And final context, the City of Victoria is small, at only 19.47 sq km and one of 13 municipalities in Greater Victoria. It accounts for 30% of new home construction activity.
In addition to the map tracker I'm trying different ways to visualize the Victoria activity, such as
this page of MappingVictoria where I break it down into categories.
A fun piece I just finished is a visual one page scrolling summary without all the detail but one pic of each project with a link to it so the viewer can get a quick overview. I should have all of City of Victoria under construction and proposals and I included a few of interest from Saanich, Esquimalt - sorry Langford, but it's too far away for me to be overly concerned with. It would be cool to see that for other cities but it would really have to be broken down into smaller chunks for the big ones. I like the idea of seeing all the proposals, not just the highlights, so showing the good, the bad and the ugly. I have a theory in terms of development quality:
25% of new projects are good to excellent, 50% not bad, and 25% could use improvement. In that 25% maybe 5% are truly excellent, perhaps up to 7 or 8. I think this holds true for most cities as yes we'll see 20 excellent proposals from Toronto but then there's 100 not so good ones. That said it's also fair to say that generally speaking the larger the city the better the quality, by a good but not a large margin.
Ok, enough rambling, if you want to see images of
ALL Under Construction in Victoria click on that link.
All Major Proposals (plus a couple in Greater Victoria as note)
and a select few from the
Smaller Proposed Projects (under 100 homes).
Keep in mind there's several affordable and supportive shelter housing buildings in this list, and a mixed use storage unit building, lol.
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