UPDATE: PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED ON THURSDAY JULY 23, 2026 at 9:30 AM. YOU CAN STILL SIGN UP TO SPEAK HERE
We are working to sign up as many speakers as possible for the public hearing for the rezoning of 75 East 8th. This hotel is a deeply unpopular across many communities and so we must show City Council and the Developer that we will stand up and fight alongside the Myron Manor Collective tenants.
Regardless of how council votes, the tenants at Myron Manor and the VTU are committed to continuing the fight for Myron Manor. The more speakers and eyes on this rezoning hearing, the more people will join us to support the tenants in the fight to come if the rezoning passes.
Myron Manor Collective | Speaker Toolkit
🗓️ 75 East 8th Ave - July 23 - Schedule
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Public Hearing Continues 9:30 AM - 5 PM with a 12 PM Lunch Break (Likely between 30 minutes and 1 hour)
- Council will hear from speakers #2 on. So far, we have signed up over 200 speakers.
- While we cannot predict exactly what number they will get to because some speakers might miss their numbers, they have time to hear from approximately 70 speakers.
- In order to ensure that we can carry on to a third day, please try to call in or come in person for your speaker number on July 23rd if you are able to. We want them to have to listen to us for a long time!
📝 Before You Go
✅ Make sure you’re registered as a speaker: Visit the city’s website to sign up here.
✅ Follow along: The meeting will be streamed on Youtube, we will have updates on the Vancouver Tenants Union's Instagram or you can dial the City Clerk number available in your Speaker confirmation email to find out where we are in the meeting and speaker list.
✅ Speak by phone if you need to: We encourage you to join us at City Hall to cheer on other speakers. We will bring food to share. If you cannot make it you can absolutely call in to speak instead (even if you originally signed up to speak in person).
✅ Be prepared for the hearing to go multiple days: You can call in to speak if you can no longer make it in person and any speaker numbers that were missed are called at the end of the meeting.
✅ Read through materials: look through DefendMountPleasant.ca for more background information.
✅ Arrive early for seating: Seniors have priority.
✅ Bring any materials you’ll reference in your speech.
🗣️ Speaking Tips*
👉 You get 5 minutes (you don’t have to speak for a full 5 minutes).
👉 Open strong: “I oppose the rezoning of 75 East 8 Ave and ask Council to reject it today.”
👉 Cite specific facts: Refer to the list below.
👉 Speak from your heart and speak about your connection to Myron Manor, the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, your experiences with eviction or housing insecurity, why you oppose a development like this, or what the people actually need.
👉 Close by repeating the ask: “Please reject the rezoning of 75 East 8th”
*For more help preparing your speech, check out these slides.
Ask City Council to refuse the rezoning of 75 East 8th.
Ground the facts in your own lived experience & Reference pick one or two of the below reasons to reject the rezoning that speak to you.
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No Displacement This proposal threatens the homes of approximately 40 residents, including seniors, people with disabilities, an Indigenous elder, immigrants from all over the world, and young families. Tenants in 75 E 8th are told they are entitled to the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy. Yet, they are not entitled to a right of first refusal in this new building. And upon moving to a new market-rate rental, the compensation being offered would be spent in a few months. City staff admitted to the tenants that this “will not be a lateral move” meaning tenants will face worse quality of life and likely have to leave the neighbourhood or the city if this hotel is built.
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Homes not Hotels There is no hotel crisis in Vancouver. The study that claims such a crisis exists was funded by a hotel lobby group, meanwhile, hotel bookings in Vancouver are actually down ahead of the FIFA World Cup. The City’s Hotel Development Policy contains a loophole (3.2.2.1(d)) that allows developers to tear down 1000s of rental apartments to build hotels in any transit-oriented neighbourhoods across the city. In the Broadway Plan area alone, that is 25% of rentals in Vancouver! This policy should be immediately revoked. We cannot destroy people’s homes to build hotels. Read More: Vancouver’s Hotel Room “Crisis”: A Developer Giveway, Not an Affordabilty Solution (Report by Unite Here Local 40) |
No Digital Nomad Hotel in Mount Pleasant The rezoning application states, this hotel is meant to provide short-term housing for employees working at Vancouver’s “booming high-tech and biotech firms.” This “extended stay” style of hotel doesn’t require the services or staffing of regular hotels and won’t create local jobs. Forcing long term residents to leave the neighbourhood or the City to accommodate short-term tech workers is wrong! Read more about this sinister style of hotel here: Here to Stay, Not Extended-Stay!
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Evicting Filipino Families from their own Parish The proposed hotel would forever change the character of this neighbourhood for the worse. Close to a third of the tenants are Filipino, currently living within walking distance from St Patrick’s church and the proposed site of the Filipino Cultural Centre. The City cannot claim to celebrate the Filipino community’s place in Mount Pleasant while evicting long term Filipino residents from Myron Manor! Find the translation of our campaign in Tagalog here: Basahin ang Tagalog na salin ng pahinang ito dito.
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This Hotel is a Gift to the Rich The Broadway Plan is being used to push through a hotel for tech workers to generate wealth for the ultra rich at the expense of our homes. Lotus Capital Corp and Nicola Wealth have billions of dollars in holdings. Many of their services cater to “ultra-high-net-worth” clients, with investments in the $20 million range and higher. Destroying affordable rentals and forcing tenants to pay much higher market rents takes money out of people’s futures, out of their retirements, their children’s schooling, and threatens their ability to live stable lives. We demand that the city prioritize the future of our community and our neighbours over the investments of the ultra rich. This is a desperate attempt of big capital to recover profits during an economic downturn.
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City Plan Contradictions and Staff's Flimsy Justifications for this Project City Staff submitted a referral report that recommends Council approve the rezoning of 75 east 8th. The misleading claim of the planning department is that Myron Manor must be replaced because it is “non-conforming” to the Mount Pleasant Industrial Area and does not align with the Broadway Plan. The fact is that the Metro Vancouver 2050 Regional Growth Strategy would allow the City to redesignate Myron Manor from industrial to general urban, so that the apartment building can stay. The Broadway Plan is meant to incentivize the construction of housing. Yet, combined with the Hotel Development Policy, it’s being used to justify the destruction of housing in the Broadway Corridor. Read more about the referral report and policy issues here: What Happened at City Council Last Week?
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In November 2025, we received news that our landlords, Nicola Wealth Real Estate and Lotus Capital Corp, had applied to rezone and demolish our home, Myron Manor, at 75 E 8th Ave. If approved, our homes would be converted into a 21-storey extended-stay hotel. The rezoning application states, this hotel is meant to provide short-term housing for employees working at Vancouver’s “booming high-tech and biotech firms.”
This proposal threatens to destroy the homes of approximately 40 residents, including seniors, people with disabilities, an Indigenous elder, immigrants from all over the world, and young families. Close to a third of the tenants are Filipino, currently living within walking distance from St Patrick’s church and the proposed site of the Filipino Cultural Centre.
Basahin ang Tagalog na salin ng pahinang ito dito.
The proposed hotel will include “apartment-style living,” yet we will not be entitled to move back into the new building. Some of us have lived here for decades. Some of us our entire lives. Many of us would likely have to leave the city, and some the Lower Mainland or the province entirely.
We, the tenants of 75 East 8th Ave, have formed the Myron Manor Collective in order to fight to stay.
The destruction of homes like ours is touted as a solution to a fabricated “hotel room supply crisis” in Vancouver. Leading up to the hosting of FIFA this summer, the British Columbia Hotel Association’s president and CEO noted that, “we are ready to welcome the world, and we have the hotel availability to do so”.
The Broadway Plan is being used to push through a hotel for tech workers to generate wealth for the ultra rich at the expense of our homes. Nicola Wealth is focused on providing “wealth management and asset management services to affluent individuals, families, and institutions across Canada.” They require a minimum of $1 million in investable assets to invest with them.
The conversion of our home at Myron Manor into a hotel will only aggravate the affordability crisis, evicting our community and destroying our neighbourhood in the process.
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