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Originally Posted by GullFoss
I know you mean this as a joke, but this is what is gnawing at me about the housing policy. Did we just blanket wealthier neighborhoods because "soak the rich"?
If r-cg doesn't make sense for these neighborhoods, why blanket them r-cg?
If someone is a star surgeon who cures little kids of cancer and we pay them $2m per year. And then they want to live in upper Mount Royal in an exclusive r-1 community, why are you giving him stress for no reason? It doesn't increase affordability. It doesn't help the core of the housing policy. It doesn't increase density. Why do it?
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We blanketed everywhere R-CG vs RC-1/2 because there was no reason for them to be exclusively RC-1/2 in the first place and it was needless red tape on density. "Blanketing" it helps fix the supply problem.
If a star surgeon in upper Mount Royal wants to build a fancy SFH there's nothing stopping them but why should they get to control what their neighbours do with their property?
Also, if somebody wants to re-develop the property adjacent to the surgeon's fancy SFH and it doesn't fit into the community, he and the community association can still raise concerns about it at the Development Permit meeting.