Hello?

Why on Earth is Chinatown getting special treatment and coddling in the area of architectural change and scale?

For crying out loud, hundred year old houses have been demolished en masse and replaced by massive structures bearing no resemblance to the prior buildings everywhere from Kitsalano to Kerrisdale.

There is no compelling reason -zero - to give Chinatown any special treatment in this regard. Raze it to the ground and let the overseas billions flood in and do as they please, if that is the natural direction of bald mercantile forces.

To treat Chinatown any differently from other neighbourhoods would be a brazen and disgusting act of cultural discrimination and a gross violation of ethics, judging the social worth of different neighbourhoods differently, some as garbage some as gold.