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More insanity. Imagine what the economy would be like if people put their money into productive investments that built companies and created jobs, instead of dead money inside a condo tower.
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Mandibular Fiasco posted:More insanity. Imagine what the economy would be like if people put their money into productive investments that built companies and created jobs, instead of dead money inside a condo tower. Excuse me sir, but this is Canada.
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Who wouldn't be excited about cleaning dirty money?
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cowofwar posted:Excuse me sir, but this is Canada. Of course, how foolish of me for thinking rationally. Seriously though, this country is colossally screwed. No wonder the Minister for Haberdashery has finally got religion on pipelines.
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Oh boy! Complete and utter teardowns are now sub $1 million in Vancouver now? $949,000 https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/18992067/1595-E-20TH-AVENUE-Vancouver-British-Columbia-V5N2K7 quote:Quiet location in desirable Kensington-Cedar Cottage neighborhood. Two bedroom bungalow with two bedroom basement suite on a 37.7x66 ft corner lot with RT-10 two family zoning. NB: 3.75 foot easement on west side of property. The house needs lots of work but at this price it's well worth it. Nearby schools: Selkirk Elementary (1750 East 22nd Ave) and Gladstone Secondary (4105 Gladstone Street). Longtime tenants would be happy to stay on. Please give notice for showings. Don't miss this opportunity. I dunno anything about the development industry but with this good location, a corner lot and duplex zoning you'd think some small time developer would be leaping on this? Femtosecond fucked around with this message at 18:14 on May 6, 2018 |
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Femtosecond posted:Oh boy! Complete and utter teardowns are now sub $1 million in Vancouver now? There's gotta be something else wrong with that property. Any gas stations nearby? One lovely picture from an occluded angle screams bad neighbours of some kind, and probably a tenant/squatter dispute based on the remark about the current occupants. Realtors are sleazier than your average used car seller on Kijiji. If you know a friendly Realtor it's always fun to have them look up an ad and read off the private realtor-to-realtor notes. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 18:23 on May 6, 2018 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:There's gotta be something else wrong with that property. Any gas stations nearby? One lovely picture from an occluded angle screams bad neighbours of some kind, and probably a tenant/squatter dispute based on the remark about the current occupants. It's just about the smallest lot you can get, less than 10 feet from its back neighbour and less than 5 from the side neighbour (corner lot).
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Femtosecond posted:Oh boy! Complete and utter teardowns are now sub $1 million in Vancouver now? Yeah, because there's value in that. In any sane city, this is called a called a slum.
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https://twitter.com/joycemurray/status/992811228241235969?s=21 Joyce is on the case!
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cowofwar posted:https://twitter.com/joycemurray/status/992811228241235969?s=21 In other news, Joyce Murray emerges from cave, attends meeting.
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I had a pretty nice thatched hut 300 years ago where I retired after tending the goats.
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gently caress realtors and their hell spawn: http://www.scmp.com/culture/music/article/2144729/who-lil-tay-behind-illusion-nine-year-old-asian-rapper-and-internet quote:The rising internet stars foul-mouthed videos are viewed by millions, but despite her persona as a streetwise Los Angeles gangsta, clues point to her living in Vancouver, with a realtor mother behind the camera quote:Some of Lil Tays videos veer into the downright awkward. One includes a lengthy encounter with notorious Chicago rapper Chief Keef, whose orbit has a reputation for gunplay and violence; a member of his Glo Gang entourage-slash-record-label was shot dead in a 2015 drive-by, and the shooters then ran over and killed a 13-month-old baby as they made their escape. Mantle fucked around with this message at 07:15 on May 7, 2018 |
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Mantle posted:gently caress realtors and their hell spawn: "Whether she is getting in a fight with Bhad Bhabie, aka the Cash-Me-Ouside girl, or hanging with Instagram star Woah Vicky at Coachella music festival, or with rap star Lil Pump (she is littler, for the record), its all the same." Well at least she's in good company.
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Mantle posted:gently caress realtors and their hell spawn: Burn it all to the loving ground
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Here's the original post he's referencing from David Eby: http://davidebymla.ca/news/the-school-tax-increase-on-homes-valued-over-3m-some-factual-information/ Also lol the tax is only actually increasing on $3m+ houses. gently caress those whiny millionaires.
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Taxes are theft and why were there potholes? Minimum wage is too high and why was there a 45 minute line at the Tim Hortons drive thru this morning? My children already graduated, why should my taxes go to schools? Why do the effects of my lovely attitude keep creeping into the bubble i live in? This is an outrage.
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Powershift posted:Taxes are theft and why were there potholes? Minimum wage is too high and why was there a 45 minute line at the Tim Hortons drive thru this morning? My children already graduated, why should my taxes go to schools? Why is there nothing except single family homes in my neighbourhood? I want to downsize my boomer empty nest but there are no condos or townhouses. Also Im late for my protest against zoning changes.
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Vancouver city planners: Oops, we hosed up and knew less than posters in this threadquote:How former Vancouver city planners would have done things differently http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/regrets-they-have-a-few-city-planners-reflect-on-making-vancouver-more-livable-1.4651705 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPbjPOgRtyA UnfortunateSexFart fucked around with this message at 21:26 on May 8, 2018 |
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Vancouver city planners: Oops, we hosed up and knew less than posters in this thread Oh, they have regrets? Their incompetence has us in this mess. These people are horrible and their mea culpa is a disgraceful joke.
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Mandibular Fiasco posted:Oh, they have regrets? Their incompetence has us in this mess. These people are horrible and their mea culpa is a disgraceful joke. Yep. 
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Guys, we can't anticipate all problems. That's why our department is called the reacting department, not the planning depar... oh.
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Nah I don't blame these guys. In the era these planners worked in planning was mostly, as they state, about making the city look nicer. They were concerned about neighbourhood level zoning issues and the transformation of Downtown Vancouver from low rise warehouse and industrial to denser residential. I think it was fair for them to be focused on that. City planners shouldn't have to be that concerned about the movement of global wealth. That should be an issue for the Federal and Provincial governments. These guys really have no powers nor the revenue tools to impact these broad issues and they shouldn't have to concern themselves that much with it. They should be spending their time on making roads safe, making buildings accessible, improving building code, etc. I mean now in the last five years we know and it's become a problem because of inaction by the feds and province in the 90s. The presence of global investment should now influence zoning plans, but only because the Feds and Province still haven't gotten a grasp of this issue. Femtosecond fucked around with this message at 02:03 on May 9, 2018 |
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Femtosecond posted:Nah I don't blame these guys. In the era these planners worked in planning was mostly, as they state, about making the city look nicer. They were concerned about neighbourhood level zoning issues and the transformation of Downtown Vancouver from low rise warehouse and industrial to denser residential. I think it was fair for them to be focused on that. Respectfully disagree. Part of being a planner is being aware of what is needed for your city under various growth models, and being aware of population demand. These planners' job is to anticipate what could possibly happen, and it should have been obvious given the population projections that a different product mix was needed, regardless of capital flow (i.e. the missing middle). They failed at that. While I agree that that the responsibility for global capital flows is outside their personal scope of responsibility, environmental awareness is a requirement. They also did nothing to discourage the politicians (Robertson) from accusing those of us who had issues with this as racists. There was willful ignorance on the part of these people, and now a disaster is upon us, and we have no plan to respond thoughtfully. The fact these people are hitting the media now tells me they are looking to have their guilt in their role in all of this assuaged. They won't get it from me.
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Mantle posted:gently caress realtors and their hell spawn: The ever popular trend of passing off Vancouver as an American city in film.
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Ccs posted:The ever popular trend of passing off Vancouver as an American city in film. Rumble in the Bronx comes to mind. I remember reading an old Jackie Chan interview where he said something to the effect of "originally, I tried to make the movie look it was in New York, but then I just decided to shoot it any old way."
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I heard at the time he wanted to call it rumble in Vancouver, but that could have been just a rumour. Still remember watching them film the hovertank scenes.
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Mandibular Fiasco posted:There was willful ignorance on the part of these people, and now a disaster is upon us, and we have no plan to respond thoughtfully. The fact these people are hitting the media now tells me they are looking to have their guilt in their role in all of this assuaged. They won't get it from me. Yeah I am looking forward to the current Burnaby city planners coming forward in 15-20 years looking for forgiveness for the monstrous situation they are creating right now.
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Mandibular Fiasco posted:Respectfully disagree. Part of being a planner is being aware of what is needed for your city under various growth models, and being aware of population demand. These planners' job is to anticipate what could possibly happen, and it should have been obvious given the population projections that a different product mix was needed, regardless of capital flow (i.e. the missing middle). They failed at that. While I agree that that the responsibility for global capital flows is outside their personal scope of responsibility, environmental awareness is a requirement. They also did nothing to discourage the politicians (Robertson) from accusing those of us who had issues with this as racists. There was willful ignorance on the part of these people, and now a disaster is upon us, and we have no plan to respond thoughtfully. The fact these people are hitting the media now tells me they are looking to have their guilt in their role in all of this assuaged. They won't get it from me. The one person that would have been capable of advising Robertson about anything was the most recent planner, Brent Toderian, not mentioned in this article. He was actually fired from his job for reasons still unknown. It's possible he may have pushed back and created enough friction to become a problem. We don't know. ocrumsprug posted:Yeah I am looking forward to the current Burnaby city planners coming forward in 15-20 years looking for forgiveness for the monstrous situation they are creating right now. While I am ok with giving some of these older Vancouver planners a pass due to having different priorities, the current Burnaby planners are doing terrible work in destroying affordable working class housing in favour of luxury condos and should be ashamed. This is why I could never do this job. The tension between going along with whatever your political masters want in order to save your job and resigning out of principle would be incredibly stressful. Recall for the older Vancouver councillors that they too would have been beholden to their pro development NPA political masters. Looking at that picture of False Creek again, I feel comfortable not holding McAfee and Beasley that responsible for our current situation because they really did need to put the lions share of the Community Amenity Contributions from development land lift toward infrastructure. There was clearly very significant other priorities. When you walk through that North False creek area now you walk along a beautiful seawall and parks the whole way. All of that was brand new infrastructure paid by money from redevelopment. I could imagine there was limited funds leftover to fund subsidized housing. If the Federal government was dumping cash on municipalities and they built condos instead of affordable rental anyway I'd be more critical. Spaxman did work in an environment when the Feds were a willing participant and he did plan for coops and affordable rental. His career was largely over before Expo 86 and this issue really began.
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Yeah the feds cutting funding for actual affordable housing in the 90s played a pretty big role.ocrumsprug posted:Yeah I am looking forward to the current Burnaby city planners coming forward in 15-20 years looking for forgiveness for the monstrous situation they are creating right now. True this. Metrotown already looks Garden City as gently caress, and you would think that whole concept would have been thoroughly debunked in the 60s, but nope.
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https://bossip.com/1640367/welp-fak...n-the-internet/quote:When we found out about this activity last week we had to dismiss her, Jim Lew, director of business development for Pacific Place Group, told Daily Hive via email. Allegedly, Tian used the penthouses and exoctic cars of clients to add to Lil Tays aesthetic. heh
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Femtosecond posted:Now that upper middle class Vancouverites are realizing that they won't have the same lifestyles as their parents they're discovering all sorts of things. Has anyone sent him a copy of Das Kapital yet? He's just about reaching the mid-19th century...
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Has anyone sent him a copy of Das Kapital yet? He's just about reaching the mid-19th century... Hell, Piketty spells it out in easy to understand modern English in Capital in the 21st Century
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Femtosecond posted:Now that upper middle class Vancouverites are realizing that they won't have the same lifestyles as their parents they're discovering all sorts of things. WTF does that word salad tweet even mean? We need new words? This is whats necessary and immediate? This stupid country.
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