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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
NIMBYs and racists? Lol
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The roots of restrictive North American zoning were driven by racism starting about a hundred years ago - Chinatowns and Japantowns didn't happen by accident, they were deliberate efforts to exclude minorities from owning land. Those efforts were what created single family neighbourhoods - they were what created the British Properties and Shaughnessey which included covenants preventing people of colour from buying in.
As it ethnic ghettos/enclaves came into existence it became the excuse for more restrictive zoning b/c it was the way for whites to say they didn't want to more crime or poverty from those neighbourhoods to come into theirs.
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
More like people with influence and money.
The poors living in east and south van are subject to rezoning with almost no consultation. People on the west side have a small group complaining to city council and they get their way.
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Money talks but let's not act like landowners in East Van don't have power - just follow any council meeting. Same goes for Burnaby and every city. It's the landowners who hold sway.
Sure, the West side has even more power but anyone who owns land is ahead of those without.