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Originally Posted by roger1818
Have you even been to the suburbs in Ottawa? Yes there are many large homes but there are also lots of townhouses as well. Below is a new development in Stittsville. They may be larger than 1000 sq ft inside, but they are by no means "McMansions."
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Did I say there were no townhouses in the suburbs? It's great that the suburbs are finally having some density forced on them. But let's not kid ourselves. Most of those new developments still aren't building walkable, transit friendly neighbourhoods. Your exceptions aren't the rule. And you know it.
Incidentally, these handful of streets of townhouses aren't all that pedestrian or transit friendly either.
And location matters as much as build form. If they were to build a 50 storey condos in Carp, that would not really help with transit planning either.
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Originally Posted by roger1818
Exactly. There seems to be an assumption on this forum that everyone works downtown.
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Umm no. I don't work anywhere close to downtown. So I fully understand what people face.
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I work in high tech (the hardware side) and most of my employers have been in Kanata, so living in downtown Ottawa or Hull would be very inconvenient.
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A strawman argument nobody put forward. Nobody here is arguing that everybody should be living downtown. Though I would argue that proper planning and some modification of people's taste and expectations would see over 80% living inside the greenbelt.
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The other factors are people don't always work in the same part of the city as their spouse, and when people change jobs it isn't always practical to sell their home and move, especially if they have a family. I know that doesn't describe everyone, but you can't just paint everyone in the suburbs with the same brush.
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Ironically, the denser a city, the more families like this are helped because commutes become easier by transit. Right now, it's all but impractical to commute from Orleans to Kanata by transit. But if most were living inside the Greenbelt, that commute would get a lot easier.