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The Canadian Elite Basketball League uses the Elam ending (which they've rebranded to "target score") and it's fun as hell

You see this in transit referendums with "how can I give them even more money when they can't even run the buses on time"

The critical upside of BRT is it holds off LRT being built in the same corridor instead

Surrey uses "this road will be extended through future development" signs which I always thought was prudent

Totally forgot the goal posts would end missed field-goal returns. Updating my overall reaction to "actually pissed".

100%. Wasn't gonna mention it cause I get that bureaucrats don't invite a ton of sympathy, but when you're criticized at work for going too far and online for being passive/conservative, it does get to the point for people where they throw their hands up and just treat it as a Job.

Really can't overstate this. And use social media, but also official channels, like take the survey (give staff a positive quote to put in the engagement summary), go to the public hearing (let the downers there see other perspectives), etc.

I think suburban muni planners/politicians tend to be over-optimistic about office prospects in their localities but Vancouver-based urbanists are (unsurprisingly) Vancouver-centric. Having offices in Langley is good - what's bad is they're on Highway 1 instead of downtown.

So much resistance to change just comes down to the simple matter of devil you know and devil you don't.

Totally. I live in an urban neighbourhood I love and that is slowly gentrifying from nail salons and thrift stores to coffee shops but what I'd really like is to be able to get a cheap fast burger at 11:30.

Yeah I think that the market is so slow that developers really would pass on fee savings to boost demand i.e. the market currently can't bear land+construction+fees+profit. Maybe I'm being too charitable, but it feels like Robertson is more playing communication games than revealing value positions.

This actually gets to why YIMBYism is helpful. Most people see housing development as "yes, but", which for you might be parking and for me might be transit proximity. Put all those "buts" together and we're back to status quo. Hence why planning still matters: to work through these trade-offs

Agreed and one of the biggest gaps in advocacy - YIMBY, urbanist, or otherwise - is the acknowledgement that half (the public half) of our communities fall within engineering department jurisdiction and planners have little influence on street design, infrastructure, etc.