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Originally Posted by Williamoforange
Yeah, I get that done here don't really grasp how bad housing is in Ottawa, or how severely the city restricts where any growth can go (nvm, that some here argue 12 stories is too much for around a MTSA)
So as it stands the acceptance of this argument from agri-Canada will result in the possible cancellation of over 1218 units of housing amongst just 1081 Carling and 780 baseline rd.
And I'm fine if we accept this argument but if it is then the neighborhoods around it must accept the consequence, and that consequence is the removal of zoning restrictions to allow mid-rise throughout their neighborhoods. At those losses that will require ~19 other 9 story (62 units from the 1110 Fischer dev) towers to replace them. Cause somewhere else isn't where the demand is.
P.S this exact argument is being used against 780 baseline as per the "as we heard it report"
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The housing crisis is not caused by the City. It's caused by inflation, labour shortages, and more recently, high interest rates and other factors. Thousands upon thousands of units are approved but not u/c. That's not the City's fault.
That aside, the housing emergency will eventually subside. Could take a few years, could take decades, but the climate emergency and it's effects are a much bigger threat to society as a whole. If, and only IF, the research is truly threatened by shadows that could skew the results do to inconsistent data year over year, then that's a conversation the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the City and Province have to have. And if that's the case, upzoning everything else (and it already has by the City partially, and the Province finished the job) won't help.
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