Posted Feb 2, 2024, 5:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Changing City
It's presumably the Director of Planning who will report to Council. Unfortunately the previous Director had her contract 'concluded' in mid September, and there is still no replacement.
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Indeed. Let's hope they get around to finding someone before end of Q2 2024. In the meantime, CityHallWatch has an interesting timeline and history of past COV City Planners.
Edit: too snarky to say that it looks like CHW invoked MS Paint for a very short time to make this graphic?
Src: article below
Url: https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/...nning-archive/
"THERESA O’DONNELL (“appointed” with no search 18-Apr-2021, “concluded” 18-Sep-2023) No search was conducted. An internal appointment by City Council was done in camera under section 560 of the Vancouver Charter, which states: “The Council may appoint a Director of Planning, who shall have such duties and powers as the Council may from time to time prescribe.” Her original appointment was announced publicly on 28-Apr-2021, after having served Vancouver two years (hired by Gil Kelley in March 2019 as deputy director of planning). Despite having, to our knowledge, no Canadian certifications related to planning or architecture, and only two years in Vancouver, she had very limited knowledge of the planning history or culture of Vancouver, her appointment during the COVID pandemic after the sudden departure of Gil Kelley gave her the power to preside over some of the most significant planning decisions in generations, including the Vancouver Plan, Broadway Plan, and Missing Middle/Multiplex Rezoning policies. And then she was gone."
Last edited by Jimbo604; Feb 2, 2024 at 8:06 PM.
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