First Nations urban development project to challenge NIMBY Vancouver(theglobeandmail.com) |
First Nations urban development project to challenge NIMBY Vancouver(theglobeandmail.com) |
Secondly, since the Squamish Nation doesn't need to follow a bunch of the typical city rules, they can do away with things like required parking spaces, and build more pedestrian space between towers with smaller footprints, and be open that they don't expect people living here will own cars. If the project and neighbourhood are successful, it could prove to be a pretty interesting counter point to the broadly successful development policies of the city that seem at risk of keeping up with the densification of the region.