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Originally Posted by FurnaceFace
There is a new build going in basically across the street. It was a SFH on a corner lot that for many years had renters in it. It was knocked down and is in the process of being replaced with four attached row houses for lack of a better term. They basically turned a bungalow into a big two story building. It remains to be seen, but I don’t see how this will detract from my home value. My hope is it brings in four new home owners who will care about things vs renters who don’t.
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This is exactly what will happen with respect to changing the minimum zoning to R-CG. For the most part rowhouse developments are limited to corner lots because the minimum unit width facing a street on a given parcel is 4.2 metres. On a 50-feet-wide lot that means a max of three units (50' = ~15 m), whereas if you build on a corner lot the length allows you to build four or five units. Combined with the other contextual rules in the Land Use Bylaw, a mid-block 50'Wx100'+L lot typically can't accommodate a contextual rowhouse building anyway and the effective maximum size of development, even with the R-CG zoning, is just a side-by-side semi-detached duplex. (EDIT: N.B. the max size of a semi-detached building in this case would be the same as the max size of new single detached house anyway.)