Archive - Jan 2008

Century Group sponsored a lecture for the Simon Fraser University City Program featuring world renowned planner and architect Andres Duany.

Duany, co-founder of the New Urbanist Movement did not disappoint. He surprisingly lashed out at the sprawl in Metro Vancouver and he noted that he could only see "one example of good architecture in every 400 homes."

The Provincial Government announced a $14 billion transit package today. Details are available at the BC Gov Website. A pdf Overview is attached below.

We are barely in to the New Year yet I see a clear frontrunner for the lame idea of the year award.

This paper and the South Delta Leader both published net outcomes from a Delta Chamber of Commerce survey regarding support for the Tsawwasen Golf Course expansion. In the survey, the majority of Chamber members supported the idea of the golf course expansion. In a recent letter to the editor at the Leader, Liz Gough suggested that the community should boycott businesses that support the idea of the Shato Holdings Golf Course expansion project. She went on to suggest that the community should further boycott these businesses based on the idea that the Chamber generically supports the idea of port expansion.