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Originally Posted by SpongeG
'Inevitable decimation': Burnaby residents petition against B.C.'s transit-oriented housing rules
'Save Brentwood Park' petition seeks municipal support for exemptions from transit-oriented development rules.
Lauren Vanderdeen Apr 26, 2024
A group of concerned residents living in Burnaby’s Brentwood Park neighbourhood have filed a petition to be exempted from the province’s new legislation on transit-oriented development.
The rules will require cities, including Burnaby, to allow buildings with minimum heights of eight to 12 storeys within a ring 400 to 800 metres circling transit hubs like SkyTrain stations.
But Save Brentwood Park petition leader Edward Pereira said the law exposes his neighbourhood of single-family homes “to its inevitable decimation.”
Pereira said the coalition believes the 104 transit-oriented rings identified by the province deserve “bespoke application of the legislation” that considers local differences.
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https://www.burnabynow.com/local-new...-rules-8661993
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I really wish this emoji had eyes that rolled away to show how I really feel about this...
Yes the new rules mean that developers will be allowed to build taller next to Skytrain stations, etc - not that they're going to be able to kick people out of their homes and build mega towers everywhere
Right Now.
I live by Edmonds Station and it means any new buildings could be taller than a lot of what's here now. Plenty of the buildings are new enough that they won't be torn down anytime soon - but there are some older low rise buildings and SFH that I'm sure developers are eyeing.
This screams Nimby...
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He noted Brentwood Park, located in concentric streets radiating north of Brentwood mall, has been known for its “decades of low crime, neighbourliness and community wellness.”
Pereira said land assemblers have already been “circling like vultures, knocking on doors and sending us junk mail,” he wrote in the letter.
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Years ago (before any of this legislation) I got a strata wind up letter in the mail and yeah it did freak me out at first. Then I learned it was spam and tossed it, which is exactly what will happen if I get another one. It's really not that big of a deal. Hell we regularly get flyers from realtors as they have clients looking to buy into the area - I toss those into recycling too.
On a slightly different rant, decimate technically means to reduce by 1/10th - I'm pretty sure that's not what they mean when they wrote "inevitable decimation" of their neighbourhood.