Have you seen the proposed Official Community Plan for Burnaby? I would say it could go further at densifying neighourhoods near transit, but its clear that most of the city will become zoned for apartments and townhomes.

This doesn’t just address the design bottleneck. Since it is a standard, permitting is super fast to approve. Construction will be quicker since each home will be made of standard components. The hope is that much of the construction can be done off site with a quicker assembly done on site.

Funding may be easier to get if the are able to negotiate with the builder. Say, the original owner gets a new unit + lump sum and the builder gets to sell the other units to pay off the costs of construction.

Ironically, Plexus currently crashes and won’t open on GrapheneOS. Both 2.0.3 on F-Droid and 2.0.6 on IzzyOnDroid.

I tend to avoid stacking primary tags, like shop. I would use shop=sports combined with sports=surf;skate.

If you are in to urbanism, checkout:

• https://video.canadiancivil.com/accounts/ohtheurbanity/
• https://video.canadiancivil.com/accounts/shifter
• https://video.canadiancivil.com/accounts/paige/

They all seem to post simultaneously with here as on YouTube.

Your garden looks beautiful

The neighbourhood rats ate nearly all my strawberries the last two years so this year I transplanted them into hanging baskets. I see lots of berries growing so I am crossing my fingers we get to eat some this year!

And Yet It Moves https://store.steampowered.com/app/18700/And_Yet_It_Moves/

I had contributed before but ultimately I don’t find it that useful because the app is incomplete. The concept is valuable and I like the evaluation visualization, but incomplete or incorrect data make it much less useful.

Only the latest “evaluation” of an app is saved. It was very common for me to reopen Sapio only to discover someone had assigned a different evaluation from the one I had given and my evaluation was gone.

The user should be able to add a comment saying which features don’t work. Just saying “Some features do not work” is not that helpful. Some users may have tested an app more thoroughly than others and so can provide details about specific parts of the app that do or do not work.

I have relied on completely degoogled android for many years now (first LineageOS and then GrapheneOS) but I almost didn’t even try because I didn’t know if my apps would work. A database like this would have been very useful at the time. Hopefully it can be made even better.

Thanks for your comment, I agree with you that generalities are harmful (and often lazy thinking).

If I understand what you are saying, that’s not what I meant. I don’t intend to say all landlords are bad people, but that landlordism itself is bad. It is not possible for there to be a good landlord because the relationship that must exist between a landlord and renter is exploitative and harmful.

The behaviour of the owners is disgusting. There is no such thing as a good landlord.

“Everyone deserves a safe place to live,” Vlietstra said. “I believe that is a basic human right: a safe place to live, that you can call home and not fear it’s going to burn down or people are going to break in.”

We lost our feijoa this year even though we covered and lightly heated them. They had survived colder winters but I think this time the temperature dropped too suddenly.

We lost Chilean guava last year.

I am not willing to try any more zone 8 plants in Vancouver but I haven’t figured out what to replace them with.

On that note, what are everyone’s favourite fruit trees/shrubs to grow in the Lower Mainland? We have figs, Italian plums, blueberries, and kiwi berries. I am considering adding pears or mulberries.

Yes this is my biggest complaint of the ecosystem. Many games are difficult to play with the controller even if they are verified. For one: I wish there was an easier way to change the joystick acceleration curve for each game.

I use an Electra Cruiser as my commuter.

It is very comfortable and easy to ride. It has a really nice low gear so I just take my time going up hills.

Their reception in urban areas is great (but not excellent). Many of their plans now include Nationwide which means they piggy back off other carriers for areas where they don’t provide their own service.

I have been with them for more than a decade because their value can’t be beat.

The biggest negative for me is their customer service over the phone. Their operators seem to stumble at doing anything and have mediocre English skills. I try to do everything via their website.

All the trolley bus routes were originally streetcar routes built out a century ago. Tbh I’m not aware of them ever installing new trolley bus routes.

Trolley lines are going to be expensive to install and maintain. Even without fast chargers they still need similar equipment to convert to DC for the trolley wires.

A quick search gave me a TransLink report which probably has some good details: https://www.translink.ca/-/media/translink/documents/about-translink/policies/translink_low_carbon_fleet_transition_plan_2020_02_24.pdf

Ultimately a waste of police resources.

I have been waiting for this since they hinted at it months ago and I am happy with what I see. The minimum zoning rules are solid.

With regards to the removal of public hearings for spot rezonings that match the community plan, and requirement that community plans reflect the 20 year need for housing - I hope these are as impactful as I understand them to be. I hope to see a lot more density being built, more quickly.

Helen Lui has been hitting it out of the park with her recent articles. She is a good one to follow on Twitter for this type of stuff, too.

Love it. This was one of my fav games of my childhood. I only finally beat it after I came back to it as an adult so I can relate to the scene in this photo.

I still know so many of the hidden lives and power ups.