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The City has supported projects that have voluntarily unbundled parking (e.g. Spectrum), and is actively working to gain authority to require unbundling in new development — this requires changes to Provincial legislation. In 2008, the City proposed the Unbundled Parking Resolution to give BC municipalities the authority to require unbundling in new development. This was passed by the Union of BC Municipalities. Provincial response to date: The Ministry of Community Development will review the proposal and refer the issue to the Development Finance Review Committee for discussion.
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Included in the Draft Greenest City Action Plan.
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Requires support from TransLink. The City will continue to support this idea, through measures including secured rights-of-way (e.g. the centre median on 1st Avenue near the Olympic Village). The recent Olympic Line streetcar demonstration was very successful and helps make the business case for this project.
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The draft Greenest City Action Plan will discuss this in a variety of ways.
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This is an evolutionary process. The City of Vancouver is already considered a North American leader in this regard. Current and future plans and projects (e.g. Cambie Corridor Planning Program) will continue to embrace this ideal.
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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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The Rediscover Granville program was a big success in 2009, and the City will be looking to continue and build upon this work in future years. More broadly, the draft Greenest City plan will include directions to explore pedestrian-only and pedestrian-priority streets in the downtown core. Potential locations will be identified at a later date (e.g. as part of the transportation plan update).
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/currentplanning/granvilleredesign/rediscover/
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I concur. Pedestrian/biking oriented streets (but not car exclusive) are common in Europe. They allow access to vehicles for residential/delivery use, but remove temporary parking and hand that space back to local businesses and clients.
Think of Yaletown; let the locals, cabs, and trucks putter through infrequently at 5kph or less, yielding to people, and remove all street parking (there are massive parkades at either edge of Yaletown). Make that space patio/bike path, etc.
Next, link these areas up so that cross-town venturing people have the option to avoid traffic completely on their journeys. This will increase biking and walking. Say something like Hamilton or Homer end to end, and Robson. Why does one of the heaviest foot traffic regions on the continent hand over four lanes for barely mobile cars with loud stereos?
