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Originally Posted by cam_wmh
Which inner city communities don't allow MDU at the moment?
* Elbow Park
* Mount Royal
* Elboya
* Brittania
* Bel Aire
* Mayfair
* St Andrews
No Sliver, your half hour drive from Lake Bonaventure to anything urban, isn't under this consideration.  |
I'm not sure, I live and work in Vancouver.
I'm sure those areas allow some form of multi family developments on certain streets or lots but the type of development I'm recommending is more broad re zoning that takes that beyond the main corridors and corners.
Here is the Vancouver Cambie corridor plan as an example:
The lots along the main roads like Cambie or Oak Street were mostly rezoned for fairly high density condos, while the inner 4 to 5 blocks off the main streets were re zoned for townhouse developments.
You now have 3-4 single family houses being turned into 20-30 townhouse on many of these sites, thus increasing the density of the "missing middle" type properties that are large enough to have a small family but also in a prime location and walking distance to the skytrain.
Calgary may already be looking at stuff like this (I don't know). My recommendation was only that they should, and should before land values get incredibly high in those areas like they did in Vancouver.