People chose single-family streets and paid a premium for it. Now, decades later, politicians are changing the rules of the game.
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City staff and councillors say they want your opinion on the idea of replacing existing single-family homes with four-unit buildings. But do they really?
Staff presented a complex new zoning report Monday that would enable the change, but all it does is bring the zoning bylaws into compliance with the Official Plan, the big-picture document that was passed in 2021 and already relies on extensive intensification of existing neighbourhoods.
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For city planners, a redo of the city’s neighbourhoods is a dream come true and their timing couldn’t be better. Planners and some politicians want to change every older neighbourhood, to recreate it the way they wish it had been done in the first place. In their imagined utopia, we’d walk or cycle to little........