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Bruno Freschi

    CHRONICLE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION: “Meeting Metro Vancouver’s urgent housing demand is exactly the sort of situation for which we developed the regional growth strategies legislation in the 1990s,” stated Mike Harcourt, former Premier of British Columbia whose leadership made possible the Growth Strategies Act (5th installment in a preview series)


    “How do we manage the number of people that are moving into the Georgia Basin when we have a very tough geography where the urban space is pretty limited by the sea and the mountains, and by rivers and agricultural land and park wilderness. When you take all that out, there is not a lot of land for urban development and an urban population. Cities are all about choices. much will depend upon getting the choices right,” stated Mike Harcourt.

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    DOWNLOAD A COPY OF: “Living Water Smart in British Columbia: Cities are all about choices” – released by the Partnership for Water Sustainability in November 2024


    “In 1992, I asked the BC Roundtable on the Economy and Environment to investigate the challenge of growth from a bioregional perspective. The idea for the Georgia Basin Initiative was seeded in their report titled Georgia Basin Initiative: Creating a Sustainable Future. The Roundtable findings were clear. We need to act quickly to avoid the situation faced by other large urbanizing regions, where unmanaged growth is degrading the environment and lowering the overall quality of life for the people who live there,” stated former premier Mike Harcourt.

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