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TAS
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The_Cat
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Tale of two cities: Why Edmonton builds homes faster than Toronto - National | Globalnews.ca
Toronto is lagging cities such as Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver, where housing starts are on the rise. They're falling in Toronto, and experts say city policy is a culprit.
globalnews.ca
TAS
Senior Member
Tale of two cities: Why Edmonton builds homes faster than Toronto - National | Globalnews.ca
Toronto is lagging cities such as Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver, where housing starts are on the rise. They're falling in Toronto, and experts say city policy is a culprit.
A lot of positive coverage outside the city when it comes to our ZBR however internally the story is a bit different. Will be interesting to see how it plays out in municipal election.
David A
Senior Member
It is great in theory, but when it is your neighbourhood some large new buildings that don't fit in well are being built in, that is a different story.
I wish councilors who were on holidays would have been around to vote for some of the changes, it would have helped quell the rising concern.
I wish councilors who were on holidays would have been around to vote for some of the changes, it would have helped quell the rising concern.
trevorhayden
Active Member
If NIMBYs think an 8 unit row house is a big new building, they should come to Vancouver where 50 floor towers are being built next to historic homes.
kcantor
Senior Member
Examples?
David A
Senior Member
I find the Vancouver examples off putting because when it comes to location, climate and physical constraints our city is nothing like Vancouver.
Might as well be comparing Tibet and Saskatchewan.
BrettB
Active Member
Search for the Broadway Plan. Fencing has gone up on E 10th Ave to protect the trees at the first houses to fall to high-rise development. Plus council is being asked tomorrow to rezone almost 5,000 properties to some form of high-rise.
Kosy123
Senior Member
Council takes step to repeal process for blanket rezoning, next step is public hearing
Calgary city council took the next step toward scrapping blanket rezoning Monday.
calgaryherald.com
Tale of 2 cities. If this holds up, I'm curious to see the differences between us and Calgary in the next 5-10 years.
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
Hopefully it's positive for Edmonton, but the more affordable we stay, the more speculative investment from BC/Ontario we get, which in turn removes the most important housing stock (first-time buyer friendly range).Council takes step to repeal process for blanket rezoning, next step is public hearing
Calgary city council took the next step toward scrapping blanket rezoning Monday.
Tale of 2 cities. If this holds up, I'm curious to see the differences between us and Calgary in the next 5-10 years.
Not to be a doomsayer.
archited
Senior Member
Edmonton is 'growing' some significant home-town developers and more types of financing options among a plethora of alternative housing options (partially due to zoning changes). I see a future where there is less reliance on out-of town builders and financiers and where 'alien' projects become better refined from an architectural standpoint.
Kosy123
Senior Member
I'm hoping we've done enough work supply wise that the effects can be mitigated substantially. Edmonton is probably the case study for zoning reform and how that can handle a population influx (and now speculative capital too). Big contrast to something like Minneapolis which actually lost population, despite having its zoning successes.
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
I hope for the same. Unfortunately, our more relaxed tenant protections and smaller market could reduce the continued powerhouse construction to a drop in the bucket.
Over 30 Edmontonian condo corporations were bought out by Toronto-based capital in this year alone. If it were up to me, I'd get Dale Nally to cap the proportion of land titles in a community that out-of-province corporations can hold.
thommyjo
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Not sure why we are allowing stuff like this. Surely it hurts more than it helps…
