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"Bench Session"  October 2012   Capilano Road storefront planning office.  Local residents and members of CGA Executive Board completing comment/feedback forms for DNV Open House and Implementation Workshop.




"Beets, Bees & Beauty: Advancing Urban Agriculture" May 27, 2012 
Getting "the knowledge"


Bev didn't wait for Rudy to finish grilling her burger.

Kim kept tickets and cash.

Learning how to build better bee habitat

70 people attended - not a burger left over!

Elaine ensured everyone got a portion of the excellent food donated by Whole Food Market.


"We Make Buildings/Buildings Make Us: Looking Beyond Green - Big Bench Sessions, Nov. 30 2011
Dr. Ray Cole of UBC's School of Architecture and Landscape Design presents his concepts on "regenerative thinking" to members of the Gateway community.

"Graffiti patrol! You spray bomb, we wipe!"  November 13, 2011
 Graffiti has an negative effect on people's sense of their neighbourhood.  Unless removed, it tends to create unease among residents, conveying a sense of decay and alienation. Countless studies have shown that the quick removal of graffiti discourages repeat offenders.With the kind donation of professional removal sprays from a local cleaning supplies business we have begun to turn the corner on this problem locally, with a marked drop in spray bomb graffiti.

"Building a Healthy Community" - the Big Bench Sessions - Sept 21 2011
A three part series of community information events, the Big Bench Sessions expanded our park bench get meetings into an interdisciplinary approach to community planning for a new mixed-use, medium density redevelopment of the former Capwest site.  The completed development will comprise shopping, professional services, coffee shop, rental housing for seniors and market, alongside a community centre and expanded public spaces.

Handicap drop pan for Curling Road pathway  July 19, 2011
DNV work crews have begun the steps for installing a drop curb at the foot of the Belle Isle to Curling pathway.  This access feature will be of great help to cyclists and others with wheeled vehicles and the elderly. Future plans are for similar  drop curbs for Belle isle park in spring 2012, in order to increase accessibility to the park for toddlers, and others with mobility issues.


"New options for Homeless Housing", or "Let's just make it all into Junk"? June 20, 2011
Is our neighbourhood worthy of rebuilding or suitable only as a trash heap?  Below is one local resident's opinion on the question.  Why bother to take an old chest of drawers to the transfer station, when you can just chuck it into the bushes alongside the Larco site a few doors away from your home?


"Savoury Snacks and Saucy Talk",  May 14, 2011
In preparation for the May 16 OCP Public Hearings, residents convened at the new picnic table to trade picnic recipes and workshop their written submissions for the OCP hearings.  Overall the CGA membership represented 20% of the resident speakers at the hearings - an extraordinary display of support and engagement from a small corner of the DNV.

A place to share, meet and eat: May 5, 2011 
In response to resident requests for DNV Parks criteria for a community-led picnic table project, DNV staff jumped to the question and offered a table in two days! Here are some pics of DNV Parks crew installing the table and making friends with "Bubba".  Plans are forming for a savoury picnic snack competition, but Rudy Voser claims to have already won with his cornmeal polenta Provencal fashioned in the shape of Lego blocks.




Bubba trains parks crew in ball toss.

Belle Isle Park, Sunday, April 17 
Originally billed as "What happens if we do nothing?", the 21 residents debated strategies following news that DNV Council had removed the Infill Housing Program from the Lower Cap OCP local plan as a result of objections from a small group of residents.



Belle Isle Park, Saturday April 9
Mike "Dough Boy" Riley helps Gunilla Oberg make the transition from baking Swedish knackebrod to the subtleties of old English family recipes handed down from the time of the Norman Conquest. Josie Riley looks on to ensure that Mike doesn't slip in more references to Marmite as "food of the Gods". 
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February 2011 - Fullerton Avenue
Prior to the February Lower Capilano Conceptual planning workshop a variety of chalk signs along Fullerton Avenue presented pedestrians with suggestions of what new benefits could come to the community as a result of redevelopment of vacant commercial properties in the neighbourhood.


November 2010
The vacant commercial property - a dumping ground of 4.5 acres between Curling and Fullerton Avenue, as it is today and has been since 2002.   And for the next 20+ years?!!

December 2010
View from the 13th floor of the Woodcroft's Capilano building, with concept design inserted on the vacant former Capwest site,  using Google maps and real world reference points.  Note the building 'green roofs' of the proposed concept project. The dominant skyline feature remains that of the 22 storey International Plaza.


August 2010
"Housing Options for a Better Community" Tent event, Belle isle Park, August 2010.  Featured speaker and noted architect and planner Michael Geller presented ideas for renewal and revitalization of the Lions Gate community.
September 2010
"Lego South of Fullerton"  September 2010.  Members of the community prepared for the Lower Capilano design charrette by practicing with Lego blocks previously enjoyed by Rudy and Regula Voser's boys.  The Lego blocks were used to build a 'practice' design based on ideas and conversations originating in the South of Fullerton community.

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