The volume of development applications coming into Vancouver City Hall have \u0022overloaded staff operating capacity,\u0022 a city report says
On housing, staff recommend giving top priority to projects proposing social, below-market and supportive housing units, and projects with secured funding from the provincial or federal government.
“There’s been a big disconnect between what the developers thought was going to happen and what we thought was going to happen,” O’Donnell said. However, in many of the other applications coming through the policy inquiry process, developers appear to be proposing non-compliant projects with no apparent public benefit, O’Donnell said.Article content
Vancouver’s previous council approved more rental housing than at any point in recent decades, and they made some big decisions, including the Broadway plan. But no party had a majority, and council was sometimes criticized for a lack of cohesion. Now, ABC Vancouver has a commanding supermajority on council, with seven councillors and the mayor elected in last year’s election.Article content
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