Monday’s meeting featured a Public Hearing. Two actually. This is something the City doesn’t do as much anymore since the Province changed the rules and limited our ability to hold them for routine rezoning applications. These OCP and Zoning changes were not routine, however, but represented a big step forward in housing variety and affordability […]

Happy 2026. We are back at it after a bit of a break, and we go through our first agenda of the new year fairly quickly. It started with a Presentation from BC Housing: Letter of Commitment, Operations Management Plan and Neighbourhood Inclusion Table for the Purpose Shelter at 502 Columbia Street This presentation from […]

Whew! Last meeting of 2025 had an epic agenda, even for the end of the year meeting. I’m going to try to keep these reports short, and come back in future post to unpack a bit some of the meatier items. The following items were moved On Consent: Food Security and Systems Plan Food security […]

Council Monday! It was fun to go out to Tipperary Park before and countdown to the Bright in the Park light-up, where a few hundred people got a bit of early Christmas Cheer. Alas, not all of them came to watch Council after. Because we had an exciting agenda starting with this Report: Vulnerable Building […]

As I mentioned in my last Council report, we had a presentation on the first annual evaluation of the Crises Response Pilot Project. I don’t usually report out on presentations here (there was no decision for Council to make), but this one led to some interesting discussion and is centre of mind for many people […]

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 […]