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Originally Posted by chemgear
Reminds me of what Burnaby did. Basically embraced the blanket rezoning and then saw the consequences and the results of that. Then they said wait a sec, this is #### and not what we wanted and started to roll it back.
Some of these monstrosities are hilarious. Well, hilarious if you don't live there.
Burnaby, a city of about 250,000 residents just east of Vancouver, introduced multiplex housing in July last year, when the province mandated most B.C. municipalities to allow between four and six homes on single-family lots.
Former B.C. MLA and Burnaby resident Kathy Corrigan said it’s true that she’s a “NIMBY” — “not in my backyard.”
“I definitely don’t want it in my backyard towering over … four storeys high. No, I don’t want it in my neighbourhood,” she said.
Mayor Mike Hurley says the city is listening to residents and not just caving to NIMBYism.
He said he’s been hearing complaints for months, including from people who don’t usually voice concerns.[/I]
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I'm starting to see lots of 3 storey above grade construction for infills or even new single detached homes. I'm personally curious whether it's a fad or whether it's going to be here to stay (like the 2nd story was in the 60s). In my opinion they look horribly ugly and really out of scale (like way too tall for its base).
I'm sure people said the same thing about the 2-storey home though.
A lot might be fixed just with a more reasonable height limitation that doesn't allow a 3rd story (or it'd be an extremely undesirable 3 story with 8 foot ceilings or something).