[bomberjet]

There's a difference between infill housing and condo development. While both may use old land, or underdeveloped land, IMO these are not the same thing.

Replacing an old home with say 2 skinny homes, or just a new home has no real impact on services. The sewers will be able to handle everyones poop. Yes, building a 20 unit condo will require an analysis of the systems to see if the usage can be handled. Which again most likely is a non issue. If it is an issue, the developer either pays for it or backs out. Usually the land for a 20 unit condo and a single home are not compatible.

The city would not pay $10million to build a sewer for a condo. Much like what happened with north St. boniface. Systems could not handle a large scale, dense neighbourhood. So they put in single family homes.

We're talking apples and oranges here.