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Originally Posted by trueviking
It should also be noted that high rise isn’t the only way to achieve high density. The new project on Osborne is an example. A 15 storey building tested for the site only had ten more units than the six storey that is going to be built. Six storey buildings can provide very high density and greater affordability. Like it or not, the economics of Winnipeg is 4-6 storey multi-family. Not high rise. We should be encouraging this kind of development as much as possible. It creates dense and high quality neighbourhoods.
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Why not test a 30 story building like 55 Nassau built 52 years ago.
To achieve a reasonable amount of density at 6 floors you need to load up entire block for many blocks, like from the Osborne Bridge to Jubilee. If you can do that, great, do it, do it fast as it's already been 10 years since rapid transit was built. Or load up a few high real high density mixed use.
The demand is there. New 6 floor building on Bell that is 80% leased and they expect 100% when construction is finished. Obviously it should have been 20+ floors similar to 240 Stradbrook/3 Donald near by. The NIMBY zoning forced the builder to keep it short.