Housing advocates protest as Vancouver doubles down on densification plan

The mass prezoning of areas throughout the Broadway and Cambie corridors – Vancouver’s effort to fast-track redevelopment – went to a public hearing last week and triggered another letter from a group of housing practitioners to the government.

What the city calls its Broadway Plan had already attracted controversy, but midsummer, city staff and council doubled down with the release of a 447-page technical report that would expedite development through prezoning. Landowners would no longer have to go through a rezoning application on an individual site, and they’d skip the need for a public hearing or feedback.