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Originally Posted by whatnext
For example, did you realize that in dense Japan 60% of the population lives in SFH?
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Get back to me when someone can build 8 Japanese-size single-family homes on that one massive lot.
I am very familiar with Japanese zoning, and you're comparing apples to oranges. Japanese low-rise residential zoning is *massively* more permissive than North American SFH zoning. It's also not single-family (or even two-family) zoning - people can divide their house into as many suites as they want, as long as it meets building code.
This sort of low-rise Tokyo neighbourhood, predominantly SFHs, would be illegal in at least 5 ways (setbacks, minimum lot size, FAR maximum, # of suites allowed, parking) in that Richmond neighbourhood or even in Vancouver's RS-1.