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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
I believe we've all had this conversation before in the Mount Pleasant thread. Yeah, you probably won't see anything above six floors.
Fixed. Lougheed, sure, but it's slight, piecemeal development; Oakridge, see below.
Correct. Point is, Burnaby and all the others have only been building tall so that they keep inside the C and I zoning or demovict "mere" renters, and won't have to touch the SFHs (Grand Bargain and all that). The height's got nothing to do with urbanism or affordability or any crap like that, and everything to do with them not having the balls to challenge suburbistan like Vancouver's doing.
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Well, what do you mean by 'all the others'? Surrey Central, Richmond, Guildford, and Langley City have no problem with demoing old SFHs (mostly). Granted, mostly still smaller-scale, but that's since they simply haven't been developed enough for the smaller lots to be that appealing to most developers.
It's the inner suburbs that have issues with SFH NIMBYs (ironically, they have the most that
should be torn-down.
Even then, the fact there's relatively few issues with tearing down SFHs in the outer suburbs gives me some hope the inner suburbs will eventually catch up.
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