The latest threat to neighbourhood character: Young children.
Also: Paying people to speak at public hearings, selling off school board land, staffing the mayor’s office, banning Hookah shops, developing Coquitlam and Burnaby.
Links

* Vancouver graffiti for climate change action (inspiration for the song Heat Dome)
* Dan Fumano: How a Vancouver neighbourhood fought, and defeated, a daycare
* Dan Fumano: Vancouver parents desperate for daycare slam city hall rejection
* Dan Fumano: Vancouver councillors promise action after daycare’s rejection
* Rental housing tower approval rescinded after developer paid supporters in public hearing
* Vancouver School Board tells judge it is considering selling a prime piece of land – The Globe and Mail
* New staff at the Mayor’s Office
* A look at who’s who in Ken Sim’s office
* Vancouver bylaw official tries to close hookah shops – Retail & Manufacturing
* Era of building single-family home neighbourhoods is over: Coquitlam mayor
* Coquitlam should build ‘conventional’ townhomes: councillor
* Why Burnaby Decided to Develop Its Own Housing | The Tyee
* This Pride anthem was written in Vancouver — inspired by a local landmark | CBC News