Posted Sep 5, 2024, 5:08 PM
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That Winnipeg photo is eye-catching and a spectacular/interesting view of downtown from that location.
On the other hand it feels very wrong. Why would anyone choose to live there? I mean, sure you have easy access to the highway.. At least if you’re going to live along a major road you’d want to be higher than the tree line to have a great view of the landscape and less traffic noise. I get it - with the affordable prices of SFH they can’t build expensive mid or high-rises here or even higher quality 4-6 storey buildings and I’m sure these are helping with affordability. I’m starting to see more commentators talking about how building density right beside highways or busy roads is wrong for many reasons - could they have just a little bit of a greenbelt of trees and built in behind that? That looks to be the case on the right hand side of the photo, but I don’t know how that looks/works in this location in terms of sustainable density. On the left side it doesn’t look possible as there is an established neighbourhood in behind. I dunno, still forming my thoughts on this..
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