1.   Grandview-Woodland Links

• Britannia Community Services Centre

  • September 2011:   Britannia Strategic Master Plan (8 MB, 51 pages)

• Commercial Drive Business Improvement Association

  • Commercial Drive Newsletters (published quarterly)

• Grandview-Woodland Community Policing Centre

  • "Commercial Drive Community Survey 2007" by Eileen Mosca and Valerie Spicer.   Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies (ICURS) with cooperation of the Grandview-Woodland Community Policing Centre.   April 2008.   56 pages.   2.1MB.

• Grandview Heritage Group (celebrates the built, natural and cultural heritage of Grandview-Woodland)

• The Kettle Friendship Society

• MOSAIC — Multilingual Orientation Services Association for Immigrant Communities

• "Stop the Stink" Facebook page (about odours from the West Coast Reduction rendering plant)

• Timeline:   Saving The York Theatre

• Car-Free Commercial Drive Festival (in June)

• Parade of the Lost Souls (in October)

• Eastside Culture Crawl (in November)

• Commercial Drive — Live! (blog by Steve Duncan)

• Britannia Neighbours (volunteer organization involved with Mosaic Creek Park, Napier Square Greenway)

• Grandview-Woodland Food Connection (who create grassroots initiatives to address food security and justice issues)

2.   City of Vancouver Links

• Grandview-Woodland CommunityWebPages

  • Grandview-Woodland Community Profile

    • Major projects and construction in Grandview-Woodland

    • Grandview-Woodland in VanMap (Internet Explorer only)

• Community Services

  • Development Services

    • Zoning and development by-laws, policies and guidelines

      • By-laws etc applicable across the City of Vancouver including Grandview-Woodland (e.g., RM-4 & RM-4N, RT-5 & RT-5N, C2, C-2C, and C-3A)

      • Guidelines specific to Grandview-Woodland (e.g., Britannia/Woodland RM-4 & RM-4N, Broadway Station Area RM-4 & RM-4N, Broadway/Commercial C-2C, and Broadway/Commercial C-3A)

    • Details of development applications in City of Vancouver

  • Planning Department (particular sites)

    • Details of rezoning applications in City of Vancouver

    • Urban Design Panel (advises on some rezoning applications plus significant development applications to be reviewed by Director of Planning and Development Permit Board)

    • Development Permit Board (reviews major development applications)

  • Planning Department (particular geographical areas)

    • Community Plans

      • Mount Pleasant Community Planning Program (west of Grandview-Woodland)

      • Next Community Plans

        • December 2011:   Community Plans "General Terms of Reference" document

        • Grandview-Woodland Community Plan

          • Dec 2011–Spring 2012:   "Grandview-Woodland Terms of Reference Workbook" (in development)

          • GWAC web page on Grandview-Woodland Community Plan

    • CityPlan Home Page

      • Hastings–Sunrise CityPlan Committee (east of Grandview-Woodland)

      • Kensington–Cedar Cottage CityPlan Committee (south of Grandview-Woodland)

    • Eastern Core (centred on False Creek Flats, west of Grandview-Woodland)

      • Fall 2011:   Eastern Core Strategy

        • Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts Studies

          • 11 June 2010:   Report:   "Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts Study" (passed by Council)

          • 26 July 2011:   Report:   "Viaducts and False Creek Flats Planning: Eastern Core Strategy" (passed by Council)

      • 30 October 2008:   Project Summary Report:   "False Creek Flats Rail Corridor Strategy" (includes pages about the Malkin Connector [page 17] and realignment of the Central Valley Greenway at Clark Drive [page 23])

  • Social Development

    • Non-market housing in Grandview-Woodland

• Engineering Department

  • Traffic calming in City of Vancouver

3.   Rest of Vancouver Links (e.g., Community Associations)

• Community Associations and Community Groups

  • My Own Back Yard Community Association (MOBY community garden is at 11th Avenue, close to Broadway skytrain station)

  • Strathcona Residents' Association (SRA)

  • Downtown Eastside Neighborhood Council (DNC)

  • West End Neighbours (WEN)

    • Mayor’s West End Community Advisory Committee — WEN web page and City of Vancouver web page

  • West End Residents Association (WERA)

  • Marpole Area Residents' Alliance (MARA)

• Other Groups

  • www.CityHallWatch.ca (Citizen reviews of major rezoning applications in Vancouver)

  • Reinstate Third-Party Appeals in the City of Vancouver

4.   Metro Vancouver Links

• Metro Vancouver – Air Quality Regulatory Program

  • Half way down the web page is a section on "Information regarding amendment to the West Coast Reduction Ltd. Permit," developed in response to concerns raised by people in Grandview-Woodland about odour from West Coast Reduction's rendering plant, which is located at 105 North Commercial Drive.   Metro Vancouver Community Update:   Rendering Plant Odour Management (April 2009).

  • Metro Vancouver's Online complaint form for air quality complaints.

• Port Metro Vancouver

  • Port Metro Vancouver's South Shore Corridor Project.

  • Port Metro Vancouver in the community

5.   Rest of Metro Vancouver Links

• Opposition to Highway Expansion / Gateway Project

  • Gateway 40 Network

  • Livable Region Coalition

6.   Outside of Metro Vancouver Links (Examples of Neighbourhood-Level Planning)

• Department of Neighborhoods, Seattle, Washington, USA

• Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, Los Angeles, California, USA

[ 1.  Grandview-Woodland Links ]

[ 2.   City of Vancouver Links ]

[ 3.   Rest of Vancouver Links ]

[ 4.   Metro Vancouver Links ]

[ 5.   Rest of Metro Vancouver Links ]

[ 6.   Outside of Metro Vancouver Links ]

(Last updated 13 December 2011.)