Questions of interest to ARCA members:
1) Might the Making Room initiative best be described as a finely tuned policy planning process? How might it bring short or long-term housing issues into balance in Vancouver?
2) Or, is the proposal an attempt to rezone Vancouver by avoiding existing policies?
3) How and why should community groups be excluded from initial consultation?
4) How and why are housing issues so inflexible that elected representatives exclusively are entitled to change urban zoning policies without involving voters and/or assessing costs, risks and benefits?
5) In the event the housing issue is viewed as complex beyond solution, why has Council allowed it to develop beyond the point of community action?
Informal discussions with other citizens may disclose similar reservations. We may ask if there’s a suspicion that elected councils view community consultation as an impediment in solving Vancouver’s housing problems?
We suggest asking questions one (1) to five (5) to elicit more workable information in the forthcoming choice of election candidates.
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