Ogden Explosion ; Housing of All Kinds Is Going Up in the Heart of Vancouver

The ColumbianMarch 03, 2005

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Ogden is where older residential Vancouver crashes into one of modern retailing's not-so-lovely landscapes: the car lot.

Shiny, stationary automobiles are the area's outstanding feature. Ogden is home to the county's most utilitarian street name: Auto Mall Drive.

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Ogden Explosion ; Housing of All Kinds Is Going Up in the Heart of Vancouver

What's less noticeable, unless you leave the main drag and explore the neighborhood, is how the rest of Ogden is filling up with automobile users.

People, that is.

Neighborhood organizer and land-use watchdog Kathy Huss says Ogden, a neighborhood of "little old-war housing developments," aging retail establishments and those ubiquitous car lots, is now undergoing the biggest housing boom she's seen.

"Right now the development market is catching up with underutilized land that was zoned multifamily" long ago, associate city planner Bryan Monroe said. "And Ogd...

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