These Vancouver “character home” projects are perverse. So much effort and money to add a couple of units while pretending to retain some heritage. theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/va…
The existing house has been duplexed, totally gutted, *and moved*.
And this in the backyard: detached house with garage, listed at $1.9-million
This is pretty much the slowest, most complicated, most economically regressive form of intensification that anyone could possibly invent
The developers would have liked to add more units, but “character”
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I watched a public consultation last night for this new City of Toronto project, which is half middle-income affordable. It was greeted by some really appalling NIMBYism. Nearby condo owners concerned about “crime.” 1/
And “it’s too tall,” and traffic, all the usual complaints. For a new rental complex replacing a parking lot, in a cluster of highrises, next to a multibillion-dollar new subway. 2/
Very solid site plan and decent prototype architecture. What’s not to like? 3/
This is ridiculous. Law-breaking cyclists are not the problem. Law-breaking drivers, who maim and kill people regularly, are the problem. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
Good for CBC’s @PaulaDuhatschek for pulling this data. 15 incidents in 15 years. None of them fatal.
Thousands of people have been hit by cars in Toronto, hundreds of them killed, in that time. For most of which Toronto police deliberately abdicated their responsibility to enforce traffic laws. theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/m…
Toronto; now one of the least affordable cities in the world, and its planning department is openly saying it doesn’t need to increase the pace of housing construction. 1/ #topoli
This analysis doesn’t even try to account for what things will cost or for how all this “housing” will be allocated. Hard to summarize how misleading this is. 2/
I can only assume this is meant to discourage the prov government from pushing (progressive, necessary, beneficial) infill goals on the city. But why would planners do that in the first place? 3/