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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
That's above the standard for Downtown Burlington, which would actually likely have higher demand than this location.
Downtown Burlington is mostly larger units for retirees, who are more likely to own a car, and also doesn't have access to GO for commuting. You could live in this development without a car, work in Toronto / Mississauga, and get by pretty easily. Walmart right next door for groceries, local amenities in the retail at grade, good bus service as you are right on top of the bus terminal for the GO station to access different parts of Burlington.
It's still Burlington at the end of the day, so parking rates would probably still have to be fairly high. My guess is they could get away with something closer to 0.9/unit instead of 1.2, with 0.15 of that being visitor and 0.75 being resident.
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I'd be fine with anything lower, but I will continue to argue that no parking minimum is required. Burlington was designed around car use, but forcing people to own a parking spot is one of the weirdest things that exists today in my mind in relation to developments. The developer will build the number of parking spots it thinks is required to sell these units, and those units will be purchased by people without cars. The reality is that people will not walk 20 minutes to their car on some random side street, and Burlington doesn't have 12 hour parking like Hamilton so it's not like that's even an option.
I also think it's ridiculous that people on this forum argue against red tape, and height limits and other regulations increasing risk, and decreasing the number of housing units, but will vehemently defend legally required parking space minimums.
Some of these developments are ridiculous. 3000 vehicles? That's just insane. We need to think about removing parking minimums altogether if this is how we are going to build density.