Block Parties: Plan and Vision Vancouver

block parties: This proves George Orwell's premise that governments will say one thing while they do the opposite, according to Georgia Asian. Vision Vancouver is proposing city-wide block parties as a means to engage citizens, rather than including people in meaningful discussions on how they want their city to develop over the next 30 years. Meanwhile, the Mayor's Engaged City Task Force is released with great fanfare declaring the virtues of earlier public involvement in the planning process. The Official Development Plan and Regional Context Statement is Vancouver's overarching plan. All of the city's development and land use policies are bundled up into this one document and presented with a plan to Metro Vancouver for approval. It will direct all development in the city of Vancouver for the next 30 years, which presently includes proposals to hand over regional designation of large swaths of the city, yet it is being fast-tracked through the system without public involvement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.