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Co-Editors: Susan Wright, Sharon Yandle
Contributing Editor: Karen Hausch
Production Editor: Robyn Chan
Contributors this Issue: Tineke Hellwig (Fountain Terrace), Robyn Chan (RePlan Project Manager), Mendel Skulski (False Creek Friends), Sarah Brown (RePlan Community Planning Assistant) |
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| LAMEY’S MILL ROAD RE-HAB
Tineke Hellwig, Fountain Terrace |
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On Saturday, April 18, the City of Vancouver undertook street rehabilitation on the 1400 block of Lamey’s Mill Road. The work involved excavating the roadway and completing asphalt paving to repair existing damage. |
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REPLAN UPDATE
Robyn Chan, RePlan Project Manager |
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Strata Resident Meetings
The Strata Residents Group and RePlan staff have organized two meetings for strata residents: - Wednesday, June 10 - 7pm - Online webinar with Mike Walker, partner at Miller Thomson LLP. The meeting will provide information and an overview of the strata lease extension offer put forward by the City in 2022, which expires on February 29, 2028.
- Date TBD - A meeting for strata residents to outline current issues and how strata residents’ concerns can be relayed to City Council candidates and City staff.
To receive the RSVP link for these meetings, please email *email is hidden, JavaScript is required* to be added to the strata residents mailing list.
Co-op Lease Renewal Framework
Now that the co-op lease negotiations with the City of Vancouver have gone on for five years, the Long Term Planning and Lease Committees in False Creek South co-ops are taking a hard look at the lease framework itself. This includes a detailed analysis of the financial terms as well as other aspects of the lease.
The goals of this analysis are to assess how (or if) the new leases are working for co-ops, and we are looking at improvements that will allow more affordability for low- and middle-income people, as well as sound operations management for all the co-ops.
Municipal Party Meetings
RePlan continues to meet and share information with municipal party candidates in advance of the October 17 municipal election. Four one-pagers have been sent to parties and candidates on the key issues facing False Creek South, including co-op and non-profit lease renewal, strata leases, community planning and urban design, and community housing trusts. Each one-pager includes specific policy asks, including support for lease extensions, working with the Province on a regulatory framework for leasehold stratas, and support for community housing trusts by contributing City-owned land to trusts’ portfolios. |
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The watery part of the Creek
THE ‘OLD AND FEEBLE’ ZAIDA RETIRES
Mendel Skulski, False Creek Friends |
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ED NOTE: Over time, Between The Bridges has published articles from Zaida Schneider of False Creek Friends that focused on ecological issues surrounding the “watery part” of our neighbourhood.
Hello False Creek Friends, and friends of Friends,
Zaida has asked me to let you know that he has "retired from active duty” on account of getting old and feeble. Over the last five years, as a volunteer with False Creek Friends, he has enjoyed the exciting ride of seeing a community-led organization thrive and become a "real thing." |
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If you are trying to reach the leadership of FCF, please direct your enquiries to Mendel Skulski, project manager, at *email is hidden, JavaScript is required*. * An example of Zaida’s work and writing with False Creek Friends is CAN BALD EAGLES NEST HERE AGAIN? in the November 21, 2025, issue of Between The Bridges.
https://www.falsecreeksouth.org/2025/11/between-the-bridges-november-21/ |
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Nathan’s Book Club
IS GENTRIFICATION INEVITABLE?
Sarah Brown, RePlan Community Planning Assistant |
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“From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.
Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, New York, London, and Paris to look beyond the familiar and false stories we tell ourselves about class, money, and taste. What she brings back is an accessible, radical guide on the often-invisible forces that shape urban neighbourhoods: settler-colonialism, racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, and more.
Gentrification is not inevitable if city lovers work together to turn the tide. Kern examines resistance strategies from around the world and calls for everyday actions that empower everyone, from displaced peoples to long-time settlers. We can mobilize, demand reparations, and rewrite the story from the ground up.”
As per usual, we have limited copies available to lend out. Please email me directly at *email is hidden, JavaScript is required* to be added to the borrowing list.
The book is also available at the Vancouver Public Library in two formats (request hard copy pick-up or instantly access online in e-book format):
https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S38C9022380
Please RSVP to let us know if you can join so we can plan appropriate seating and refreshments. |
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| WHAT A DIFFERENCE A FEW YEARS MAKE! |
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Alder Bay Co-op resident Graham McGarva shared these two photos of the west end of False Creek South, taken from roughly the same vantage point in 1978 (top photo) and 2006 (bottom photo). |
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If you have any photos of False Creek South that you’d like to share, please email them to Robyn at *email is hidden, JavaScript is required*. |
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| COMMUNITY CENTRE SEEKING BOARD DIRECTORS |
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False Creek Community Association (FCCA) is seeking nominees for its next Board of Directors to be elected during the FCCA’s online Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, May 13.
The board consists of 15 directors who meet once a month. |
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Board members partner with the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation. Together, they provide recreational, educational, and social activities to local residents and visitors. To run for a board member position, you must have completed a program and have a One Card, or be a member of an affiliate group.
All those who are members of the Association are invited to our virtual (online) AGM on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at 5:30 pm.
Once registered, you will receive an email with the Zoom call-in details a few days before the meeting.
https://anc.ca.apm.activecommunities.com/vancouver/activity/search/detail/619221?onlineSiteId=0&from_original_cui=true |
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| BECOME A ZERO WASTE AMBASSADOR |
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Are you at least 16 years of age and live in an apartment, condo, or other multi-unit residential building in Vancouver? Are you interested in reducing waste and improving recycling at your building? Become an ambassador and help us reach our goal of becoming a zero-waste community by 2040.
For more information and spotlight stories, visit the Zero Waste website. |
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| WHAT’S GOING ON AROUND HERE? |
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False Creek Community Association
May 13, 5:30 pm: Annual General Meeting, online via Zoom. See Community Centre Seeking Board Directors elsewhere in this issue. * The 2026 Vancouver International Children’s Festival
May 25-27: Enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all ages from May 25 - May 31 on Granville Island! The 2026 Festival features circus arts, puppetry, theatre, dance, and music shows, plus lots of arts activities created just for children. Each show ticket includes an Activity Village wristband. With over a dozen arts activities, the Activity Village offers many ways to have fun together as a family. For more information, visit: https://www.childrensfestival.ca/ * Swamp Willow Pre-School Open House
June 6, 10 am to 11:30 am - Details elsewhere in this issue. * Nathan’s Book Club
June 7, 2 pm: Location TBD. “Is Gentrification Inevitable?” See article elsewhere in this issue. * Strata Residents group (SRG)
June 10, 7 pm: Online webinar via Zoom on the CoV lease extension offer. Details in RePlan Update, elsewhere in this issue. |
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THE (DESTRUCTIVE) FLICKER
Tineke Hellwig, Fountain Terrace |
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Walking by the parking area in front of 1477 Fountain Way, one might hear a flicker pecking away at the stucco wall at Twin Rainbows Co-op. Despite the dangling strips of aluminium foil and CDs, the flicker returns time and again – and causes quite some damage! |
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| | | Although the roped-off area is to allow the seeds to germinate, the goslings didn’t get the memo. |
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| CONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES: ARTICLES AND PHOTOS
Between The Bridges welcomes readers’ contributions of story ideas, events of interest, original photographs, and completed articles relevant to the False Creek South Neighbourhood Association’s goal to “promote an economically, social and culturally diverse neighbourhood with a friendly, positive and vibrant sense of community”. Signed articles reflect the views of their authors. For details go to:
http://www.falsecreeksouth.org/2021/01/between-the-bridges-contributor-guidelines/ |
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