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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
When you look at residential neighbourhoods built in Calgary today vs ones built in the 60s to 80s, we’re already seeing that. New houses are built much closer together and with much smaller yards. Personally I could never live in a newer neighbourhood - I need my privacy and trees. But developers are already densifying, because buyers of new homes today are willing to sacrifice yard size for house square footage.
As for moving away from single-family dwellings more dramatically, the oversupply of condos in Canadian cities show that you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.
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Your Older lot should be taxed like 2 modern burb lots so that you pay for the displacement you cause. Nothing inherently wrong with your choice you should just pay for the implications of your choice.
Developers aren’t densifying. The city requires certain densities as part of the development. The city is preventing the offloading of Long term costs to the future.