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> The province is looking to select a consultant to create a selection of standardized designs for small-scale, multi-unit homes, such as townhomes, triplexes a
by gustavus 3y ago
> The province is looking to select a consultant to create a selection of standardized designs for small-scale, multi-unit homes, such as townhomes, triplexes and laneway homes, Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon announced Thursday (Nov. 16).
This seems to be the closest one could get to do nothing while still technically doing something. You do not need to hire an expensive consultant. We have been building duplexes and triplexes and quadplexs for decades.
This is going to be some lightly disguised graft mark my words. They will spend hundreds of thousands on this consultant to produce a plan of whicht they will make 10 and then forget about when the next charlatan or conman comes into town.
You know what they really need is a monorail.
- bardak 3y agoThe biggest legislative changes that preceded this is rezoning practically every single family lot to allow 4-plexes by right so that some charlatan can't come by and stop you from building it. This is just creating affordable preapprove designs to make it easier to take advantage of the rezoning. The government is also forcing rezoning around transit stations and bus exchanges for much higher densities with heights of between 8-20 stories (or higher based on municipal planning) allowed within 800m. While not a monorail there is a 16km elevated train extension going on in the suburbs