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Originally Posted by Keith P.
Well, our leaders on Council wilfully chose to destroy single-family areas on many parts of the peninsula and central Dartmouth to upzone small single-family lots to allow 4 and 6-unit buildings, thereby destroying the character of those areas in return for a sack of JT gold. That is a far greater disservice to a much larger group of taxpayers.
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Allowing for the construction of small apartment complexes in residential areas as of right will not suddenly "destroy the character" of those areas. Classic suburban NIMBY rhetoric. What it will allow for is for the areas to gradually densify as demand sees fit, imrpoving the viability of those neighborhoods in a growing city.
I believe that historically protected structures will be exempt or somehow protected from the as-of-right upzoning, such that at the very least architectural continuity will be required if a building is added on to turn it from a sfh to a 4-plex, for example.
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