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Originally Posted by Vin
Lougheed is piecemeal? Lol. You should see what's taking shape there compared to much, much older Vancouver neighbourhoods like Oakridge, Kerrisdale, Commercial-Broadway or Kitsilano, which remain low-density and highly unaffordable. You can blabber all you want about Vancouver but it is the suburb municipalities that are creating densities beautifully, and fast.
Burnaby has the guts to approve the talls to the SFH lots, meaning given time, these SFH dwellers will also have to let go of their properties if offered the right price. Vancouver is the one that lacks guts to deal with SFHs, except those along a select few arterial roads.
Height's got everything to do with urbanism and affordability, no matter how much you want to deny it.
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Feel free to compare how many low-density homes Lougheed is rezoning against any of those CoV neighbourhoods. It will lose. Once they run out of warehouses, that's all the density Burnaby will ever have unless they follow Vancouver.
Any new "talls" or even "shorts" proposed/U-C in Garden Village or Lochdale, like in Dunbar, Oak or Grandview-Woodland? Nope. They're rezoning a tiny chunk of Bainbridge Avenue for lowrises, and that's it.
Yes, Brentwood's extra 1-bedroom condos starting at half a million CAD are really going to help the metro's affordability. Nothing at all to do with NIMBYism everywhere else in the area or developers' pockets...
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