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Originally Posted by Antigonish
What's infuriating is that Halifax's current built form already is "missing middle" i.e., dense row houses and large old homes easily convertible to apartments if need be.
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I think that's a matter of opinion. I'd describe typical inner-Halifax residential streets as dense suburbia. I don't think this can be called "missing middle"; it's mostly single-occupancy detached houses.
This is missing middle.
That said, this is a terrible building, and the problem is aesthetics, not scale. One problem I have with the YIMBY movement is an almost hostile disregard for aesthetics. But A: most people want to live in an attractive place, and B: When new developments look like bomb shelters, they spark a lot more backlash than if they were beautiful. I don't for one second believe the developer's comment that he had to build it this way to conform with code. That's ridiculous. There are better looking buildings of similar scale going up elsewhere. In fact, there's an 11-metre building going up right now
here, Creighton and Buddy Daye, enabled by the Housing Accelerator Fund, which IS being clad in cedar siding. It looks simple but attractive, not at all like this shelving unit for humans in the story.
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