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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Dog whistle to "removing gatekeepers". Who is gatekeeping in homebuilding? The homebuilders... but that's clearly not who is meant in this policy. My take is that this is a reference to city planners and urbanists who want to end sprawl. Sprawl = more taxes for everyone. Hard to fight affordability through imposition of more taxes.
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Why does it have to sprawl? Why can't it be density? Unlike Calgary, a lot of cities (e.g. Vancouver) are geographically constrained and will have to densify to meet their targets, as they can't sprawl even if they want to.