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Originally Posted by jollyburger
Is a highrise boom coming to Vancouver's East Hastings neighbourhood?
Strathcona resident Evan Horie is alarmed at the height of the proposed towers, which are about two-and-a-half times taller than others in the neighbourhood.
“The scale is really out of context with the neighbourhood character, and really the infrastructure capabilities, particularly with the social housing element,” said Horie.
“This type of scale in density far exceeds (the density around) a rapid transit hub, and that’s not even there. In addition to that, there’s the lack of parking (41 stalls for 767 rental units in the rental towers).
“Can you imagine the nightmare (parking) in this neighbourhood? It’s already tough to find a spot in front of our house to unload our kids from school.”
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I would love to repeatedly smash a nerf bat over this guys head. Bringing these new units will make the neighbourhood safer, and eventually create a retail strip along a stretch of Hastings that is very desolate.
I would take it a step further and let the developer build 60 story rental buildings, because the more functional people you bring into the DTES area, the more functional the neighbourhood becomes. And stop building social housing in the DTES.