*Depth of Field: Film Screening and Community Event at Community Hall, Kitsilano Neighbourhood House
March 21, 2024 from 5pm to 8pm
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- In which Vancouver neighbourhood or other community do you live?
- Grandview-Woodland
- Please tell us which areas of Transition interest you. For example: growing more food/urban agriculture, relocalizing our economy/local currency, Permaculture, transit, energy efficient buildings, the arts, urban homesteading, preserving seed diversity, placemaking, potlucks, outreach, organizing events, community-building, having fun while saving the world, or...
- Density without high rises. Development that really is in keeping with the existing heritage housing stock. Retaining the existing housing stock whenever possible. Reinstating 3rd party appeals. Don't give developers density bonuses in HRAs unless they really are preserving a valuable heritage treasure.
- There's a saying that "Transition is not a spectator sport". It's true! Village Vancouver runs on people power, and engaging in activities and projects together helps us accomplish more. Which groups, networks, neighbourhood villages, or projects do you think you might be interested in getting involved with? And what knowledge, skills, resources or other assets can you bring to the mix? (Don't be bashful!)
- I expect to be quite involved in the Grandview Community Plan process.
- What would you like to see improved in Vancouver or in your community regarding sustainability or resiliency? Do you have an idea for a new Transition project or activity?
- I'd like to see more two or three storey buildings along Commercial Drive in locations that are now just one storey. Apartments upstairs. This would increase density and bring more shoppers to the struggling independent businesses on the Drive and make them more viable.
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*Depth of Field: Film Screening and Community Event at Community Hall, Kitsilano Neighbourhood House
March 21, 2024 from 5pm to 8pm
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Welcome, Penny!
The Village is the softer, community-building side of a political reawakening and reengagement that has been missing in Vancouver for decades. We cannot succeed in advocating for Third Party Appeals if "third parties" (meaning all the rest of us, the 99+%) don't even know or trust each other.
So, we build community gardens together, generally battling City Hall at every turn even for that, and perhaps realize what we can do together without and despite them. Potlucks, seed-sharing, beekeeping circles, community currencies, and social enterprise follow, and it's empowering.
Then, when the VIllage gets involved in community planning, it does so with such deep roots that no maelstrom from City Hall can tear them out.
That is at least the hope, and speaking of which, WE NEED YOU THIS COMING MONDAY! Your neighbour to the west, Mount Pleasant, is battling for its life to defend its new community plan. We are taking planning into our own hands despite efforts to hi-jack it, and are holding a community forum with UBC's Patrick Condon, SFU's Lewis Villegas (a Mount Plesant resident), and former City planner Jim Lehto, to launch a revolution in community-based and neighbourhood-centred planning, turning back the clock to a time before debt-based global finance and glass and steel towers.
We want you, and all your friends there. We'll be talking about how community planning processes can be inoculated and vigorously defended. Click here to see more details: Monday night at 6:45, St Patrick's Church, 13th and Main.
Meanwhile, after a year of Villager lobbying against every possible City obstacle, Woodland Park is getting closer to having a new community collaborative food garden.
Lots happening, and it's so good to hear you are involved in the GW community planning process. Hope to see you Monday!