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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
The plan gets submitted to City Council by late 2020. Even a year of sitting on it means construction is ahead of the Broadway SkyTrain in 2025 (though I'm not sure why it's a race).
Arbutus to UBC isn't even funded yet, so I'm not sure why a freeze is a problem. |
Generally during a housing crisis you want to build more housing. A freeze down Broadway until 2021 given that things take 5 years to build means things won’t even be ready for the 2025 skytrain completion, much less to help our housing supply.
As for the freeze past Arbutus, that means potentially nothing will get built there to help affordability or housing supply for half a decade or longer. The NIMBYs will be so happy.
It does not take more than two years to plan these things out. A plan should take slightly less than a year tops.
And btw given the Granville Greenway, the greenest city initiative which is calling for high density down transit corridors near jobs, the metro 2040 plan with indicates high density job space and living space along Broadway and in downtown, expect towers down Broadway between Granville and Cambie. Don’t need to speculate there’s been a lot of information the CoV has pumped out to indicate high density down the corridor. I’m surprised there hasn’t been a feeding frenzy of land purchases even with the market being down.
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