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Originally Posted by Bigtime

Interesting analysis of the proposed blanket rezoning that has so many people worried. Would love to hear expert take away on this, Willem Klumpenhouwer is pretty level headed so I think it is worth looking at.

https://moreneighbourscalgary.substa...utm_medium=web

I don't disagree with the overarching point that the prevalence of rowhouses isn't going to be anywhere near as high in a short time frame as opponents to this would have us believe, but I don't think Willem does himself any favours by presenting this as just some "cute widdoe rowhouses " going up sporadically. In many cases they are much, much larger masses as compared to the single-storey bungalows they're replacing and that they neighbour adjacent to (for now...). Not to say we don't need more of this to make this city more sound from a planning and financial standpoint, but it's stuff like this that makes urbanists come across as effete ######nozzles to a lot of people.

I had to laugh at the remark "If each of these four units comes with a basement suite built in (they definitely won’t all do that)," because that's exactly what happened with the one down the street from me... I'm just glad I'm not the immediate neighbour; to say having an eight-unit rowhouse building go up ain't no big thing for that homeowner is a slap in the face.