105 Keefer Custom Opposition Letter Generator 2023

SaveChinatownYVR created this custom letter generator to help you get started on your 105 Keefer opposition letter to the City of Vancouver Development Permit Board. This is not a form petition, but a tool that gives you a starting point for your custom letter to the City.

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Your Information

First Name (Required)

Last Name (Required)

Email (Required)

Address (Required)

Postal Code (Format: V1A 2B3, Required)

Your Relationship to Chinatown

What is your relationship to Chinatown?

Currently live there

Previously lived there

Live near there

Work there

Grew up going there

Care about Chinatown

And/or describe your relationship in your own words:

Describe your relationship to Chinatown (Write in full sentences)

Comment on Impact to Surroundings

How does the application affect the immediate surroundings? (Check all applicable reasons)

Beedie's development at 105 Keefer is not contextually appropriate for Chinatown and its surroundings, which include culturally significant sites like Chinatown Memorial Square, Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden, and the Chinese Cultural Centre.

The development's mass is too overpowering for the area, which is culturally sensitive.

It does not respond to the cultural, historical, and design context of the area, particularly as a significant gateway into Chinatown.

The project violates HA-1's "urbanism" guidelines by not fitting into the surrounding area's history, culture, and architecture.

The development is an inappropriate use of a culturally sensitive site, located on the Keefer Triangle, the second most endangered site on National Trust for Canada's Top 10 Most Endangered Sites in 2016.

The development is an out-of-place Yaletown condo project in historic Chinatown.

Chinese Veterans Memorial Plaza should not act as private front yard.

And/or describe your concerns:

Custom reason 1 (Write in full sentences)

Comment on Impact on City Goals and Priorities

How does the application fit with the City’s goals and priorities? (Check all applicable reasons)

City Priority #1 - Affordability and housing crisis: The 111-condo development will increase the unaffordability, economic displacement, and gentrification in the low-income neighbourhood.

City Priority #3 - Diversity, equity, and social issues/opportunities: The condo development will exacerbate inequity and social issues in Chinatown and DTES.

City Priority #5 - Reconciliation: The application is anti-reconciliation with Chinese Canadians, especially after the City’s apology to Chinese Canadians for historic wrongdoings in 2018.

City Priority #8 - Extraordinary civic amenities: The development is an inappropriate backdrop to the Chinese Veterans and Railway Workers Memorial Square, which is currently undergoing redesign.

And/or describe your concerns:

Custom reason 1 (Write in full sentences)

Warning! Every time you press generate, a new letter will be created and your edits will be overwritten.

Generated Letter

This is the generated letter from your answers to the questions above. Edit and customize the letter as you need to reflect your own opinion. We strongly suggest that you customize it, because the purpose of this tool is not to generate a form petition, but to help you get your started on your own letter.

Here's how to submit your letter to staff and the Development Permit Board:

Copy and paste the text in the text area below into the City's feedback form here.
Click the "Send Email" button below. If this option doesn't work, try Option 3.
Copy and paste the text in the text area below into an email and send it to the following email addresses:
- to: jaimelynn.borsa@vancouver.ca, david.autiero@vancouver.ca, corrie.okell@vancouver.ca, theresa.o'donnell@vancouver.ca, lon.laclaire@vancouver.ca, andrea.law@vancouver.ca, jason.olinek@vancouver.ca, karima.mulji@vancouver.ca, michelle.au@vancouver.ca, kathy.cermeno@vancouver.ca, may.sem@vancouver.ca
- cc: ken.sim@vancouver.ca, rebecca.bligh@vancouver.ca, christine.boyle@vancouver.ca, adriane.carr@vancouver.ca, lisa.dominato@vancouver.ca, pete.fry@vancouver.ca, sarah.kirby-yung@vancouver.ca, mike.klassen@vancouver.ca, brian.montague@vancouver.ca, lenny.zhou@vancouver.ca, peter.meiszner@vancouver.ca
- bcc: savechinatownheritage@gmail.com

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Generated Subject Line

Generated Letter / Email

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Send Letter by Email

Note: Clicking the "Send Letter" will automatically open your email client. If it does not work, try the alternative sending options 1 and 3 listed above.

105 Keefer Custom Opposition Letter Generator 2023

Your Information

Your Relationship to Chinatown

What is your relationship to Chinatown?

And/or describe your relationship in your own words:

Comment on Impact to Surroundings

How does the application affect the immediate surroundings? (Check all applicable reasons)

And/or describe your concerns:

Comment on Impact on City Goals and Priorities

How does the application fit with the City’s goals and priorities? (Check all applicable reasons)

And/or describe your concerns:

Your Concerns on 105 Keefer

What are your concerns about the application and how should they be addressed? (Check all applicable reasons)

And/or describe your concerns:

Generated Letter

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Important Note: Please customize your letter for the greatest impact. ⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Important Note: Please customize your letter for the greatest impact. ⚠️⚠️⚠️