The Villages Plan aims to rezone 17 specific single-family neighborhoods across Vancouver to allow four-to-six-storey mixed-use buildings. The policy attempts to create European-style, walkable hubs with local shops on ground floors and housing above, but has sparked fierce debate.
“I think part of the motivation for so many people to want to speak on this is the idea that this might be the last public hearing of it’s kind with the way that things are changing in British Columbia and with the Vancouver charter and with the way city counsel’s basically going to just get to approve these things without the public hearings…”
