Surprised this hasn’t been posted on here yet, but this project has been delayed yet again:

Jamesville Hearing Set for May 2024 as City, CN, CityHousing, and Developers Continue to Meet​

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Jamesville Hearing Set for May 2024 as City, CN, CityHousing, and Developers Continue to Meet

No deal out of August confidential mediation. Parties continue to talk.
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Does anyone know how long it took for the Townhouse Complex on Studholme in the middle of the Chedoke Golf Course to get approval?
Those homes are literally 100 ft. from an active rail yard.
 
How were the Barton & Magill Row Houses approved & built when they are less than 500m from a very active (and very noisy) rail yard, yet these Jamesville CityHousing units 100m from an semi-active sunken train station (that blocks noise) can’t be built?

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And for context, the Beddoe Townhomes in Ainsleywood were built right beside an active rail yard in the 1990s (though the yard-facing sides have only a few tiny windows)

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There could be a bright side to all these delays if it could somehow lead the City and the developers to scrap the completely awful plan as it's currently proposed. The Province just announced yesterday that it would honour Hamilton's desire for a frozen urban boundary, while the City of Hamilton is seeking feedback on a plan to have 150 people and jobs per hectare (ie. 18,000 people living within 800 metres) of West Harbour GO station, and yet they are planning to go ahead with stack townhouses on this multi-acre site. Here's hoping there's a way for all parties to go back to the drawing board!!
 
jta5 said:
There could be a bright side to all these delays if it could somehow lead the City and the developers to scrap the completely awful plan as it's currently proposed. The Province just announced yesterday that it would honour Hamilton's desire for a frozen urban boundary, while the City of Hamilton is seeking feedback on a plan to have 150 people and jobs per hectare (ie. 18,000 people living within 800 metres) of West Harbour GO station, and yet they are planning to go ahead with stack townhouses on this multi-acre site. Here's hoping there's a way for all parties to go back to the drawing board!!
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Regent Park is closer to how the Jamesville Redevelopment should be planned. There should be space for more retail, more affordable housing, even a co-op. There could still be market housing too, but far less parking should be required to reduce costs.

The increased density could also provide additional space for more park space or community space like a small community centre, small library, public pool, programmable interior/exterior space, etc.
 
RitsmaCW said:
Regent Park is closer to how the Jamesville Redevelopment should be planned. There should be space for more retail, more affordable housing, even a co-op. There could still be market housing too, but far less parking should be required to reduce costs.

The increased density could also provide additional space for more park space or community space like a small community centre, small library, public pool, programmable interior/exterior space, etc.
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Regent Park’s concept is good, though there’s lots of criticism about how affordable the area actually is today compared to pre-2009.

Jamesville’s site is way too small for a Regent Park-esq development, unless the City incorporated the Tiffany Lands (which is currently planned as a Film Studio Work-Live development).

A full-scale RP-style development could (read: should) be done at Centre Mall if the City got serious.

They could also partner with Developers, Banks and the Province to provide first-time home buyer’s plans like Regent Park did, where down payments were waived so long as the buyer didn’t sell until their mortgage was paid off.

This type of plan + at least 20% city housing, 20% below-market units and 20+% 3-bed units could really help that part of the city!

…then we could start lobbying for a GO Station there, too!!
 
Disclaimer: I know Montreal’s 20-20-20 Housing Plan isn’t going exactly as planned, as apparently the fines to not build affordable units are way too low, but at least that city has a plan.

montreal.ctvnews.ca

Developers prefer to pay a fine than to build affordable housing in Montreal

With affordable housing on the minds of many Canadians and every level of government, the opposition at City Hall says a key part of Montreal's housing plan has been catastrophic.
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In Hamilton, the only plan I can make out from our leaders is “Ask Upper Levels Of Government For More Money”.
 
DC83 said:
Regent Park’s concept is good, though there’s lots of criticism about how affordable the area actually is today compared to pre-2009.
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From what I recall, the original Regent Park plan called for the replacement of all the affordable housing, not an increase.
 
christiesplits said:
From what I recall, the original Regent Park plan called for the replacement of all the affordable housing, not an increase.
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Phases 1-3 only replaced I believe, correct.

Phases 4 and 5, starting now, will result in a net increase from my understanding however.

Regent Park is still the most affordable area of the wider downtown for newer condo buildings.
 
This would be too comical if it were not so sad. How is it possible that these two sides are left to their own devices and the OLT can't say enough. Meanwhile the affordable housing crisis ranges on (nice that our strong mayor can make things happen in Stoney Creek for the same cause), and the north end community has to suffer with urban blight for yet another year.
 
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