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Originally Posted by EastVanMark
Agreed. A whole lot a hatin' goin on.
Young, starry eyed, idealistic, hipsters complete with like minded individuals at City Hall, who, for the most part make life choices where starting a family or business is out of the question so the condo lifestyle is great for them, just naturally try to impose their views of the world onto everyone else. This issue is amplified by greedy developers who salivate at the chance to reap yet more profits with such ways of thinking and subsequent city policies, and go out of their way to protect them.
For some reason its always a "one size fits all" approach in Vancouver, rather than recognizing that different people have different wants and needs, and planning and running your city accordingly.  |
I think this discussion is a lot more than just "hatin SFH". Higher density not only houses more people, it reduces everyone's ecological footprints, and enables munipalities to be more efficient and sustainable on managing growth. One example is that transit services can better serve higher density neighbourhoods, and thus their investments can be further justified.
The days of extensive urban sprawl is long gone, at least in large Canadian cities. In the Lower Mainland, this is not only because of a lack of land to expand, but also because sprawl has brought a whole hosts of problems, like wasted time on traffic jams, financial resources on building and maintaining roads and highways, encroachments into agricultural lands and green belts, increased pollution, etc. In terms of health issue, studies have also confirmed that folks living in the suburbs are less healthy, as opposed to people living in high-density neighbourhoods who can walk to shop, dine, and run numerous errands without having to drive.
In fact, contrary to what you are claiming, the present Vancouver's City Hall council is doing many things counter-productive to densification. And speaking of hipsters, many actually live near Main street area, which is a primarily low density residential neighbourhood.
I would say 95% of Vancouver's residential land is currently SFH, so why fret when some residents want a little more share of this land to be turned high-density? Remember, quoting from you, this is not a "one size fits all" approach. You also need to consider the increasing number of urban folks who are actually calling for higher density in this city.
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