Great idea! I don’t think anybody has a problem with the fact that a building houses more than one family… The troubles begin when a castle tower pops up next to their pool!
How would you manage car traffic in a neighborhood that is slowly converted to houses 3 or 4 times as many families with as many cars?
I don’t think anybody has a problem with the fact that a building houses more than one family…
I don’t have a problem with that, but I do have a problem with being forced to obey the petty, tyrannical whims of whoever manages the building. HOAs have a bad reputation for a reason.
Haha yeah this! I lived in a HOA and we had to fight over petty details! I moved out as soon as I could! We should have broken down the HOA instead.
The leader of the council had a very small backyard and almost convinced everyone to ban patios and sheds because he didn’t have enough room for either… 😑
I don’t think anybody has a problem with the fact that a building houses more than one family…
It is because of parking. Every additional unit will require parking spaces, those units will have guests who must likely will park on the street and that’s what gets the neighbourhood pitchforks out. They will scream how there will simultaneously be too much congestion and no parking spaces but also that people will speed down the street and make the neighbourhood unsafe. Parking and building height (neighbourhood character) are the two bullets nimbys use to kill a lot of housing projects.
BC will be introducing legislation in the fall that permits up to 4 units per parcel on all parcels. I’m interested to see how its handled by zoning and what things will look like in a few years. Hopefully this gets cities to start investing in transit as the higher densities might be able to support it.
With density, which enables adequate public transit, we need much less parking. Get rid of the parking requirement, and a lot of that problem goes away. I’d love to be able to buy a place without a useless-ass patch of concrete attached to it that’ll cost me an extra 20k for no damn reason.
Great idea! I don’t think anybody has a problem with the fact that a building houses more than one family… The troubles begin when a castle tower pops up next to their pool!
How would you manage car traffic in a neighborhood that is slowly converted to houses 3 or 4 times as many families with as many cars?
I don’t have a problem with that, but I do have a problem with being forced to obey the petty, tyrannical whims of whoever manages the building. HOAs have a bad reputation for a reason.
Haha yeah this! I lived in a HOA and we had to fight over petty details! I moved out as soon as I could! We should have broken down the HOA instead.
The leader of the council had a very small backyard and almost convinced everyone to ban patios and sheds because he didn’t have enough room for either… 😑
It is because of parking. Every additional unit will require parking spaces, those units will have guests who must likely will park on the street and that’s what gets the neighbourhood pitchforks out. They will scream how there will simultaneously be too much congestion and no parking spaces but also that people will speed down the street and make the neighbourhood unsafe. Parking and building height (neighbourhood character) are the two bullets nimbys use to kill a lot of housing projects.
BC will be introducing legislation in the fall that permits up to 4 units per parcel on all parcels. I’m interested to see how its handled by zoning and what things will look like in a few years. Hopefully this gets cities to start investing in transit as the higher densities might be able to support it.
With density, which enables adequate public transit, we need much less parking. Get rid of the parking requirement, and a lot of that problem goes away. I’d love to be able to buy a place without a useless-ass patch of concrete attached to it that’ll cost me an extra 20k for no damn reason.