The sunbeam has aligned with the rows of my keyboard

A 35 year old fireworks show going up in smoke

Their current list still includes "Kitsilano-Arbutus Residents Association", but from what I could find it only existed around 2012 just to oppose redevelopment of Varsity Ridge Bowling & The Ridge theatre.

Did they add a new name since your check they would have known is already defunct? 🤔

If you back-feed the grid I expect some alarms will go off and you could get a visit from some pretty angry people, but if your solar panel never produces more than your home's lowest electricity usage, I'm not sure how they could tell you've got one plugged in?

They're clogging the toilets on the way out

(20 degrees Celsius is t-shirt weather)

The South Okanagan is semi-arid, but gets pretty similar cloud cover patterns as the lower mainland, and is pretty mountainous outside of developed areas.
There might be some interesting possibilities for smaller scale agrivoltaics.

natural-resources.canada.ca/energy-sourc...

Even being a recluse who doesn't partake in much of the city's culture - I much prefer being in my 'walk to most places within 20 minutes' neighbourhood than my 'drive to most places within 20 minutes' hometown

She could plant some native wildflowers on that sad strip of grass, and then barely have to see the docking station anymore

SRP gives a density bonus for IZ - build 6 storeys instead of 5 if 20% is below market - but I'm not aware of any projects that have used it, so the result is fewer market homes than possible and no below market

Vancouver tried two approaches to prioritize low and midrise buildings with IZ

MIRHPP sought to streamline 20 projects with 20% below market homes, but ended with less than half that.
I think there are now 2 completed projects after about 6 years.

I'm glad to see the inclusion of different household types 🙌

Would like to see info for cities within Metro Vancouver to show tradeoffs of housing & transportation costs

three years in he's still making decisions that both alienate people he needs on his side and seem pretty obviously counter-productive to his own goals & re-election

It's hard to see even the "government should be run like a business"-type people being happy with his performance

It was clear that Sim didn't understand important differences between running a private business and public services, and the capabilities of the role in a weak mayor system.

But,

I'm grateful for the living tree doctrine interpretation of our constitution and not how the US applies originalism in regressive ways
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_...

There's reactionaries who use pseudo-leftist arguments to oppose change
and leftists who only react to oppose changes they don't like, often never supporting incremental or imperfect changes