Mike Howell
Reporter at Vancouver is Awesome
Longtime Vancouver Courier civic affairs reporter now member of Glacier Media’s Central Team. Cover Vancouver & region. Reach me at [email protected]
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1 week ago |
timescolonist.com | Mike Howell
A former Vancouver hotel on the Granville Street strip that was purchased for $55 million in 2020 by the provincial government to house people who were living in an encampment at Oppenheimer Park has been deemed “safe to re-occupy” after a fire June 11. The Luugat, a former Howard Johnson, was forced to evacuate tenants after a fire broke out in a suite on the fifth floor of the building at 1176 Granville St. Vancouver Fire Rescue Services determined the fire was caused by a locking butane torch.
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1 week ago |
biv.com | Mike Howell
A proposed zoning map released by the City of Vancouver reveals multiple areas across the city where social housing towers of 15-20 storeys would be allowed to be built in what are largely single-family neighbourhoods. The map provides a geographical view of what the City’s proposed “social housing initiative” aims to achieve in allowing such density in areas from West Point Grey to Boundary Road.
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1 week ago |
timescolonist.com | Mike Howell |Mike Howell
New crime data from the Vancouver Police Department that covers the first three months of 2025 shows the city experienced its lowest number of violent crimes since 2002. Violent crime decreased by 11.2 per cent between January and March, with offences dropping from 1,342 to 1,192—the lowest number of violent crimes on record since the implementation of the Police Records Information Management Environment system in 2002.
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1 week ago |
biv.com | Mike Howell
Three proposals for housing towers that would create a total of 518 rental homes are among the latest applications under the Broadway Plan to go before Vancouver city council. A public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday night where applications for properties at 469-483 East 10th Avenue, 1665-1685 West 11th Avenue and 2267-2275 West 7th Avenue are expected to be heard from council. As of Monday, a total of 46 people had registered to speak to the proposals.
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2 weeks ago |
timescolonist.com | Mike Howell
The City of Vancouver’s finance team is projecting a total property tax increase in 2026 of seven per cent but warns “a number of material risks or unknowns” could impose additional costs over and above that projection. A staff report that goes before city council June 18 says increases in costs to maintain existing service levels in 2026 is driving what could be a property tax hike in the five to six per cent range.
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