Community for the city of Vancouver, BC
According to CMHC we need to build 15000 - 18000 homes per year in Vancouver to catch up on housing supply. According to the city report, this proposal is expected to net 150 - 250 homes per year.
We just spent years of research, consultation, and council meetings to get us 1% of our needed supply. Our system is deeply broken and ABC are clearly not the ones to fix it.
That's good but there needs to be more, way more. We need to start mass rezoning.
Increasing housing density isn’t going to fix the problem of an infrastructure that’s not designed to handle it. Fewer single-family homes is great, but there needs also to be an emphasis on walkable communities, more emphasis on public transportation, and more emphasis on streets that are safe for biking.
I don’t see anywhere here prohibiting infrastructure expansion, this is a yes-and approach. All of the things you mentioned is infinitely more effective and cheaper with denser housing.
It’s all kinda moot in this context because this plan is virtually useless for bringing any real density. The city only expects 200 multiplexes a year.
The problem is that without those things, increased density creates a lot of problems: E.G. Traffic around Metrotown
Metrotown is miserable exactly because of our planning. It follows the North American style of density from the last 40 years where we only build 30-story towers or single family homes.
Urbanists are saying we should instead expand the missing middle density to build livable communities and upzone the entire metro area.
@RehRomano Political performative theatre: the CoV passed missing middle housing “reform” without meaningfully changing changing FSR or setbacks. Low density zoning in all but name.
FSR of 1 for an 8 unit multiplex? That's going to go over so well.
FSR of 1 for an 8 unit multiplex?
For those wondering, this is what FSR means:
FSR or floor space ratio was another key issue for many speakers at the meeting Thursday night.
This number dictates the size in square feet of a property that is allowed to be built in relation to the size of the whole lot.