• oʍʇǝuoǝnu
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    1 year ago

    Remove zoning restrictions and someone will build. Give them the incentive by making what you want to build easy and most will jump on it instead of going through a 5 year long rezoning process to build a 30 story tower.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed, Toronto zoning is not really the most thoughtful. Anything one parcel east or west of Yonge Street for example is zoned in most cases as 2 or three story single family home (as long as it’s not intersecting another main avenue that is.

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        1 year ago

        That’s pretty much all of Canada, even our biggest cities are too scared to zone properly in fear that they’ll have to actual govern and educate their electorate, easier to just assume the next guy will.

        I’ve been a public servant for three years and all I’ve taken away from my short time is that the public can’t be trusted to do anything to benefit society.