JERICHO COALITION
Dear supporters,
We at the Jericho Coalition support affordable, low- to mid-rise, family-friendly, environmentally sustainable, and livable communities, and therefore support the objectives of the Broadway Plan Protest Rally next Saturday at 1 p.m. north of Vancouver City Hall.
The ill-conceived Broadway Plan, approved in 2022, created the current “developer free-for-all.” The previous council ignored the many former planners, urban designers, and architects who advised against the Broadway Plan. These professionals foresaw that the plan would result in wholesale demolitions and displacement of thousands of tenants throughout Kitsilano, Fairview, Fairview Slopes, and Mount Pleasant— neighbourhoods which provide much of our city’s stable, moderately affordable, largely low-rise rental housing. Under the Broadway Plan, that low-rise rental housing neighbourhood character will be destroyed by the random placement of 20 storey towers throughout the 500 blocks from 1st to 16th Avenue, and from Clark Drive to Arbutus Street. 20 storey towers, permitted under The Broadway Plan, is the only density solution the City is looking at under this Council.
If left unchecked, the Broadway Plan’s negative social, economic, and environmental impacts will affect Vancouver communities well beyond the neighbourhoods along the Broadway corridor. For example, if the subway extension from Arbutus Street to UBC is built, the Broadway Plan will extend through Kitsilano and Point Grey to UBC.
Please read and listen to the rally announcements below:
CKNW interview with Mike Smyth about the Broadway Plan Protest Rally
For an in-depth prophetic critique of the Broadway Plan, read a 2022 article by Ralph Segal, former Chief City Urban Designer, Planner, and Architect and an online post by Patrick Condon, UBC Architecture.
With the City severely limiting opportunities for public engagement in the densification of our city, we are left with no choice but to
RAISE OUR VOICES TOGETHER AND PROTEST!
Join us at the rally next Saturday, Nov. 23rd, at 1 p.m.
Thanks,
Jericho Coalition