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A Convergence of Issues, with great city-building as Vancouver City-Building: an answer! Moving Forward. Together. Housing Affordability Our Citys Key Challenges Rising Costs of Energy Days of inexpensive oil and gas are likely over

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Vancouver City-Building:

Moving Forward. Together.

Brent Toderian, MCIP Director of Planning

MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER:

Tackling Vancouver’s BIG Shared Challenges 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

  • Last 20 years has seen a 2 or 3 times

increase in diseases, asthma, diabetes, depression, heart disease

A Convergence of Issues, with great city-building as an answer! Healthy People, Healthy City

THE VISION: A Complete Downtown…

sustainable, resilient, livable, vibrant

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… AND A COMPLETE CITY

The Last few Years, A Perfect Storm:

  • Global Economic Change
  • Changes at City Hall
  • New Expectations/ Complexities
  • New Parts of the City at Play
  • Cambie Corridor Plan
  • Mt. Pleasant Plan
  • Housing and Homelessness Strategy
  • Regional Growth Strategy
  • Laneway Housing

Despite the Storm…

Greenest City: A Serious and Achievable Goal

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Affordability and Economic Development: Interconnected Priorities!

7101-7201 Granville Street (Shannon Mews) 8495 Granville Street (Marpole Safeway) 4255 Arbutus Street (Arbutus Centre)

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8440 Cambie Street (Marine Gateway) 1553-1577 Main Street

10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Permit Application Volume 130 135 140 145 150 155 160 165 Permitting Staff Levels Application Volumes Staffing Level

Permit Application Volumes

CSG + ENG Permit Applications

1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 6,000,000 7,000,000 8,000,000 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Rezoning and Development Permit Revenue 20 25 30 35 Current Planning Staffing Levels Revenue Current Planning Staffing Levels

  • Increase in size, scale & number of rezonings - revenue

doubling in 1 year (2009-2010)

Planning Volumes

Increase in RZ Volume & Complexity

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Planning the CITY THAT WORKS!

Our architecture is increasingly diverse – But green and urban first!

  • New city-wide challenges & goals
  • Regional, Provincial & Global challenges
  • New Transparencies and efficiences
  • Activity levels are high!
  • Economy is still changing

And Today… Our new “Business as Usual”

  • Green Design is the norm
  • Architectural Diversity growing
  • a fundamental Affordability Focus
  • Job-lands are critical (“the City that Works”!)
  • Strong and flexible Design
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The cornerstone of a Greenest City: Land-Use, and "Density Done Well!"

Completeness is about “density done well”:

  • 1. Land Use and Movement Aligned…

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Our Movements Modes… Prioritized!

Completeness is about “density done well”:

  • 2. Consistently high design quality …
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Completeness is about “density done well”:

  • 3. Amenities and Diversity make density enjoyable!

Growth IS our Policy Density doesn’t guarantee a green city, But it’s a necessary precondition for a green city

EcoDensity

  • Reduced energy use in

buildings, getting around

  • More green design options
  • Less sprawl
  • More affordable housing choices
  • Public health
  • Vitality, diversity, safety
  • Etc, etc, etc…

The “Magic” of Density done well

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Measuring Our Progress

Increase the supply of affordable housing Encourage a housing mix across all neighbourhoods that enhances quality of life Provide strong leadership and support partners to enhance housing stability

3 Strategic Housing Directions

“The three most important words for affordable ownership…

SUPPLY, SUPPLY, SUPPLY”

Supply doesn’t guarantee affordability, but it’s a necessary precondition for affordability

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The Olympics Changed Everything…

Vancouver is not afraid to be different

Vancouver is not afraid to think differently

Downtown freeway plans (late 1950s/60s)

Viaducts & Eastern Core Cambie Corridor Plan

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  • King Edward

– 4 storeys – 1.0 – 1.5 FSR

  • Cambie Street

– 6 – 8 storeys – 2.5 – 3.0 FSR – retain rental housing

Cambie Village Precinct

  • Cambie Street

– 6 storeys – 1.5 – 2.25 FSR

Queen Elizabeth Precinct

  • Cambie Street

– 6 - 12 storeys – 2.25 – 4.5 FSR

  • 41st Avenue

– 6 – 8 storeys – 1.75 – 2.25 FSR

Oakridge Town Centre Precinct Marine Landing Marine Landing Precinct

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Our Current Challenges

  • 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

NEW MODELS for Plan-Making and Building… scale Regional City-wide Community Site level of detail Thinking and Planning at Multiple Scales A Convergence of Plans

Greenest City Action Plan 2010-2011 Housing & Homelessness 2010-2011 Transportation Plan 2011-2012 Urban Health Strategy 2011 Social Infrastructure Strategy 2011 Development Related Benefits 2011

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Transport Plan for the Future

1994 1997 1990 2008 2010

“Vancouver has never had clarity on managing physical change city-wide”

?

A Missing Plan “PlanVancouver” – A City-Wide Plan

  • A Reflection of our BIG Challenges
  • A game-changing, holistic Plan with

Clarity for Physical Change for Everyone!

  • A New Approach for Listening and

Learning

4 New Community Plans at once!

  • A clear and candid mandate
  • Faster and More Meaningful Process
  • Clearer and More Flexible Framework

(“Living Documents”)

  • DTES Plan will be thoroughly unique
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Creativity and Diversity, Not “One-Size Fits All” A Variety of Building Types for Different Contexts:

Towers, Mid-Rise, Stacked forms, Row Housing, laneway Houses etc?

Amenities and Diversity make Density work… … especially for families!

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We can’t (and shouldn’t) separate density and amenity.

Brief History of DCL’s and CAC’s

  • 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?

  • Flat Rate (e.g. Southeast False Creek)
  • Negotiated (e.g. large Sites, Area-

specific Policy Areas – Cambie Corridor)

  • Exempt (e.g. Social Housing, Heritage)

The Need for Clarity

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Getting the Word Out!

  • CAC Brochure
  • Annual DCL & CAC reporting
  • Presentations and outreach
  • Area Plans
  • Rezoning Reports

vancouver.ca/financegrowth

Higher Quality Results, Faster! Less “Churn”, MORE “BANG”!

Connecting the dots and further silo- breaking

Connecting the Dots and further Silo-Breaking

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Put our energies where they do the most good

Single Family Design Higher Density Design Single Family Design Higher Density Design

Put our energies where they do the most good

Photo by +lyn

The future isn’t always completely clear WHERE DO YOU LOOK?

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Look And Listen City-Wide, with New Models.

Need more Listening, Hearing & Understanding

Community Industry City

Not “Us vs. Them”, Just US! Greenest City by 2020?

And a great, affordable, successful, healthy, resilient, vibrant, livable city for people too!

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In other words, a COMPLETE CITY!