But here is a link to the government's page: https://www.landuse.alberta.ca/REGIONAL ... fault.aspx
Statistics: Posted by newsposter — Tue Dec 16, 2014 10:36 am
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http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/ ... story.html
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http://globalnews.ca/news/1375194/vanco ... molitions/
Statistics: Posted by newsposter — Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:03 am
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Older homes are being torn down at a rapid pace on the West Side
BY JOHN MACKIE, VANCOUVER SUN MARCH 23, 2014
Kristin DeRose has only lived in Vancouver for six years. But she has found herself constantly on the move, because the houses she rents keep getting demolished.
“This is the third house I’ve lived in since I moved here that’s going to be torn down,” said DeRose, standing in the living room of a mid-century modern home at 4488 Cambie St.
“One was in Point Grey, at First and Tolmie, the other was at Victoria and 49th. (Those) two we were evicted (from) because they were being torn down — this one we moved in knowing it.”
DeRose is thankful for the relatively low rent she pays for a home that is about to be demolished ($1,800 a month for four bedrooms). But she’s perplexed why perfectly good houses keep getting knocked down.
“I find people (here) just neglect property,” she said. “They just crash through houses and build brand-new houses, constantly.”
Caroline Adderson feels the same way. And she decided to do something about it.
Last year, Adderson started a Facebook page, Vancouver Vanishes — “A lament for, and celebration of, the vanishing character homes in Vancouver.”
The page includes photos of heritage homes that have been torn down, plus mini-profiles (“Address: 3775 West 36th Avenue; Built: 1927; First Owner: George J. Kilpin, Musician, the Capitol Theatre; Status: DEMOLISHED”).
It has proven popular, with 3,277 Facebook “likes.” Now she has started an online petition calling on city council to “save Vancouver’s character houses.” After a month, it’s attracted 2,635 signatures.
But saving old houses in today’s red-hot real estate market is an uphill battle.
Houses in desirable west-side neighbourhoods like Kerrisdale, Point Grey and Dunbar routinely sell for $2 million or more. They are often sold to developers, who knock them down and put up a bigger home that sells for upwards of $4 million.
“And nobody lives in it,” said Adderson, an award-winning writer.
“It’s not an increase in density, it’s not green, and it’s not increasing affordability — the price of the house doubles. Nobody (in Vancouver) can buy it. And then it’s empty, because it’s bought by (overseas) investors, or developers who are building it to attract investors.
“It’s totally altering the neighbourhood, emptying the neighbourhood, everything.”
Many people feel the same way, and have made their feelings heard at City Hall. Council has responded by having staff put together a “heritage action plan” to try to save the city’s dwindling stock of heritage buildings.
Whether it will work is debatable.
Read more at: http://www.vancouversun.com/fight+vanis ... story.html
Statistics: Posted by Admin — Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:02 pm
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March 24, 2014. 2:20 pm • Section: Flood
It’s not bright green buds on trees signalling the beginning of warmer weather in High River this year, but the number of flood-wrecked homes starting to be torn down.
While the piles of construction materials are a sign of progress for families who are eager to rebuild, they’re also a reminder there is plenty of work yet to be done.
Kim Unger, parks planning supervisor for the Town of High River, is working to find out just how many houses there are in the community that are of historical significance to the town, a project side-tracked by the flood.
“A lot of the historical homes have been damaged by the flood waters and in the southwest there is truly no area that was untouched,” Unger said.
Phase 1 of the heritage inventory project, conducted in 2012, identified 20 commercial and residential properties in the downtown area that may have historical significance. Phase 2′s focus is the residential properties west of the downtown core.
Read more at: http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2014/03/ ... age-homes/
Statistics: Posted by Admin — Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:57 pm
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BY CHERYL CHAN, THE PROVINCE MARCH 17, 2014
The twin Tudor-style houses dubbed The Dorothies are getting a new lease on life.
Like many of Vancouver’s original homes, demolition was slated to be the fate of the pair of heritage houses located on 2827 and 2837 W. 43rd Avenue.
But thanks to a public outcry, heritage incentives from city hall, and a developer willing to think outside the box, the twin houses will be saved — moved to a new location two blocks away where they’ll become the centrepiece of a new townhouse development by Trasolini Chetner.
“It was a pretty gargantuan effort,” said Rob Chetner of the work, time and energy it took to make moving day on Monday become a reality.
“It’ll culminate in an exciting spectacle,” he said. “It’s not something you see every day in Vancouver . . . let alone with two twin homes.”
Read the rest here: http://www.theprovince.com/There+place+ ... story.html
Statistics: Posted by Admin — Tue Mar 18, 2014 3:54 pm
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Abigale Subdhan | February 3, 2014 | Last Updated: Feb 3 8:17 PM ET
There is little chance the original occupants of John Irwin House could have imagined what would happen to their dwelling 141 years hence, in particular that it would be perched in mid air, five storeys above solid ground for weeks on end.
And yet that is where the heritage brick house at 21 Grenville Street is now, held up by a thin concrete slab and two pillars that rise up from the slowly developing base of a 50-storey condominium project.
“We’ve had a number of cases over the years where there’s been some pretty nifty ways of keeping buildings up, but they’re generally not hanging over the site in full form,” said Mary MacDonald, manager of Heritage Preservation Services. “It’s pretty dramatic.”
Read more at: http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/02/03 ... -dwelling/
Statistics: Posted by Admin — Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:46 pm
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