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In short - yes! Let’s allow small lot single-stair walkable n’hoods - with accessible buildings as a default! It’s an important shift in urban planning for not just Vancouver but also for North America in that it aims to end the apartment ban for much of the city and allow apartments on small lots.

It’s also a counterpoint to 50 years of the “grand bargain” style of planning that combined single family character restrictions with super charged density - mostly on polluted arterials or former industrial sites.

This created a lot of really nice single detached n’hoods but it also created a lot of gold-plated-dirt (…in many n’hoods a run down bungalows now costs $3m, which is just the price of the land).

My only objection is the name of the plan. Village? We're taking suburban areas and upgrading them to a more urban form, and that means they now get a cutesy rural name?