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It’s a sensible move. Vancouver BC is studying moving to allowing fourplexes on most detached residential lots too, and I hope that city takes steps toward impl
by Tiktaalik 7y ago
It’s a sensible move. Vancouver BC is studying moving to allowing fourplexes on most detached residential lots too, and I hope that city takes steps toward implementing that.
A great outcome from this is that now that cities are finally implementing these policies, we can study their impacts.
At this point in YIMBY urbanist circles policies like this have taken on somewhat of a mythical panacea quality, so it’d be good to finally be able to ground the affordable housing discussion with hard data.
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoI really don't understand why we can't also allow bodega-type stores at least on the ends of residential streets. Nobody is going to drive ten miles to go to your local bodega. It's not going to increase traffic. You're not going to need more parking. You can even make it illegal to sell cigarettes and alcohol entirely there.
- bluGill 7y agoMaking cigarettes and alcohol illegal makes them illegal. There is a reason you find tiny stores that sell just alcohol and cigarettes all over in poor neighborhoods: they are the only thing high enough margin to work out. If such stores can sell the high margin products they then have enough money to stock lower margin things as well. Besides, with the problems of drinking and driving, you should want alcohol stores nearby to drinkers can get their fix without having to drive to the store.