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Originally Posted by HamiltonForward
The Greenbelt has not been the main cause of rising housing costs.
I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion the province needs to take more planning power away from cities. Places to Grow should be updated with higher density targets in more areas.
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I've been saying that the solution to the affordability crisis is easy.
- 3 story minimum across the entire city, period
- 4-5 story goal across the city
- parkland every Xkm^2
- all streets must be straight/grid pattern with no dead ends (unless absolutely necessary and/or can be explained to exist for a good reason.
- all buildings must aim to be mixed use
- all retail and commercial must assume nobody within 1km will drive, and therefore only generate parking for those who would realistically be driving, depending on the rarity of the type of store (ex. coffee shop would have almost no parking, or none)
- rental buildings pay no property tax for 5 years and will not be subject to rent controls for 25 years
Just force the city to build like Paris. The value of detached homes and their respective property taxes would increase, and housing developments would be bought up to redevelop into condos and rentals.
I don't believe it will ever happen, but at the very least Elrida could build a Locke St/James StN/Ottawa St style dense area. So everyone doesn't need to drive literally everywhere. Would help with transit too.