juicebox

joined 2 years ago
 

Instead of worrying about overloaded systems, we should be celebrating the opportunity to make better use of the infrastructure our city has already built and paid for. That's not just good urban planning—it's good fiscal sense.

This dispels a lot of the misconceptions people have about infill development in the city. The complaints about sewage is something I hear a lot for the reason why we can't develop infill. I also wasn't aware of the population decline in the mature areas!

 

Blatchford and the Exhibition Lands redevelopment are important pieces of Edmonton's housing puzzle, but they're just pieces. Solving our housing crisis requires embracing density as a city-wide solution, not a problem to be contained in specific areas.

This makes sense. I hear a lot of pushback against other neighbourhoods taking on density and just putting everything in Blatchford, and Blatchford is a good reference for denser development, but the city as a whole needs to take on denser housing if the supply is to keep up with demand. This also goes for adding a few new towers downtown.

 

Many of the complaints are about parking and traffic, but if a majority of the infill is being built close to transit isn't that what we want? That would reduce the need for a vehicle and parking in the long run, and maybe some families could go down to only owning a single car at the very least? I still think we need more and better transit, but this is moving in the right direction.

 

This has been an issue for a long time and one of the reasons I think there is a stigma against families living in apartments. I've been going to zoning meetings recently and one of the main things I hear is "we need single family housing because we want families to live in the neighbourhood!". Why can't families also live in apartments or condos? Hopefully changes like this can be implemented and create these options!

[–] juicebox@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I'm glad that most of these got approved, we need more of density in the city. I kind of wish there were more walk-up and small businesses inside neighbourhoods though, but that's a different issue.

Also, the fact that they rejected one of the proposals shows that they don't just rubber stamp everything lol

[–] juicebox@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He’s all LASIK, no vision.

[–] juicebox@lemmy.ca 22 points 5 months ago

Another rescue operation that he can’t take credit for, so he gets mad and starts throwing accusations around.