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CTV News
10-07-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Vancouver reducing speed limit to 30 km/h on residential streets
A speed limit sign is seen in Vancouver on Friday, June 18, 2021. VANCOUVER, B.C. – It was a unanimous decision from an at-times divided Vancouver city council. On Wednesday, councillors voted to drop the speed limit on what the city calls 'minor' streets to 30 km/h. Officials said lowering the speed limit from 50 km/h to 30 km/h has been shown to greatly reduce pedestrian fatality rates. 'The stats are just overwhelmingly positive if there's an accident at lower speeds,' said Mayor Ken Sim on Wednesday. The plan will be phased in, starting with signs being put up in 25 neighbourhoods. 'We're a data-based administration and we look at the data,' Sim said. 'We have a lot of different examples around the world where they slowed down the speed limit in residential neighbourhoods – they become safer.' Council has also removed public consultation for speed humps – given the lack of pushback whenever they are proposed in a neighbourhood. 'Residents are still going to be informed when there are speed humps planned for their community,' said OneCity Coun. Lucy Maloney. 'Usually we find residents are pretty happy to have speed humps because it stops people from running through their neighbourhoods at speed.' The city said it will not enforce the decreased speed limit until signs are put up – and that process is expected to take months.
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
These Vancouver neighbourhoods could be next up for the 'Broadway plan' treatment
On Tuesday, Vancouver city council will vote whether or not to approve long-term plans to add significant density to two east Vancouver neighbourhoods near the Renfrew and Rupert SkyTrain stations. The Rupert and Renfrew Station Area Plan is a transit-oriented plan similar in scope to the much-discussed Broadway plan. City staff estimate the plan would add nearly 19,000 residents to the current 31,000 by 2050 — a 61% increase. It would bring 8,000 additional jobs and add another 10,000 homes, nearly doubling the amount of housing in the area. 'Investment priorities have been identified for the next 10-year period and are estimated to cost (approximately) $1.2 billion (in 2024 dollars),' Neil Hrushowy, general manager of planning, wrote in the recommendations to council. The area covered by the proposed plan runs from the southern end of Hastings Sunrise, starting at Parker St. to E. 27th in Renfrew-Collingwood. East-west, it runs from Boundary Road to Kamloops St., one block east of Nanaimo St. Most of the land covered by the plan is currently single-family housing, low-density commercial or light industry. In keeping with the Broadway plan and the province's transit-oriented development legislation, the highest densities will be closest to the Renfrew and Rupert SkyTrain stations. Existing commercial and industrial land in the area, including those closest to SkyTrain stations, will remain non-residential. Additional employment would be supported by accommodating a wider range of commercial and industrial uses on these lands, and in mixed-use developments along major streets like E. Broadway, Renfrew and Rupert. Similar to the Broadway plan, the plan envisions four key land use types: Rapid transit areas: Towers up to 45 storeys close to SkyTrain stations Villages: Four to six storey mixed-use buildings at key intersections, like Renfrew and E. 1st or Nanaimo and E. Broadway Multiplex areas: The remaining residential areas would also include options for small-scale businesses like corner stores or shops Employment lands: Office, labs, hotels, light industry (eg: film studios, warehouses) and big box stores near SkyTrain stations and along Still Creek There are also plans to develop the site of the former B.C. Liquor warehouse at E. Broadway and Rupert. The site is owned by the First-Nations-owned MST Development Corporation in partnership with Aquilini Investment Group. Early plans put forward for public discussion in fall 2024 showed nearly a dozen towers on the site, some as high as 60 storeys. They included a mixture of residential, retail, office and industrial space as well as child care, affordable housing and public spaces. The site is one of 15 properties designated as 'unique sites' in the plan, where larger sites that deliver a 'significant public asset' could receive special accommodations. Other sites include the First Avenue Marketplace shopping mall, the Akali Singh Sikh Society Gurudwara and Skeena Terrace, where over 19,000 new social housing units have been proposed. The plan also calls for enhancing Still Creek, one of the last salmon-bearing streams in Vancouver. 'Widening and enhancing the Still Creek corridor is critical for managing flood risk resulting from increased development and climate change,' Hrushowy wrote. Much of the existing commercial and industrial land around Still Creek is built on a floodplain, according to the report. The plan also includes an option to expand the creek enhancement into a larger restoration project that could see an ecological corridor running from the Renfrew Ravine at Renfrew and 27th St., through Still Creek and north to Skeena and E. 1st. It also includes additional child care spaces, new artist studios and workspaces, and expanding Renfrew Community Centre, Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House and the local firehall. More than 1,900 new social housing units being proposed for this east Vancouver neighbourhood 'This is just the beginning': First Nations' real estate megaprojects game-changing for Metro Vancouve @njgriffiths ngriffiths@
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
City greenlights more funds for Vancouver Aquatic Centre renovation
Vancouver city council has unanimously approved the park board's request for additional funding to renovate the Vancouver Aquatic Centre. As CBC's Michelle Gomez reports, some swimmers are not happy about the changes.
CTV News
18-06-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Council votes to rename Vancouver street honouring architect of racist historical policies
Vancouver city council has voted to rename Trutch Street, due to its namesake's history of enacting racist policies harmful to Indigenous people.
Global News
17-06-2025
- Politics
- Global News
Vancouver's Trutch Street to officially change to šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm
Vancouver City Council is set to vote on Tuesday on adopting a new Musqueam name for Trutch Street in Kitsilano. The street is named after Joseph Trutch, B.C.'s first lieutenant-governor whose policies inflicted harm on First Nations people. City councillors asked the Musqueam Indian Band to choose a replacement after voting to rename the street in 2021. The Nation gifted the name šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm, which is Musqueamview in the Musqueam Indian Band's hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language. 1:58 Vandals put 'Truth' in Trutch Street ahead of official name change Trutch Street runs between 18th and 1st Avenues on the city's west side in the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam people. Story continues below advertisement Trutch, who arrived in the province in 1859 and became B.C.'s chief commissioner of land and works in the 1860s, was considered an extreme racist. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy According to the Musqueam Indian Band, Trutch was openly hostile to First Nations, denied the existence of Aboriginal rights, and did not recognize previously established Indian Reserves, resulting in reserves shrinking throughout the province. The Musqueamview name will debut on the street on June 20.
