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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture
there is a difference between a basement suite, which i dont mind, compared to a laneway house which now takes away any privacy the neighbour had in their backyard. i have lived next to a laneway house, and it is not something i plan to do again.
not to mention there were laneway issues such as way more garbage, issues with people parking where i couldn't access my garage. (yes i can call 311, but that doesn't help me leave for work in the morning). there were also some issues of more ground water in my yard from the increased non-permeable area next door. (once again they mitigate this, but it certainly was muddier than it was previously). i never had these issues with basement suites in the neighbourhood. i also noticed my backyard was a tad more warm in the summer. i can hazard a guess that the loss of green-space for the laneway house did increase the heat island effect. there was a hedge lost and tree (wasn't that big, but still some greenery). i can only go by my experiences living with one, and i did not enjoy it. it was detrimental to the quality of life that i had wanted by moving into a SFH neighbourhood. basement suites are hidden, out of the way, and don't impact others nearly as much as laneway houses do.
not everyone salivates over density everywhere. some people enjoy their privacy, peace and quiet away from others. not everyone wants to live ontop of one another. that just breeds conflict and noise and pollution.
i once liked the idea of living downtown, in the centre of the city, etc. but not anymore and certainly not after the pandemic. couple in the fact strata fees are insanely high these days and how shoddily built buildings are; its insane.
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It doesn't matter what people like or don't like: all the math points towards SFH neighbourhoods being impossible as a city gets bigger and bigger.
And nothing's stopping the NIMBYs from moving to Gibsons or Aldergrove - not many amenities, but there's plenty of detached houses and green space for everybody. Vancouver proper (and the inner suburbs, to a lesser extent) are very much beyond the point where you can have your cake and eat it too.
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