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Originally Posted by chowhou
It's a little forgotten by time but if mayor and council + the NIMBY constituency had had their way in the 1980s they never would have allowed an elevated line through East Vancouver. Mike Harcourt as mayor of Vancouver was opposed to the Skytrain but the Socreds rammed it through.
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... and that's basically why the City of Vancouver did not [historically] allow densification at Commercial & Broadway, Nanaimo or 29th Ave. stations - because they viewed it as the Province ramming the line down the City's throats. Only Joyce was densified because it replaced 'ugly' warehouses with a more palatable residential community.
The local area plans around those stations only allowed redevelopment of then-vacant lots.
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