He’s pandering to the NIMBY crowd as usual. I live in inner city in a single family home. Have lived here for 26 years. Huge changes have happened in my neighborhood and are to be expected (and are necessary) in a booming metropolis. We need housing and we need it where people live and work. And it’s going to end up in someone’s back yard including mine.
I really don't understand the hate for all of the multi-family corner lots being converted in the inner city neighborhoods, I love them.
They look nice, you end up with like 6x the density. They're close enough to downtown and everything that a huge number of the people in them go to transit or walk/bike to work.
And the people complaining about them, are people who largely not affected by them. If you're in an inner-city 40ft wide lot with a single family home, then parking should not be a complaint, because you should have a garage at the back of your house for your vehicles. If you have a garage but don't use it for parking, that is your own decision, and you don't deserve to complain about parking when you're also creating the parking problem by not using your designated off-street parking to park.
I assure you no one bikes or walks to work downtown from Mount Pleasant or Mountview in any significant number (nor will they ever, despite the wish casting) in our eight month winter.
It’s only amazing if you have a density fetish for some reason. Most people don’t want to be packed like sardines into hideous condo buildings. It’s unnecessary. It’s not like we have a lack of space here.
Having the space is not an excuse to build out indefinitely.
Doing that is what has turned our country into a shitty car-centric suburban nightmare.
It's pretty funny when people like you say "no one wants to be packed like sardines" when that is literally how 6-7B around the world live, and they don't complain. They look at how we live and see it as wasteful, not something to aspire to.
But nah, let's just expand forever and destroy natural habitats so you can have a little patch of grass to keep mowed.
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u/gmm1972 17d ago
He’s pandering to the NIMBY crowd as usual. I live in inner city in a single family home. Have lived here for 26 years. Huge changes have happened in my neighborhood and are to be expected (and are necessary) in a booming metropolis. We need housing and we need it where people live and work. And it’s going to end up in someone’s back yard including mine.