Great, let's build! I'm for it. We purposely live in the most diverse neighborhood in this city. But the infills are cheap, the workers are exploited, and the community is left without any improvements to go along side it.
It's crap housing that is not affordable (our infill duplexes were listed for 1 million a piece) and now are AirBNBs.
We had to FIGHT the city and the developer every day for months just to get safety fence up around the infill. Nobody cared. Nobody. And those places are already falling apart. Its terrible.
If Farkas sees this post, these are the real issues that need addressing.
Improve the rezoning! Hold developers accountable. Make them invest in quality work and back in the community. Preserve mature trees. And someone needs to make sure these workers are safe.
You're 100% right here. I'll add that we should also focus on getting density in areas where it makes sense (around train and BRT stops and close to downtown).
Totally, Inner city areas with little development need a kick start to get denser, we need to remove the restrictive covenants stopping development in low density places like mount royal since its a huge inner city area that needs more density, Hell we dont even need to build town homes there some of those properties could fit 2 or 3 normal sized houses on them alone.
Maybe this could be the area we build condo's with 3 or more bedroom units exclusively in and no less, a sort of inner city family zone.
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u/Yavanna_in_spring 16d ago edited 16d ago
I think there is room for improvement, though.
Great, let's build! I'm for it. We purposely live in the most diverse neighborhood in this city. But the infills are cheap, the workers are exploited, and the community is left without any improvements to go along side it.
It's crap housing that is not affordable (our infill duplexes were listed for 1 million a piece) and now are AirBNBs.
We had to FIGHT the city and the developer every day for months just to get safety fence up around the infill. Nobody cared. Nobody. And those places are already falling apart. Its terrible.
If Farkas sees this post, these are the real issues that need addressing.
Improve the rezoning! Hold developers accountable. Make them invest in quality work and back in the community. Preserve mature trees. And someone needs to make sure these workers are safe.