After two days of public hearings, Vancouver city council has voted to rezone the majority of the city to enable duplex use in single-family home neighbourhoods. The decision, approved in the final city council meeting of Gregor Robertson's decade-long tenure as mayor of Vancouver, is also one of his most sweeping policies. Under the rezoning, duplexes — houses divided into two apartments, with a separate entrance for each — are now legal in 99 per cent of all single-family neighbourhoods in Vancouver. Reimer compared many of the concerns about the rezoning to those expressed before Vancouver began allowing laneway homes. She also attempted to introduce a motion to pass the decision to Vancouver's next city council.

Source: CBC News September 20, 2018 03:10 UTC