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Sep 2024
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VREP #437 | Metro Vancouver Responds to ...

Adam and Matt Scalena
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The BC provincial government stunned observers late last year when it legislated all BC municipalities change zoning regulations to permit multiplexes on single family lots by June 30, 2024. The provincial order was clear. But implementation has been another thing altogether. Architect Tara Gronlund joins Adam & Matt to discuss how different municipalities around Metro Vancouver have responded to this directive from on high. Which municipalities have dramatically upped what can be built on single family lots? Where has the directive had basically no impact? And how will these municipal zoning changes potentially change the course of the region for decades to come? The devil, as they say, is in the details, so listen up!

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