Opinion: Vancouver city hall's rejection of a daycare's proposed expansion doesn't bode well for prospects of solving child-care shortage.

Opinion: This Vancouver daycare’s proposed expansion clearly would not have solved the massive child-care shortage. But its rejection doesn’t bode well for the city’s ability to make real progress

  • FiveMacs
    52·
    2 years ago

    So the residents wanted it rejected, not the city. The city complied with the residents. Where’s the issue?

    • RehRomanoOP
      61·
      2 years ago

      The article explains why this is an issue. When we say “the residents” it’s important to contextualize which residents and how many:

      It also shows how city-building decisions can be swayed by a relatively small number of people who have the time, resources and desire to fight against change in their neighbourhood.

      It’s understandable people don’t want their neighbourhoods to change in ways they fear would make them worse. But city hall should weigh those voices against broader public interests, including a much larger group of people who could benefit from such changes, but are not nearly as likely to show up at public meetings to make their case.

      Macquisten would have liked to voice his support to the board of variance, but it’s not easy for a working parent of two to show up at city hall at 1 p.m. on a Tuesday.

      • corsicanguppy
        12·
        2 years ago

        So they’re gonna buy out the neighbours and remove the problem?

        8 new daycare spots is a fantastic little drop in the ocean, though, when a rec center could host 10 times as much with the same campaigning – and munis LOVE opening daycares and they run rec centers. It’s win-win except for someone in particular not running a fantastically lucrative business.

        But ‘only’ 8 spots is like someone owning ‘only’ 2 cats. How can you deny the cherubic 9th kid? 10th? 11th sweetie? 12th needy yob? 30th indistinguishable jam-handed shrieker?

        • RehRomanoOP
          3·
          2 years ago

          Sorry I truly don’t understand what you’re saying here… no one’s buying anyone else out. It’s a daycare.