Comment 87681

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted April 05, 2013 at 14:44:57 in reply to Comment 87654

The same planning principles have been applied throughout the City of Vancouver proper, which has a population not that different from Hamilton, but with higher rates of growth (603 000 in 2011, 514 000 in 1996).

Outside the downtown, West End, Coal Harbour, False Creek and Yaletown (the peninsula), mixed medium density has been the rule. South shore of False Creek, South Granville, Commercial Drive, west 4th and new developments at UBC are good examples of medium density and mixed use development.

However, the rest of the GVRD, especially in the Fraser Valley, has been sprawl autocentric development. This is an excellent illustration of how principled planning, followed over decades, can make a real difference.

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