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by solson4 1528 days ago
It looks like this could change soon with the city allowing “metroplexs” everywhere in city limits[1]. It’s not law yet, but the city has been doing a lot of upzoning, so we’ll see.

1. https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-fumano-the-e...

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It's definitely, definitely not going to happen soon.

The Vancouver Plan needs to be approved, then an Official Development Plan, then neighbourhood plans, then actual rezonings. Expect 10+ years, if it happens at all; Vancouver has a very poor record with these sorts of city-wide plans. From a 1992 article I found in the archives a while back:

"no city council has ever accepted any of the half-dozen attempts at developing a city plan"

https://twitter.com/GRIDSVancouver/status/106689301711663104...

Fantastic!