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The move to eliminate Vancouver’s elected Park Board, the only one in urban Canada, follows the recent retirement of the Vancouver Economic Commission. Shifting both under City Council oversight will streamline decision making. The era of difficult decision making has just started (hint: the City we need vs the City we want). https://lnkd.in/djvBTvxE #vancouverplan Vancouver Strategic & Integrated Research #broadwayplan #cities #cdnpoli #cdnmuni #foresight #leadership #strategicmanagement #capacitybuilding #riskmanagement #strategicintelligence Urban Land Institute Canadian Urban Institute (CUI)

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Interesting article about the importance of leadership & partnering, a philosophy which resonates with most sectors imo. #Leadership #Partnering

Happy St. George's Day! As we celebrate the patron saint of England, let's embrace the spirit of courage, resilience, and unity. All traits that we need on a daily basis as business owners🌹 #StGeorgesDay #BusinessOwners #BusinessConsultants #BusinessStrategy #ChangeManagement

Happy St. George's Day! As we celebrate the patron saint of England, let's embrace the spirit of courage, resilience, and unity. All traits that we need on a daily basis as business owners🌹 #StGeorgesDay #BusinessOwners #BusinessConsultants #BusinessStrategy #ChangeManagement

What a stunning well crafted scaffolding project! #scaffolding #scaffoldingservices #scaffolddesign #scaffolders #sitesafety #constructionsafety

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You are King of the Britons. You want to be a good King and help your subjects. You want to provide them with housing. Affordable homes. For all tenures. Beautiful houses. Houses like we used to build, traditional homes made in Georgian times; not those high-rise monstrosities they build today. Built in nice, real neighbourhoods, with green spaces and parks, local shops and services, and a cricket green. A genuine sustainable community, with new jobs, using renewable energy and increasing bio-diversity. You do everything right. You appoint a design team that spend six years - six years - engaging the local community through charettes and ‘enquiry by design’ to work up a design that will complement the unique historic character of the local area and its rich history. One day, you will be able to look back proudly at your contribution, and unlike some of your predecessors, know that you treated your people well and generously. Surely, your people will be grateful, appreciative and thank you for everything you are doing. Surely……. Er……. “It seems there’s no end to the greed of Prince William and King Charles!! It’s a disgrace that they pose as environmentalists when in fact they’re like all developers and it’s purely about the money! “And what about food security?? All this Grade 1 and 2 farmland being concreted over.” “My family are very proud 3rd-generation Duchy farmers and they feel ashamed and betrayed. No honour, just greed. We were hoping the Royals were maybe oblivious to it all, with good intentions, but it’s all a gloss.” Ouch. What an ungrateful lot. And what was the point of that six years? All that time, effort and money. And what do you have to show for it? There’s got to be a better way. And there is. Start engaging those that want to see new homes. Those that want to see new homes for themselves and their family. You might not know it, but a majority of people support housebuilding in their area. Let’s start talking to them. When will our industry learn that you’ll never convert a NIMBY? Faversham shows you can spend years talking to them, giving them everything they want, and they still oppose you. When something doesn’t work, you should stop doing it. But our industry, with its head in the sand, keeps doing the same old thing. Let’s start talking to supportive audiences. And make sure their voices start to balance the public debate. It’s only then, that Councillors will be confidently able to support your plans. How the world has changed. In 2024, even the King of the Britons needs approval from the local planning committee. That would never have happened in Henry VIII day. https://lnkd.in/e3BbNj8B

Great article on the amazing work of Owámniyomni Okhódayapi under the impressive leadership of our President Shelley Buck (Pte Wicota).