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Planning and Development in Vancouver

Identifying milestones in the evolution of our city

  • About
    • Chronology Project Overview
    • UBC SALA Chronology Student Project
  • Chronology
    • Designating Current Milestones
    • What is a Milestone?
  • Emerging Milestones
    • Emerging Milestones 2020
      • Climate Emergency Plan Approved
      • Public Space Reallocation
      • “Online” City Hall
      • Downtown Public Places for People Strategy
      • Black Lives Matter Movement
      • New temporary shelter for street-based sex workers
      • Slow Streets
    • Emerging Milestones 2019
      • Climate Emergency Response
      • Council approves expropriation of 2 Downtown Eastside hotels
      • Culture | Shift Arts and Culture Plan
      • Rain City Strategy Adopted
      • Squamish Nation proposes 6,000-unit development by Burrard Bridge
    • Emerging Milestones 2018
      • City returns portion of village and burial site to Musqueam
      • Indigenous values incorporated in planning and design
      • City acts on Indigenous, Black and Chinese community interests to heal historic wounds
      • City Council approves Community Benefit Agreement Policy
      • City imposes new levy to curb land value speculation
      • City adopts Women’s Equity Strategy
      • City endorses Making Room Housing Program and Affordable Housing Delivery and Financial Strategy
      • City amends Rental Housing Stock ODP
      • City creates Vancouver Affordable Housing Endowment Fund
      • City approves Cambie Corridor Plan Phase 3.
      • City approves Development Contribution Expectation in Areas Undergoing Community Planning
    • Emerging Milestones 2017
      • Development Permit Board REFUSES development application at 105 Keefer Street in Chinatown
      • Short-term rental accommodation regulations
      • Increased housing choices in single-family zones
      • Vancouver Art Gallery North Plaza Rebuilt
      • Incentives for retention of character homes 
      • New Vancouver Housing Strategy approved
      • Market-based rates for residential parking permits introduced
      • Emily Carr University decamping Granville Island opens door for new vision
      • Collaborative planning process starts for False Creek South
      • City Engineer’s authority is increased
      • Embracing resilience as over-arching policy
      • False Creek Flats plan and new zoning are approved
      • Burrard Bridge upgraded for all road users
    • Emerging Milestones 2016
      • City Buys Arbutus Corridor
      • City Steps Aggressively into Housing
      • SkyTrain Expansion Connects Port Moody, Coquitlam to Vancouver
      • Strata Rules Eased
      • Vancouver Park Board approves Biodiversity Strategy
      • City Adopts Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action
      • Empty Homes Tax Introduced
      • Tax on Foreign Nationals Buying Metro Vancouver Real Estate
      • Changes in Senior Management at City Hall
      • Statistics Canada reintroduces the long form census
    • Previous Years
      • Emerging Milestones 2015
        • Affordable housing protests reach crisis point
        • SRA regulations revised to protect low-income tenants
        • Renewable City Strategy adopted
        • Regional Transportation plebiscite fails
        • New St. Paul’s Hospital for False Creek Flats
        • Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts to be demolished
        • Waterfront Tower proposal ignites hub plan debate
        • Brenhill Decision
        • First Conservation Area: Shaughnessy
      • Emerging Milestones 2014
  • Events
    • Milestones 2020
      • 2020 Year-in-Review Videos
    • ’20 Aftershock: Vancouver’s Pandemics
    • Milestones 2019
      • 2019 Year-in-Review Video
      • Emerging Milestones 2019
      • Event Recap: Milestones 2019 Workshop
        • 2019 Year in Review Workshop Data
    • Milestones 2018
      • TranFORMation 2018 Video
        • Panelists
      • TransFORMation 2018 Podcast
        • Panelists
      • Key Panel Observations
      • Emerging Milestones 2018
      • Milestones 2018 Workshop Recap
      • Milestones 2018 Survey Results
      • Milestones 2018 Team
    • Milestones 2017
      • Emerging Milestones 2017
      • Public Panel Videos
      • Memorandum: Milestones 2017 – Year in Review
      • 2017 Year in Review Brainstorming Workshop
      • Survey Results
      • Milestones 2017 Event Information
      • Milestones 2017 Team
    • Milestones 2016
      • Milestones 2016 Event Information
      • Panel Obeservations
      • Milestones 2016 Team
    • Milestones 2015
      • Moderator’s Introduction
        • Panel Bios
      • Panellists’ Discussion
      • Panellists’ Presentations
      • Panel Audience Q&A
      • Panel Event Videos
      • Community Perspsectives
      • Poster Board Comments
      • Audience Video Interviews
      • 2015 Significant Events – Proposed
      • Year in Review Team
      • Brainstorming Workshops
        • Flip Charts From Brainstorming

Previous Years

Milestones considered significant enough from these years have been added to the Chronology Timeline.

  • 2015
  • 2014
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