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Originally Posted by accord1999
Which is a slow and convoluted process compared to new housing supply offered by greenfield development at all price ranges. Supposedly blanket rezoning will only add up to 1500 new units a year.
Up-zoning can be helpful as a supplement, but too often anti-sprawl groups try to make it as the primary new housing option and prevent growth on the edge.
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It is odd how that particular strategy sucks up all the oxygen about the housing crisis. Not just with opponents, but with proponents who reserve all their anger and frustration over housing for NIMBY’s and restrictive zoning. You can read hundreds of comments online about housing affordability where nothing but up-zoning and the goddamn NIMBYs who stand in its way are brought up. I guess it’s an attractive framing because it has a target - stupid people to get angry at.
Once people hit middle age, they typically stay in their homes a long, long time. Often until they die. So the densification of neighbourhoods through upzoning is measured in decades. Even after this bylaw passes, we’ll be left with huge annual housing shortfalls in this city. When do we move on to talking about how those will be addressed?