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Council is set to debate the official development plan for the Jericho Lands proposal, an ambitious plan to redevelop the 90-acre site across 4th Avenue from Jericho Beach Park.

Voters in the city of Vancouver will cast their ballots today in a municipal election to fill two vacant council seats.

 The plan, which has been hotly contested by some area residents, envisions 13,000 new homes housing 24,000 people on the Jericho Lands site.

The move comes amid growing concern about the city's hotel capacity as the clock ticks down on Vancouver's turn as host city for the FIFA 2026 World Cup.

The project on city land at East 1st Avenue and Clark Drive will include 97 non-market homes, along with a withdrawal centre. 

Supporters and opponents of a controversial plan to freeze new supportive housing in Vancouver are speaking out, a day after city council approved the proposal.

Vancouver currently only meters water usage in apartment buildings, and requires meters to be installed on all new builds and in renovations.

Members of the local business community said they are hopeful the new tenants will be a good fit for the neighbourhood.

As of Tuesday, 11 pets, including six dogs, several guinea pigs, rabbits and gerbils, were up for adoption on the city’s website

The 2025 Investment Plan will stave off looming service cuts while funding new routes and buses to address overcrowding in numerous areas. 

On Tuesday, Denny Heck, the lieutenant-governor of Washington, said his office had received information that reservations for the weekend were down by half.

Vancouver city council ordered the demolition of the building at 500 Dunsmuir St. in December 2024, after an inspection found it was at risk of collapse.

Former leader Jagmeet Singh said he would step down as soon as an interim leader was selected. He was among the more than a dozen New Democrats to lose their seats. 

In Vancouver's byelection to replace councillors who resigned, voters were met with long lineups at polling stations. The number of voters was up from the last byelection.

Vancouver voters iced Mayor Ken Sim's ABC party out in a weekend byelection, with the governing party's two candidates finishing sixth and seventh.

The task force will include representatives from business sectors, including tech, finance, tourism and real estate, First Nations, as well as former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell.

Woodfibre LNG said Thursday it was submitting an application to regulators to moor a second vessel with its current floatel to house nearly 1,000 additional workers.

In total, the first two days of advance voting in this byelection has seen Vancouverites cast 7,671 ballots, an increase of 84 per cent over advance voting days in 2017.

Candidate Jaime Stein, who finished sixth in the race for two vacant council seats on Saturday, made the comments during his concession speech, admitting he was going "off script."

Two council seats are up for grabs, after former OneCity councillor Christine Boyle was elected as an MLA and former Green councillor Adrianne Carr announced her retirement.