While either of our two lovely private golf courses would make admirable building sites, what actually might work best is rezoning the Uplands.
A commentary by someone who lives on a block in Oak Bay where four construction projects are under way.While I’ve been here my neighbours have subdivided, razed, gutted, renovated, raised, rebuilt, enlarged, paved; they have also blasted, jackhammered, logged, bulldozed, landscaped, recontoured, dug deep.
Tom Davidoff of UBC’s Sauder School of Business, who designed the method for assigning designated municipalities their quota of multiple dwellings, confirmed that: “We’re not going to see affordability. That’s not what’s on the menu here.
Oak Bay has experienced many years of the destruction of small houses to be replaced by large, and the hiving off of gardens to create new sites for large houses inhabited by one or two people. While either of our two lovely private golf courses would make admirable sites, what actually might work best is rezoning the Uplands.
Recent work on sewers, drains and water mains will ensure capacity and densification will supply more taxpayers to help with costs.
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