Vote delayed on Vancouver Chinatown condo plan after meeting hears from about 100 speakers

A hearing to determine the fate of a controversial condo project proposed for Vancouver’s Chinatown has ended without a vote after hearing from about 100 speakers.

The meeting of the city’s development permit board about whether to approve the nine-storey building at 105 Keefer St. ended at 10 p.m. Monday with a decision to postpone the vote until June 26.

Critics of the proposal, which will include 111 residential and commercial units built on what is now a parking lot, say it ignores the needs of the neighbourhood because it contains only market-rate apartments and no social housing units.

The City of Vancouver says 76 people signed up to speak at the last

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