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Originally Posted by Vin
Not entirely true. The Urban Village footprints in Burnaby are huge. Looking at the map of the city, the SFH proportion looks small, and is getting even smaller. By comparison, Vancouver's is way larger, even when you have Oakridge centre factored in. Burnaby itself has four huge town centres, and even though they butt against SFH areas, other multi-family and Urban Village zones more than make up for the desired densities.
As for those SFH areas adjacent to the town centres: when the latter are completely built up, there will be more acceptance for high density to encroach the low density neighbourhoods simply because the residents are already used to having high rises around. Not so much in Vancouver: even the mid-density residents are fighting tooth and nail to prevent more density to enter their hoods, as in the case of West Broadway, Commercial/Broadway, Kerrisdale, Kitsilano, and pretty much everywhere outside downtown.
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No. Entirely true. There's no "comparison" to make: Burnaby's official town centre plans
literally involve densifying all the walkups and warehouses and leaving the SFHs alone.
I do commend them for working up the guts to oppose the militant NIMBYs in
Royal Oak,
Bainbridge and
Cascade Heights, and to zone for laneways
whether or not locals want them... though they're about fifteen years behind Vancouver in both areas.
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