Colleen Hardwick

Hardwick worked on dozens of film and television projects through a twenty-five year career.Internet Movie Database https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638867/#producer

Hardwick won a 1997 “Forty under 40” award in entrepreneurship from Business in Vancouver.Business in Vancouver’s Forty under 40; https://issuu.com/bivmediagroup/docs/forty_under_40_winners_1990-2011

Evolving from film production to film industry technology, Hardwick developed MovieSet Inc., a platform to monetize movies under production, but did not succeed.Parry, Malcolm. “TradeTalk” The Vancouver Sun 6 October 2011, page 93Shaw, Gillian. “Online and on the set” The Vancouver Sun 10 June 2009, page 42

In 2010, applying technology to the information-gathering phase of urban planning, she founded PlaceSpeak, a location-based civic engagement platform designed to consult with people within specific geographic boundaries.Sinoski, Kelly. “New online survey bridges virtual gaps” The Vancouver Sun 26 October 2012, page 5

Hardwick announced her candidacy for Vancouver city council in the summer of 2005. She campaigned with the Non-Partisan Association (NPA) against a proposal to use assets from Vancouver's Property Endowment fund to build housing that would not yield a return on the investment, claiming her Vision Vancouver opponents “don't even understand how market housing works.”Bula, Frances. “Southeast False Creek: Pie in sky or timely idea?” The Vancouver Sun 15 November 2005, page 5 Hardwick had the endorsement of the Vancouver Sun’s editorial board ahead of the November election.”Vancouver's challenges need cautious custodians” The Vancouver Sun 18 November 2005, page 18 With ten councillors to be elected, she placed thirteenth.The Province 20 November 2005, page19

Again running under the NPA banner, Hardwick came fifth. On a council with no party majority, she frequently questioned some of the initiatives and policies brought forth, and regularly voiced concerns about what she calls "scope-creep" where the municipal government dedicates resources to issues traditionally in the realm of other levels of government.Fumano, Dan. “A councillor's quiet protest” The Vancouver Sun 4 July 2019, page 1

Hardwick was elected as a member of the NPA but resigned from that organization in April 2021 to sit as an independent councillor.Bains, Meera. "3 Vancouver NPA councillors quit party to sit as independents" CBC News 21 April 2021 Five months later, Hardwick announced her affiliation with a new civic party, TEAM for a Livable Vancouver,Chan, Cheryl. "Vancouver councillor Colleen Hardwick joins new municipal party" The Vancouver Sun 29 September 2021 and on March 13, 2022 was acclaimed as TEAM's mayoral candidate for the 2022 municipal election.{{cite news |last1=Litle |first1=Simon |title=Vancouver councillor Colleen Hardwick nominated as TEAM mayoral candidate |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/8680211/hardwick-mayoral-bid-2022/ |work=Global News}} Hardwick came in third in the mayoral race with 9.97% of the vote."2022 Election results" https://results.vancouver.ca/results-list-view.html

While on council, Hardwick sought the establishment of an independent auditor general for Vancouver.Fumano, Dan. "Independent auditor now closer to reality for City of Vancouver" Vancouver Sun 2020 January 23, p. A6

Hardwick opposes increases in housing supply.{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Why TEAM's Colleen Hardwick takes issue with the "housing supply" solution |url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/colleen-hardwick-vancouver-housing-supply |website=dailyhive.com |language=en}} She has argued without evidence that upzonings and greater density have greatly exacerbated Vancouver's housing affordability crisis. She has argued that increased tax revenue through boosted housing supply is akin to a Ponzi scheme.

In 2019, Hardwick voted against allowing a 5-storey apartment building (where one-fifth of the units were below market rates) in Kitsilano, arguing "why are we promoting development to the detriment of our residents?"{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=5-storey rental apartment approved for Kitsilano |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-kits-rezoning-apartment-decision-1.5400935 |website=CBC}}

In 2022, she voted against a major rezoning plan for the Broadway corridor that permitted 40 storey mixed-use developments near SkyTrain stations, as well as the replacement of older, small 10-unit buildings with 15-20 storey buildings.{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Vancouver city council approves Broadway Plan after long debate |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-broadway-plan-vote-decision-1.6497534 |website=CBC}} She argued the added housing supply would lead to increased house prices. During her 2022 election campaign, she campaigned on spending $500 million toward building co-op housing and on creating neighbourhood-specific zoning plans.McElroy, Justin "Profiling Vancouver's political parties: TEAM Vancouver, led by Colleen Hardwick" CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-profiles-colleen-hardwick-team-2022-1.6603464

In 2023, Hardwick opposed proposals to allow for denser housing developments (such as sixplexes) in Vancouver as unnecessary, noting that "Vancouver already has the possibility for more housing under existing policies," under which almost every lot in the city is already eligible to have a main house, a basement suite and a laneway house on it.{{Cite news |date=2023-07-26 |title=Vancouver votes to hold public hearing on zoning proposal |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-vancouver-votes-to-allow-as-many-as-six-homes-on-lots/}}

In 2022, as a city councillor during a re-zoning hearing for a 12-tower housing project by MST Development Corporation (a partnership of the Musqueam Indian Band, Squamish Nation and Tsleil-Waututh Nation) on land owned by it and Canada Lands Company (a federal crown corporation), Hardwick questioned the suitably of the height of the buildings before voting in favour of the re-zoning.{{Cite news |date=2022-06-03 |title=Vancouver City Council approves Indigenous-owned Heather Lands development with 2,600 homes |language=en-CA |work=The Daily Hive |url=https://www.dailyhive.com/vancouver/heather-lands-vancouver-rezoning-approved-mst-development-first-nations/}}{{Cite web |last=Cyca |first=Michelle |date=2024-03-11 |title=Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous |url=https://macleans.ca/society/sen%cc%93a%e1%b8%b5w-vancouver/ |website=Macleans.ca |language=en-US}}

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