With the construction of the Broadway Subway in full swing, it makes sense a new community plan for Broadway is being created.

A community plan is essentially a land-use plan to guide city planners; in the case of the Broadway Plan it stretches through three neighbourhoods, from Kitsilano to Mount Pleasant, along Broadway. It roughly encompasses the area between Vine Street on the west, Clark Drive on the east, 1st Avenue on the north and 16th Avenue on the south.

While past planners have created relatively consistent land-use and zoning situations, including smaller plans, the Broadway Plan will be a more cohesive and connected idea with a simple set of goals, the city says in a press release.

Those goals, according to the city are:

• greater affordability in housing and helping current tenants stay in the neighbourhood
• new and improved ways for people to move around
• improved parks and public spaces
• new and renewed public amenities

Currently, the area in the Broadway Plan is the location of 84,400 jobs, the second-largest job centre in the province after the city’s core. Notably, Vancouver General Hospital is in the area, which means a good chunk of the jobs are in the medical field, and 44 per cent of the city’s health care jobs are located in the area. However, the largest industry in the area is sales and service, followed by business, financial and administrative jobs.

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