Burnaby adopted the province’s Small Scale Multiplex legislation in their zoning bylaws with probably the most generous (best) implementation- single family lots allowed up to 4 stories, generous
lot coverage, even townhomes. The NIMBYs pushed back: open.substack.com/pub/morehous...

Burnaby’s SSMUH changes in a nutshell

All the “proud” pages are hideous and grotesque, cherry picked “news” stories designed to bait the most awful side of us.

At the very least, join the EU abacusdata.ca/what-canadia...

Copenhagan is actually quite suburban, they just put separated cycle paths everywhere they put sidewalks, even in suburbs. Try dropping a few google street view pins outside of the centre.

Maybe some kind of secondary independent panel (jury?) whether to permit or allow the notwithstanding clause use. Tricky problem to solve.

They get off at specific stops too, there was a study done on it in London, the pigeons knew how to use the tube.

Maybe time to mobilize a Strong Towns Montreal group or similar? or is there one already?

Well a small minority is happy and aren’t willing to sacrifice anything to help raise up others.

Nice, I’ve always liked Rufus. Want One is one of my favourite albums.

Love to see it! BC offering the Covid and Flu shots for free to anyone who wants one is the same line of thinking - other jurisdictions have increased the fees as part of “cost cutting” but you just end up with more sick people using more healthcare resources in the long term.

For a population of 156K it would be a significant increase for sure paying back over $600mil quickly. The entire “debt plan” hinges on future development fees, the idea of an alternative hasn’t even been contemplated.

If smaller villages and towns had good frequent fast passenger rail service in Canada this would be a more popular choice instead of having to remain within driving commuting distance in a suburb.

It’s probably the biggest cause of NIMBY/YIMBY conflict. The earlier arrivals moved to the suburbs because they chose and wanted that specific lifestyle. Later arrivals move there because it’s more affordable.

And the new facilities and road widening is being built at enormous cost, $154 million for the Soccer Facility alone.

However to fix it means taking on debt, and to pay it back means more development fees now at a high rate, so the “fixes” are also designed to incentivize even more growth. Roads overbuilt, the new facilities placed at the edges near greenfield.

The downside was Willoughby had quite patchy infrastructure, rural roads becoming congested, missing sidewalks, no library, no facilities, etc. This was capitalized on by the current administration at the last election who promised to “fix it”

It’s quite a long and complicated story. Langley Township actually had exceptionally low development fees frozen for around 12 years until 2022 which caused a building boom. The plus side was developers took bigger risks in unproven areas, building townhouses and some apartments on greenfield.

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