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Originally Posted by J.OT13
More numbers in the central core:
Downtown: 15.5%
Centretown: 8.6%
Lowertown: 5.2% (but that will shoot way up once the Rideau towers are all completed)
Island of Hull: 20.3%
Old Ottawa East: 20.9%
Mechanicsville: 10.1%
Glebe: 3.1%
Pretty much everything in pre-war Ottawa gained a decent amount of population.
Meanwhile, central Montreal has either decreased, or gained very little, with a few exceptions. Same with Quebec City.
Toronto is a mixed bag, with huge gains and huge loses in the central area.
We can really see that Ottawa's policies encourage growth in streetcar suburbs in the core compared to Toronto and Montreal.
Before criticizing the Glebe's respectable 3.1%, check out the huge loses in similar Toronto areas.
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As you point out, at the neighbourhood level, a couple of projects can make a massive difference. At 1.5 people per unit, you need about 80 new units in a neighbourhood of 12,000 to grow by 1%. A project like Lansdowne or Royale would change these neighbourhood numbers by approximately 3-4% all on their own.
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