False Creek Village Community

False Creek is one of the distinct communities in vancouver that are defined by bodies of water. It is a waterfront area that starts at the eastern end of English bay just at the Burrard and Granville bridgest and continues eastward. It separates downtown from the rest of the city. Activities in this community involves  canoeing, dragon boating, kayaking, public ferries, charter ships, and visiting pleasure boats.

COMMUNITY FACILITIES & BUSINESS

Parks:Hinge Park, Worksyard Park, Chindlren's Playground, Dog Park, People Park, Habitat Wetland, Community Garden, Creekside Park, Railyards Park, Coopers Park.

High Schools: 

Elementary Schools: Future Elementary School.

Community Centres: False Creek Community Centre, Shipyards Plaza, False Creek Rowing Club.

Business Centres: Salt Building.

Recycling / Garbage: 

FALSE CREEK VILLAGE HISTORY

The False Creek area was the industrial heartland of Vancouver through to the 1950s. It was home to many sawmills and small port operations, as well as the western terminus of the major Canadian railways. As industry shifted to other areas, the vicinity around False Creek started to deteriorate.

 

The future of False Creek south was subsequently shaped by debates on freeways, urban renewal, and the rise of citizen participation in urban planning. Through the 60s, the ruling NPA city government and senior city bureaucrats had hatched a plan - with little or no public consultation - to run freeways through the city. In the same period, the City razed large portions of Strathcona under the aegis of urban renewal. A group of influential citizens formed The Electors Action Movement (TEAM) to oppose the freeway and to radically change the way decisions were made on land use. A key figure amongst these people was Walter Hardwick, a Geography professor at UBC who envisioned the retrofit of this brownfield industrial site into a vibrant waterfront mixed-use community.

South East False Creek is now under development and served in 2010 as the athletes' village for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Fully built out, Southeast False Creek will eventually become a residential area for 16,000 people. (retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Creek (08/22/2011)

 

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