Vancouver's planning system be like

Meiszner asked "how urgent" seawall climate adaptation is. Staff: must prep for sea level rise, & already seeing unpredictable storms; "it is urgent to address both of those things by building our infrastructure". Meiszner and ABC still voted against it www.youtube.com/live…

A Michael Scott moment from Vancouver 's mayor: Ken Sim: "I'm just basing it on my own background and how I feel..." Reporter: "Hold on. You're basing this on a feeling, not because you've crunched any numbers?" Sim: "No no. Look. It's not my job to crunch numbers."

Planning staff's housing update to council is depressing: -the Provincial targets are so low they're harming housing action, since they're barely above the status quo -staff have no sense of urgency, more interested in patting themselves on the back and sucking up to council

While out for a walk my dog said, "There is overwhelming evidence Vancouver has a huge shortage of housing, which drives our crisis of unaffordability. We have a moral obligation to build enough housing for today and tomorrow!" Then he gave me one of his signature licks