Jericho Lands Planning Program

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Kits beach is jammed. Jericho and further towards Spanish banks is huge and while it's well utilized, there's plenty more park and beach space for people. They'll use it when they live close by!

There's already Trimble Park that was taken from the Jericho Lands.
There's also room to expand Jericho Beach into its parking lots and the Jericho Works Yard (move it to Pac Spirit).

I'm not saying the new park would be empty, (Jericho Beach is a draw for visitors in and of itself), but it does still seem the park-resident ratio is a bit high.

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

There may or may not be a Blanca Station several decades from now; two stations for Point Grey is already fairly generous. Jericho Hill's not atrocious if there's a way to walk E-W and N-S instead of directly NE-SW... and it looks like there will be one.

Google Maps shows the walking distance from Jericho to Samasat to be either 15 or 20 minutes, which is well within what you'd want for a station.

Most residents in Jericho aren't walking 15 minutes.

I know the demand would suck, but so did the demand for Sperling-Burnaby Lake, Inlet Center, and Braid (sort of).
They're not really there for demand reasons, they're there because of access and redevelopment (in this case, for both Jericho residents and UBC students, who historically kept the retail district afloat as the 99B went across it.

There is/was a decent amount of buy-in from the businesses there in order to ensure the retail district remains a hub and doesn't deteriorate.

Originally Posted by FarmerHaight

What is the definition of "suburban town center"?

http://www.metrovancouver.org/UrbanCentreProfiles


Point Grey and South Vancouver used to be their own suburbs, so in this situation, Jericho would be 'Point Grey's' 'Suburban T. Center' (Marpole and Kerrisdale could also work, but aren't on SkyTrain and are pretty close to Oakridge and Marine FTDA), Joyce-Collingwood for 'South/East Vancouver' and Oakridge as a town center on Cambie.
Maybe Hastings-Sunrise too, but PNE/Playland takes up a lot of room there.