THAT WORKS! But green and urban first! And Today… Our new “Business as Usual” • Green Design is the norm • New city-wide challenges & goals • Architectural Diversity growing • Regional, Provincial & Global challenges • a fundamental Affordability Focus • New Transparencies and efficiences • Job- lands are critical (“the City that Works”!) • Activity levels are high! • Strong and flexible Design • Economy is still changing 5

Completeness is about “density done well”: 1. Land Use and Movement Aligned… The cornerstone of a Greenest City: Land-Use, and "Density Done Well!" Completeness is about “density done well”: Our Movements Modes… Prioritized! 2. Consistently high design quality … 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6

Completeness is about “density done well”: Growth IS our Policy 3. Amenities and Diversity make density enjoyable! The “Magic” of Density done well EcoDensity • Reduced energy use in buildings, getting around • More green design options Density doesn’t guarantee a green city, • Less sprawl But it’s a necessary precondition for a green city • More affordable housing choices • Public health • Vitality, diversity, safety •Etc, etc, etc… 7

3 Strategic Housing Directions Measuring Our Progress Increase the Encourage a Provide strong supply of housing mix across leadership and affordable housing all neighbourhoods support partners to that enhances enhance housing quality of life stability “The three most important words for affordable ownership … Supply doesn’t guarantee affordability, but it’s a SUPPLY, SUPPLY, SUPPLY” necessary precondition for affordability 8

The Olympics Changed Everything… Vancouver is not afraid to think differently Vancouver is not afraid to be different Downtown freeway plans (late 1950s/60s) Viaducts & Eastern Core Cambie Corridor Plan 9

Cambie Village Precinct Queen Elizabeth Precinct • King Edward – 4 storeys • Cambie Street – 1.0 – 1.5 FSR – 6 storeys • Cambie Street – 1.5 – 2.25 FSR – 6 – 8 storeys – 2.5 – 3.0 FSR – retain rental housing Oakridge Town Centre Precinct Marine Landing Precinct Marine Landing • Cambie Street – 6 - 12 storeys – 2.25 – 4.5 FSR 41 st Avenue • – 6 – 8 storeys – 1.75 – 2.25 FSR 10

Our Current Challenges NEW MODELS for Plan- Making and Building… • By-law is powerful and flexible, but complicated, user-unfriendly and dated • Policy can lack clarity and be too rigid •Processes can have too much “churn” • Our Public Benefits system needs a fresh look Thinking and Planning at Multiple Scales A Convergence of Plans Greenest City Action Plan scale 2010-2011 Regional Housing & Homelessness 2010-2011 level of detail Transportation Plan City-wide 2011-2012 Urban Health Strategy 2011 Community Social Infrastructure Strategy 2011 Development Related Benefits Site 2011 11

Transport Plan for the Future A Missing Plan ? 1990 1994 1997 2008 2010 “Vancouver has never had clarity on managing physical change city- wide” “PlanVancouver” – A City-Wide Plan 4 New Community Plans at once! • A clear and candid mandate • A Reflection of our BIG Challenges • Faster and More Meaningful Process • A game-changing, holistic Plan with Clarity for Physical Change for Everyone! • Clearer and More Flexible Framework (“Living Documents”) • A New Approach for Listening and Learning • DTES Plan will be thoroughly unique 12

A Variety of Building Types for Different Contexts: Towers, Mid-Rise, Stacked forms, Row Housing, laneway Houses etc? Creativity and Diversity , Not “One - Size Fits All” Amenities and Diversity make Density work… … especially for families! 13

We can’t (and shouldn’t) separate Brief History of DCL’s and CAC’s density and amenity. • 1980s: Amenities delivered by area plans and rezoning process • 1990s: DCLs for specific areas • 2002-2004: Financing Growth Review developed overall policy framework for DCLs and CACs How are CAC’s applied? The Need for Clarity • Flat Rate (e.g. Southeast False Creek) • Negotiated (e.g. large Sites, Area- specific Policy Areas – Cambie Corridor) • Exempt (e.g. Social Housing, Heritage) 14

Getting the Word Out! • CAC Brochure • Annual DCL & CAC reporting • Presentations and outreach • Area Plans • Rezoning Reports vancouver.ca/financegrowth Higher Quality Results, Faster! Connecting the dots and further silo- breaking Less “Churn”, MORE “BANG”! Connecting the Dots and further Silo-Breaking 15

Single Family Design Higher Density Design Single Family Design Higher Density Design Put our energies where they do the most good Put our energies where they do the most good The future isn’t always completely clear WHERE DO YOU LOOK? Photo by +lyn 16

Need more Listening, Hearing & Understanding Look And Listen City-Wide, with New Models. Community Industry City Greenest City by 2020? And a great, affordable, successful, healthy, resilient, vibrant, livable city for people too! Not “Us vs. Them”, Just US! 17

In other words, a COMPLETE CITY! 18