VANCOUVER—In 2019, Vancouver is set to start a new citywide planning process that could change the look and feel of city neighbourhoods – or protect the status quo. The debate over whether single-family neighbourhoods should be further densified is set to heat up again in 2019. ( Jennifer Gauthier / For StarMetro )Some urbanists are looking south to two American jurisdictions that have recently made laws or proposed that single-family zoning be tossed out altogether. On Dec. 7, Minneapolis’ city council approved a citywide plan that included upzoning single-family neighbourhoods to allow duplexes and triplexes, according to the StarTribune. Harland Bartholomew, the American city planner who drafted Vancouver’s first city plan, also worked extensively in the United States.

Source: thestar January 02, 2019 01:30 UTC