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The core South of bloor is dense but outside of that with exception to a few spots along Yonge and the 401 Toronto is almost entirely single family housing.
by sanswork 3y ago
The core South of bloor is dense but outside of that with exception to a few spots along Yonge and the 401 Toronto is almost entirely single family housing.
- jiayo 3y agoExactly. There's lots of intense density (50+ storey residential buildings) in a small geographic area, but for the other 75% of the land area of Toronto, it has been illegal to build even a 4-plex; zoning allows single family housing only. If you look at neighborhoods in Montreal where there are blocks upon blocks of 4-6 storey low-rise, that type of construction simply doesn't exist in Toronto. Some good search terms for this topic are "the yellowbelt"[1] and "the missing middle"[2]. [1]: http://www.mapto.ca/maps/2017/3/4/the-yellow-belt http://www.mapto.ca/maps/2017/3/4/the-yellow-belt [2]: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-missing-middle/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-missing-middle/