I think minimal zoning is much more viable than no zoning. It makes a lot of sense to preserve the hard line between industrial and residential zoning while blu

I think minimal zoning is much more viable than no zoning. It makes a lot of sense to preserve the hard line between industrial and residential zoning while blurring the line between residential and commercial zoning. No one wants factories and power plants springing up in residential areas and having insufficient zoning to prevent that would be a bad idea. But I live in a city where 70% of the city is zoned SFH. It's literally impossible for people to build 4-plexes, 6-plexes or low-rises in these residential neighborhoods. Montreal, allows for this while Toronto doesn't and it's a large part of the reason that housing in Montreal costs roughly half of housing in Toronto. Housing in Toronto costs over 10.5 years of average income in Toronto, which makes it only slightly more affordable than San Francisco where housing is around 11.5 years of average income. A large part of this is the city government does everything in their power to not build new housing while 300,000 new immigrants to come the city a year. Housing affordability is unbelievably poor and a sizeable percentage of residents pay for rent with money they need for food. Food bank usage is large and growing and the city is getting dramatically harder to live in for many of its residents. Surely there has to be something better.