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Originally Posted by WarrenC12
The West End probably didn't start with those transportation dynamics, yet it worked out well.
Of course we know where the stations will be.
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If I wasn't clear, nearly three times the West End population walk or bike to work than the West Point Grey population. That proximity to Downtown has always been there, and has always allowed residents to commute without a car, or using transit. That's never likely to be true west of Arbutus.
And while we think we know where the stations will be, we could be wrong. The City expected a station at Oak. They even reserved a possible station access in the new office building that Bosa built there. But the station, even though it's called Oak VGH, is actually located a block away.
The current geotechnical survey work might show potential problems for the currently anticipated locations, which would mean they get moved. It wouldn't make any sense to approve development in advance of knowing the accurate station locations, and how much of the street frontage will need to be acquired by the Province or TransLink to allow construction to take place.
This isn't a case of never allowing significant future density, it's just being intelligent about when to proceed with detailed planning, once it's decided exactly how and where (and ideally when), the line will be built. In the meantime there are other policies that allow some new development to proceed.