City officials notified Chief Adam Palmer that council had approved the cuts in an in-camera session to help offset the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The city will now look at a variety of "more flexible patio types," which could include "utilization of curb lane, street, sidewalk and laneway space for extensions."

City council has unanimously approved a bylaw amendment aimed at enforcing social-distancing measures.

The motion calls for a plan to find and build housing for at least 80 per cent of the homeless people in Vancouver and other cities within three years.

An adjustment to the bylaw would give owners the option of rehabilitating their dogs' behaviour, potentially sparing them a lifetime of muzzling and isolation.

Vancouver Coun. Sarah Kirby-Yung says seeing the broken tiles and pieces of rubble strewn around the sidewalk was concerning, but not surprising.

The year-long pilot project will see the road reduced to just one lane of traffic each way between Gore and Raymur avenues, including during peak commute times.

The new health-care campus is blocks away from hundreds of low-income housing units that Coun. Jean Swanson says are under threat.

Reports that NPA secretary Ray Goldenchild attended the event is believed to be one of the reasons why Coun. Rebecca Bligh left the party Friday to sit as an independent.

In a statement released Friday, Bligh said she will continue to sit on council as an independent.