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Originally Posted by Sheba
I think what we're seeing with this is a way to add density without annoying the nimbys. Yes they live in the suburbs too and they want a house with a yard and the very idea of a tower terrifies them. However buying up block of SFH and replacing it with townhouses, rowhouses, etc only potentially causes a little bit of grumbling. Then developers start making entire new neighbourhoods of that with the occasional building with ground floor retail with a few floors of office or residential above on a busier street. Again only minor grumbling, more about a planned community lacking character than an 'OMG it's a tower I'm going to have a heart attack!'
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It could be that, demographically, the people now living in the suburbs did at one time live in a downtown condo or apartment tower, whereas the "gray hairs" on the West Side of Vancouver may be less likely to have lived in (and therefore less receptive) to that form of housing.