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626 votes
This idea is not included in the Draft Greenest City Action Plan, but it is supported in principle. Convened a high speed rail summit in July 2010 to discuss this proposal
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The City supports Metro Vancouver’s plans to ban food scraps from the incinerator and landfills by 2015. The City will collaborate with Metro Vancouver to develop and implement a plan to ensure apartments, condos, businesses and institutions have access to food scraps collection programs before the ban comes into effect.
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599 votes
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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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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394 votes
An exciting idea!
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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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We already have the infrastructure there to feed solar power into the grid - just put solar cells on all lamp posts. High sun days would provide excess power above that needed to run the light all night, and low sun days would would mean drawing from the grid, but the only costs involved to set this up would be the cells themselves.
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10 votes
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Great idea! The separated bike lanes and walkable city are the carrot, but you also need a stick to get people out of their cars. The cost of leaving your car on public space that could be used for way more useful things (like pocket parks, dedicated transit lanes and extra sidewalk) needs to be much more in line with the prices charged in Europe.
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Outside City jurisdiction. It would be nice to relax these restrictions, but they do serve a purpose — relaxing them is only feasible when and where there is sufficient capacity on transit vehicles. Providing more abundant and more secure bicyle parking at transit hubs will play a bigger part in cycle-transit integration.
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Even within the permitted times I find it unpleasant to take my bike on Skytrain. Other passengers are rude and aggressive about your bike 'being in their way', and I've been sworn at more than once, and threatened too (by an someone in a crowd of people trying to push onto the carriage as I tried to get off). I don't use Skytrain if I can avoid it.
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15 votes
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This is such a good idea. It should start with Parks Board concessions. I biked past Third Beach this morning and it's covered in disposable paper and plastic cups.
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11 votes
Several years ago the City devleoped water saver kits to help people conserve water. Look for clothes line kits to be ready for distribution in 2011.
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I haven't used a drier to dry my clothes in the 12 years I've lived in Vancouver (8 in an apartment). It doesn't rain every day, even in the winter, and you can always put them on a drying rack indoors to finish off.
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133 votes
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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Wow! Imagine what Granville Island would be like if the car drivers weren't constantly honking their horns and shouting at you to get out of the way! Sadly, it's owned by Canada Mortgage and Housing and I'm not sure how much influence the City has over what goes on there. I contacted CMHC (who are not based in Vancouver) about the lack of bike parking spaces there in the summer, and it was clear from their reply that they don't understand.
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The draft Greenest City Action Plan will include directions to advance parking policies that encourage a reduction in vehicle ownership and driving, support sustainable transportation choices, and increase housing affordability near transit. Better management of curbside parking will help to reduce cruising and congestion caused by drivers searching for an available space. Redesigning the residential parking permit program will address parking spillover concerns associated with off-street reductions and better reflect actual street space value.
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Great idea. I can't see why people should be allowed to leave their unused private property on public land for free. That space should be available for street hockey, yard sales, benches. If someone wants to use it to store their car when their not using it to drive around, then they should pay.
