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Originally Posted by Changing City
It absolutely is what I meant.
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Originally Posted by Changing City
So Vancouver won't have to revisit their policy, unless they choose to do so. It's perfectly possible to build a 6 unit apartment building with 500 sf 1-bed apartments at 1 FSR on a standard 33ft Vancouver lot, but not really possible to provide more than four family-sized apartments.
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C'mon man, this is what you meant. Regardless of whether Vancouver adopts higher FSR or not, they will still have to revisit and rewrite their zoning policies because even Strathcona is simply not zoned to allow six-plexes (even if legacy ones exist).
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Originally Posted by ssiguy
This is a VERY good start and one that was needed 30 years ago but better late than never.
As far as this being an overriding of municipalities, well the reality is that it is and that's a good thing. City Halls across the province have shown themselves over the last 50 years to be completely incompetent in introducing any form of urban zoning that would create a city for all income levels which starts with housing. The problem I have with the legislation is that it assumes the cities are willing to play ball. The legislation ALLOWS for higher density but doesn't FORCE it which we all know means the lower income areas with increase density and the higher incomes won't.
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The dream is that blanket higher density should be a turning point for developers to snatch up SFHs to build six-plexes before other developers can snatch up SFHs to build SFHs because they should be able to make a higher return on higher density project. It shouldn't matter whether or not the cities are willing to play ball if the province mandates a certain zoning and developers are given free reign to develop under those guidelines.