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Public consultation blooms suddenly at city: Marpole the latest to get special meetings

July 19th, 2010 · 61 Comments

With little brush fires of community resistance to new projects breaking out here and there, city council is being kept busy.  The West End is, of course, a major forest fire at this point, meriting its own advisory committee.

In Marpole, where there is a massive project planned for Marine and Cambie, more towers planned for the Safeway lot at Granville and 70th, and just generally more, things are building up.

So Raymond Louie is introducing a motion at council tomorrow that, to help deal with a lot of “misinformation” floating around the community, the city will hold two public events in September. (Sounds sort of like what the city did with the West End in April, as planners were sent out to talk about the rental-housing-incentive program and the specific buildings being proposed through it.)

The problem with all of these meetings, as people who work in community engagement will say, is that they’re coming so far down the road. The later communities get pulled into discussions about projects, the harder it is to convince them it wasn’t all some massive plot.

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