Vancouver’s long-time push for ‘missing middle’ housing takes the form of a proposal to allow about 4,000 square feet of floor space, and up to four units, on each 33-foot-wide lot
The city of Vancouver is considering a plan to allow multiplex housing, with three-storey buildings and four- or six-strata units on each lot, and larger laneway rental units, in a move that could transform the city’s detached house neighbourhoods.
Mayor Ken Sim has made it clear that he and his majority ABC council want more housing supply as soon as possible, and the province is pushing hard for more density. The plan has been met with opposition from neighbourhood groups, cautious optimism from industry experts and a thumbs-up from those who see detached house zones as a barrier to density.
“To have just streets of those would be very undesirable, I’m sure, as a streetscape, and also to live in.” “I’m fully in support of moving to densification but I think we need to rise up slowly or we are going to get into this inversion of our neighbourhoods that will lead to a whole series of crises that have not been thought out at the infrastructure level,” he says, referring to the increased need for sewer and electrical systems, for example.“They are some of the most expensive ideas out there, because of the ratio of bathrooms and kitchens to the overall area of the proposition.
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