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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
This kind of law would not encourage the development of mixed use communities and would drive up the cost of office space.
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If you remember in May 2012, there was a report on the health of Canada`s downtowns, looking at 10 cities across the country. Ottawa`s Downtown had the lowest proportion of the cities office space (40%, as I suggest should stay). Here are the other cities from the highest proportion to the lowest;
1. London (81%) - according to the study, they have a bylaw stating that any office development over 5000 sqm has to be built downtown.
2. Winnipeg (77%)
3. Vancouver (73%)
4. Edmonton (65%)
5. Victoria (58%)
6. Fredericton (56%)
7. Toronto (53%)
8. Saskatoon (53%)
9. Halifax (46%)
I would want a 40% firm on downtown, 70% in the greenbelt (including downtown) which would be allowed to deviate 10% on each side and 10% for each suburban areas (Kanata-Stitsville, Barrhaven-Riverside South, Orleans), which would allow to deviate by 5% either way. An since no one will ever propose a million square foot complex in Richmond, I would not regulate the rural areas.
So if Ottawa has around 50 million square feet of office space, this is how office space would be divided;
• Downtown-20 million square feet
• Inside Greenbelt-30 million square feet
• Suburbs-3.3 million square feet each
• Rural, not counted in city wide total for the purpose of this bylaw.
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