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Originally Posted by misher
Generally during a housing crisis you want to build more housing. A freeze down Broadway until 2021 given that things take 5 years to build means things won’t even be ready for the 2025 skytrain completion, much less to help our housing supply.
As for the freeze past Arbutus, that means potentially nothing will get built there to help affordability or housing supply for half a decade or longer. The NIMBYs will be so happy.
It does not take more than two years to plan these things out. A plan should take slightly less than a year tops.
And btw given the Granville Greenway, the greenest city initiative which is calling for high density down transit corridors near jobs, the metro 2040 plan with indicates high density job space and living space along Broadway and in downtown, expect towers down Broadway between Granville and Cambie. Don’t need to speculate there’s been a lot of information the CoV has pumped out to indicate high density down the corridor. I’m surprised there hasn’t been a feeding frenzy of land purchases even with the market being down.
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2020. '21 is an imaginary worst case scenario. Personally, I want the development starting after or at least in tandem with the subway - Broadway's going to be a nightmare for all users already, it doesn't need a dozen tower construction sites adding to it.
What you're asking for sounds awfully like an uncontrolled boom... which is usually followed by a bust (market settling, political pushback, etc), and then the cycle repeats again. NIMBYs or no NIMBYs, steady growth works better.
Since we don't even know
where past Arbutus the SkyTrain or stations will go, taking a quick break to get everything lined up is entirely understandable. I believe that Jericho's its own thing and proceeding regardless.
Such is the price of Western democracy. Human civilization only gets a choice between two years of consultation or a complete rush job that everybody ends up regretting.
Absolutely - the scramble's been
well-documented, hence the freeze. Otherwise the subway will end up running into the $3-4 billion range. Rest assured, Density is Coming.