Dan Fumano: As both city and province look to speed up housing, expect debate
Rendering from the City of Vancouver showing what types of building densities could be allowed on single-family residential streets a block from arterial streets.Vancouver’s council will consider proposed changes that, in short, would make it easier to build six-storey mixed-use rental buildings on busy commercial streets and four-to-six-storey rental buildings, depending on the level of affordability, on streets outside those commercial shopping areas .
For many Vancouver neighbourhoods, busy commercial streets are the only place to contemplate anything much bigger than a duplex or triplex. Of course, apartment buildings exist on quiet residential side streets in many other cities in the world, and in some Vancouver neighbourhoods, especially older ones.
Although the proposed changes include maximum building widths, heights and depths for the side streets, to prevent overly large buildings, there is still “a strong attachment to the house form” in many residential neighbourhoods, Garrison said.Article content Edna Cho, a senior housing planner with the City of Vancouver, added: “We also did hear from a lot of people who want to see more change in the neighbourhood, that we go further.”
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