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Council – Sept 15, 2025
We had our now-twice-annual Council Meeting in Queensborough, at the always-active Queensborough Community Centre. Items related to the start of our 2026 Budget process dominated our full agenda. However, we started with a bit of Unfinished Business from previous meetings interruptus: Riverfront Vison Update – Westminster Pier Park to Sapperton Landing Park Submitted by Councillor […]
Council – August 25, 2025 (part 2)
Following last post, here is Part 2 of my long report from the Council meeting this week,. the “work we got done” part, starting with the items we approves On Consent: 22nd Street Station Area: Planning and Development Department Work Plan for Implementation of the reGENERATE Vision The 22nd street Station area continues to be […]
Council – August 25, 2025 (part 1)
Our Council meeting on Monday had a Back-to-School feel after our short summer break. The late august meeting always is a strange one, feels more like getting a few things out of the way before the real works starts in earnest in September, but we actually had a lengthy agenda and lots of good discussion […]
Our City Our Homes (Non-market, etc.)
As I mentioned when I started this series on our OCP updates, the provincial legislation we are trying to catch up to is almost exclusively about market housing. This means it is working to accelerate the approval and development of primarily strata ownership and purpose-built market rental – the houses over on the right side […]
Our City Our Homes (Missing Middle)
I started last post talking about specific changes the City is looking at to comply with Provincial housing regulation and our Housing Accelerator Fund commitments to the federal government. This post covers housing changes outside of the Transit Oriented Development areas. *note, there are some terms I’m going to use here that may not align […]
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Caveat lector
This is a blog. A dying media, but indulge me. I this in 2010 when blogging was something people did. I started writing about things going on in New Westminster and my volunteer work with the New West Environmental Partners under the title “GreenNewWest”. I then realized this was probably confusing to people because I […]
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Happenings
The spring-summer transition is a busy time, rivaling only September in the calendar challenges in this job. Besides the work, which also ramps up at this time, there are a lot of community events to take part in. It is really hard to report out on it all.
March ’25
March was a busy month, even with a big Spring Break in the middle. here are a few things that kept me busy in March outside of the regular Council schedule:
February ’25
I haven’t done one of these posts in a while. I sometimes write about community events in my Newsletter (you can subscribe here), but event happen faster than I can post about. Here are a few fun things that happened in the community in February!
John
Like many of you, I am saddened by John Horgan only getting 65 years. He filled them with meaning and influence, but it doesn’t seem enough for anyone, never mind someone who put so much into the people around him. He was a man of principle and natural leadership. He brought meaningful change to the […]
This Happened – September
I haven’t done one of these in a while, doing more of these types of community-happenings updates on my newsletter (subscribe here). But I am iterating how I use my communications channels with the community, and as will sound familiar to regular readers (Hi Mom!) I am working on how to keep loving, hopeful and […]