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Actually, we do restrict construction particularly in the "view corridor" that is downtown. It's not that we don't build buildings, it's that they are all under

Actually, we do restrict construction particularly in the "view corridor" that is downtown. It's not that we don't build buildings, it's that they are all under 40 stories, whereas a typical city of our size would have buildings of the same type pushing 100 stories easy. For a sense of scale, here is Vancouver's tallest building compared to the world leaders: http://i.imgur.com/YcCozCE.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/YcCozCE.png?1

Tiktaalik 11y ago
Right of course but my point is that view cones and other restrictions on the form of housing are not a dominant factor when you compare how much housing supply they would bring versus the level of housing being created elsewhere. Vancouver is upzoning the entire corridor along Cambie street and is planning on building significant residential parcels at Oakridge (~2000 units) and Pearson Dogwoods (~3000 units). If you go out further to Burnaby, New Westminster and Coquitlam they're building tons. Burnaby just announced their long term plan for a redevelopment of Lougheed Mall that will create 11,000 units. Basically adding further height downtown isn't really necessary and the gains are minor in comparison with the gains achieved by rezoning low density single family houses and low density commercial to higher density forms.