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Consideration of ways to incentivise and encourage lower footprint dining are included in the plan.
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The restaurants which are starting up in these areas are done so by people who have the ability to overcome market barriers to entry. Barriers which tend to force the same product with slight differentiation and exclude business which the market deems 'too radical'. It also excludes large groups of people who don't have the ability to overcome these barriers because they don't know the right people and can't get through the red tape, or because they can't secure funding. When I talk about giving economic incentives to these new businesses, what I'm really talking about a giving a fair chance to these marginalized products and people to compete in Vancouver's market.
If the companies already in place are worried about losing customers to competition, they'll learn pretty quickly to green up their menus so that clients have a reason to stay - which would also be a desirable effect. Generally speaking though, how likely is it that people who are going to these places to eat meat are going to start going to a vegan restaurant instead? There's probably not going to be a huge amount of shift but the choice is there for them, and the availability is there for the veggie community whom already exist and become tapped as a consumer base.
On another note, McDonalds is one of the top restaurants because it attained extremely artificially low prices by externalizing all its costs. Read any research done on market practices by McDonalds, check out the movie 'McLibel', get a copy of their nutritional breakdown the next time you order a happy meal. There is zero quality there, and the vast majority of their practices contribute to environmental, social, cultural and even economic breakdown on a global scale. Is that really the type of business we should be encouraging in Vancouver?
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If you think Mcdonalds is healthy at all you need to check your facts. The point of this is to encourage growth in green industries and create jobs - which includes entertainment and dining. Economic incentives mitigating start-up costs of new restaurants in these areas would not only encourage investment in these enterprises, but also help to eliminate one of the barriers (finance) to breaking into green commercial business.
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Included in the Draft Greenest City Action Plan.
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This is acknowledged as a key strategy to better integrate cycling and transit. In 07/2009 the City committed some funding for secure parking facilities at Broadway-City Hall and Olympic Village Canada Line stations. The City has also conducted a feasibility study for a downtown bike centre.
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An ongoing process. Many of the City’s recent initiatives (e.g. downtown separated bike lane trial, additional traffic calming on existing routes) work towards this vision. The draft Greenest City action plan will support this idea, and include directions to help inform the upcoming transportation plan update and new active transportation plan.
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Low footprint food choices are not the same as vegan food choices in all cases, the analysis is more complex than this. Generally a low footprint diet is local, seasonal food, and limits consumption of red meat, dairy, and some grains. Low footprint food choices are included in the draft Greenest City Action Plan and will be discussed through community engagement activities.
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The City has a procurement policy covering our own procurement choices that includes many of these issues; it is now being implemented throughout City operations. http://vancouver.ca/policy_pdf/AF01401.pdf
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Implementation of the City’s streetcar plan (http://vancouver.ca/streetcar) might help to enable this, by providing dramatically improved transit service to Granville Island.
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Good idea! In the past few years, the City has installed 8 of 16 self-cleaning toilets as part of its street furniture contract with CBS-Decaux, and is looking for additional locations. (As an aside, locating them can be challenging due to limited public sidewalk space, a lack of utility connections, and concerns from adjacent businesses.) New public restrooms have also been installed as part of recent park upgrades. There is also a huge opportunity and need at transit interchanges, but this is outside the City’s jurisdiction — Vancouver has repeatedly requested (and will continue to ask) that TransLink install restrooms in its rapid transit stations.
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