Parking in Waterloo Region

[tomh009]

Are they really, actually, going to permit, as of right, a parking-free, 99-unit apartment tower above a 10,000m2 retail/office?

If so, that's amazing.  It allows downtown to be built back up to its old pre-war form.  Projects no longer need to be massive lot-consolidations, just to be able to build the density to support the parking requirements.

Yes -- but FSR rules might still dictate the lot consolidations, unless the developer can take advantage of a lor of FSR bonusing.  I suspect that this would be more likely to benefit mid-rise developments that don't hit the FSR limits anyway.


This is indeed good, but I don't expect that completely parking-free residential buildings will become commonplace even so, at least not in the next decade or two.  But if it allows the average parking amount to start creeping down to 1.0, to 0.8, to 0.5, to ... it'll all be good.