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Originally Posted by blankall
If you want to really deal with supply issues, you need to open up a significant amount of zoning at once. Otherwise, you end up in a situation where new builds are slowly trickled into the market and never actually satisfy demand.
That being said, obviously there needs to be a lot of planning and foresight into which areas actually get upzoned, with transportation being a major consideration. For example, you should be pushing for upzoning along major arteries, transit lines, and in central neighbourhoods. A lot of these areas are already rundown to begin with, so I don't see how putting in new builds with their own amenities decreases the character of any of these neighbourhoods.
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I think we're saying the same thing?
To be clear, I think we should be focussing on upzoning along arterial roads, along with under-utilized commercial properties. If you take inner city SW Calgary, I'm thinking Elbow Dr, Richmond Rd, 50 / 33 / 26 / 17 aves & 14 / 20 / 33 / 37 streets... That's probably dozens of kms of frontage, all with existing transit infrastructure.
Napkin-mathing that as 24kms of linear development, divided by 6m of frontage for your average 2 story, 3 bedroom row/townhouse, you get about 4,000 units or housing for more than 10,000 people. And that's the lowest of the low-hanging fruit as far as built form goes. If you go to a 4 story condo,
like this new development in Marda Loop, you get 74 units over about 80 linear meters, or roughly 1 unit per meter... You're now accomodating >30,000 people by upzoning just those 8 streets (not including Richmond and Elbow), and that's barely scratching the surface.
IMO, once that's more established / exhausted, then we can start knocking on Sliver's door to build a midblock 4-plex in Bonavista.