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Douglas Todd: Hundreds of quiet East Vancouver side streets upzoned for six-storey apartment blocks

Some residents in the vast Rupert and Renfrew area did not know their pleasant side streets had been upzoned for six- to eight-storey apartment blocks. It calls into question the city of Vancouver's murky "engagement strategy."

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The City of Vancouver has resorted to slick marketing while radically upzoning some pleasant, leafy neighbourhoods in east Vancouver, which taken together are much larger than Stanley Park.

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In the process of upzoning almost 2,600 city lots for six- and eight-storey apartment blocks, council and staff have created a new definition of “low rise” and........

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