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"“It’s terrific,” Mr. Keate said, reiterating that property values will go up, not down, in a heritage conservation area, a point made in a city consultant’s report."

FRANCES BULA for the Globe and Mail;

A luxury neighbourhood of grand old homes and lush greenery is being designated as Vancouver’s first-ever heritage conservation area in an effort to halt a tide of demolitions and assuage fears that the city is being wrecked by a brash new group of home buyers who do not care about its history.


Vancouver designates First Shaughnessy a heritage area

Let me get this straight; a weathly, historically white neighbourhood, with little historical value is being saved, but Chinatown, an area of rich cultural and historical significance for the Country, not just the city, is being torn down down and rebuilt.

That pretty much sums up Vancouver for you.