Vancouver needs the courage to let more neighbourhoods evolve

Vancouver needs the courage to let more neighbourhoods evolve

The anxiety surrounding the City of Vancouver’s Villages Plan says far more about the long-standing discomfort with change among some residents — and among more traditional voices in local urban planning circles accustomed to older and more conservative growth models — than it does about the proposal itself. An early form of this concept of creating new mixed-use commercial and residential hubs with low-rise density was first outlined in the 202…