We’re not going to even address a housing issue by allowing a few laneway shacks. In that respect, this kind of debate is a waste of time.
I say this as someone whose flooring was “blue paint on plywood”; like, that kind of poor.
We need to build now. We need to build tall, we need to build mixed-use to encaps the services and commercial and maybe some hotel/sro space. We need to build hyper-dense so we can claw back some land for massive shared parks and tennis courts and whatever to cut down on the claustro.
… And we need to absolutely do it now; like, “no new lesser-density wood-frame fire-trap bullshit lowboy half-assed boxes” unless and until density is up.
And anything with 5 min walk of a station now pays a huge prop tax surcharge if they’re not a 50+ mixed-use tower, dammit.
But let’s be clear: a little more housing.
We’re not going to even address a housing issue by allowing a few laneway shacks. In that respect, this kind of debate is a waste of time.
I say this as someone whose flooring was “blue paint on plywood”; like, that kind of poor.
We need to build now. We need to build tall, we need to build mixed-use to encaps the services and commercial and maybe some hotel/sro space. We need to build hyper-dense so we can claw back some land for massive shared parks and tennis courts and whatever to cut down on the claustro.
… And we need to absolutely do it now; like, “no new lesser-density wood-frame fire-trap bullshit lowboy half-assed boxes” unless and until density is up.
And anything with 5 min walk of a station now pays a huge prop tax surcharge if they’re not a 50+ mixed-use tower, dammit.