Peter Wohlwend is a few years passed now. I think of him often when I'm walking about the neighbourhood. Peter was active in the CityPlan process of the mid-1990s, when Kensington-Cedar Cottage, where I live, and Dunbar, where I ran amok as a teen, were its test neighbourhoods.
Prior to CityPlan, Peter was part of a citizens group that patrolled Kingsway neighbourhoods between Fraser and Knight Streets; not to confront those pandering or turning tricks, sneaking into yards or cars, but to bear witnesses to these activities and to notify police, if necessary.
Peter was more a designer than an engineer, and it was his wish to see the median strip on the 1300 block planted with trees and shrubs, like they do in Europe (he was born in Switzerland). This median strip is the visual legacy of those sometimes heated CityPlan meetings we attended: plantings, as opposed to subtractings. Nice that the City of Vancouver continues to maintain it.
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