SFU City

Congestion charging is emerging as the No. 1 issue in transportation planning.  Come and hear the latest: May 16, 7 pm, SFU Harbour Centre.  Call for reservations 604-291-5100. 

The SFU City Program has just added TWO new lectures to our Spring schedule:

Congestion Pricing: An alternative to highway expansion in the region?

Wednesday, May 16, 7-8:30 pm
Venue: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W.Hastings Street, Vancouver
Admission free, but reservations are required.
Email cs_hc@sfu.ca or Call 604.291.5100

Other cities in Europe, Asia and North America are increasingly turning to various forms of road and congestion pricing to reduce crippling levels of traffic congestion. Find out how metropolitan areas around the world are using road pricing as an alternative to the traditional approach of simply expanding road networks to meet demand. Speaker: Lee Munnich, University of Minnesota, leading expert on congestion pricing. Co-sponsored by Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST) and by the SFU City Program.

Transportation: On the right track for EcoDensity

Thursday, May 24, 2007, 7-9 pm
Venue: SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1400, 515 W.Hastings Street, Vancouver
Free event. Reservations required: 604.873.7707 or ecodensity@vancouver.ca

Join us for a panel discussion with Dr. Larry Frank, architect Peter Busby and transportation engineer Lon LaClaire. Dr. Frank, the Bombardier Chair holder in Sustainable Transportation at UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning, specializes in the interaction between land use, travel behaviour, air quality and health. Mr. Busby will comment on the relationship between parking and the development and financing of higher density housing and Mr. LaClaire will focus on density and transit. Co-sponsored by the City of Vancouver and the City Program at Simon Fraser University.

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Do we have enough space for future job growth? The City of Vancouver is undertaking the Metro Core Jobs and Economy Land Use Plan to ensure there is sufficient land to accommodate future job growth and economic activity in the metropolitan core.

The study has recently completed “Step Two: Projecting the Future” where future projections of job growth and demand for employment space are compared to the amount of employment space that could be built under our current zoning.

The City of Vancouver is hosting a public open house to present these findings and to hear your ideas. The open house is scheduled for:

Saturday, February 3, 2007, 10 am – 2 pm
Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street
(North Promenade of Library Concourse)

City staff will be on hand to answer questions and collect your comments.

More information on this study is available on the city’s website at vancouver.ca/corejobs

INFORMATION: Andy Renton, Planning Assistant, 604.871.6964 corejobs@vancouver.ca

Fred Kent in Surrey? Should be a good match.

Those who are interested in place-making will know Fred, the president of the New York-based Project for Public Spaces. That’s the group which rates Granville Island as the best district in North America (More here).

Fred is the featured speaker for the annual conference of the Business Improvement Associations (BIAs) of B.C., scheduled for May 10-13 at the Sheraton Guildford Hotel. (Details here.) Sign up for the early-bird special.

Thanks to the Whalley BIA, organizers for the conference, Fred will also be doing a public presentation on Wednesday, May 9th, from 7-9 pm in the auditorium at SFU Surrey (next to Surrey Central SkyTrain Station).  His topic: How do you change a suburban crossroads into an urban core from a transportation perspective.

And for some insight on how the Project for Public Spaces does their work, check out this post on streetsblog - Where the Sidewalk ends: Dubai

By popular demand, Heritage Vancouver goes back to the Penthouse to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Vancouver’s oldest Exotic Night Club. Begin the evening - January 17th - with a behind the scenes tour of this famous club. Hear tales of the early days and visit the Steak Loft Dining Lounge and the VIP room where Joe Filipone entertained high profile guests such as Frank Sinatra.

The tour will be followed by an intriguing presentation by UBC Professor Becki Ross, “The Shake, The Rattle, and the Pole: Vancouver’s Striptease Past” , based on her nearly completed book on postwar burlesque and striptease in Vancouver, 1945-1980, To celebrate the occasion, The Penthouse menu will include a selection of reasonably priced South Asian Cuisine and a special Heritage Vancouver Martini. Plan to make an evening of it enjoy dinner, drinks and a performance.

January 17th, 2007
Location: The Penthouse, 1019 Seymour
Time: Tour: 6:30pm, Presentation 7:15, Striptease Show 8:00

Admission: $20.00; Heritage Vancouver Members $15:00

(Price includes cover and one drink)

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