BEPPLE – Cities need new deal with Ottawa on infrastructure costs
LAST WEEK, I was in Ottawa. I spent the week with about 100 other local government elected officials from across Canada. Our goal: to make it more affordable for our [Continue]
Housing
ROTHENBURGER – Eby housing strategy pushes us back to the era of little boxes
THE MARCH TO TICKY TACKY continues apace. David Eby’s NDP government is determined to run roughshod over the rights of cities to plan how they’ll grow. Maybe Pete [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Short-term rentals bill won’t fix housing but it will help
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE HOUSING SHORTAGE will become a little less serious after the provincial government introduced new legislation on short-term rentals [Continue]
BEPPLE – We’re now 100,000 strong, and we need more ‘gentle density’
WITHOUT A FANFARE. Without a hullabaloo, Kamloops passed the 100,000 mark in population. The 2022 annual report for the City of Kamloops released earlier this year [Continue]
FORSETH – Will Kamloops council be able to cajole builders to build more?
WEDNESDAY (May 31), the provincial government announced housing target expectations, which they say will deliver more homes faster, and announced the first communities they [Continue]
BEPPLE – We need housing but B.C. govt’s plan to impose zoning is too risky
WE NEED MORE HOUSING in Kamloops. There is no dispute about that. According to Statistics Canada, from 2016 to 2021 Kamloops’ population grew by 10%, making it the fifth [Continue]
