The Thunderbird Gazette

The fol­low­ing is a guest post writ­ten by Dr. Dar­ren Peets, former stu­dent Board of Gov­ernors rep­res­ent­at­ive and cam­pus plan­ning afi­cion­ado. We invited Dar­ren to offer a crit­ical ret­ro­spect­ive on cam­pus plan­ning pro­ced­ures, and to offer a solu­tion. Dr. Peets is cur­rently work­ing as a post-doc in Japan.
I was invited to write a short piece […]

Just got a mail from the plan­ning depart­ment: St. John Hos­pice will not be built behind Mar­ine Drive! There is much to rejoice here, as it points to some­thing in the plan­ning cycle work­ing. Here’s the let­ter that made my morning.

Alex:
This email is a follow-up to your feed­back received con­cern­ing the Devel­op­ment Per­mit applic­a­tion for […]

Last Septem­ber, in part­ner­ship with the Van­couver Hos­pice Soci­ety, the Order of St. John and Van­couver Coastal Health, the Board of Gov­ernors passed a par­tial Board 1 to build a hospice. The build­ing will only cost UBC mar­ginal main­ten­ance costs, the man­age­ment will be under­taken by VCH, and the build­ing is for­feited to UBC in at […]