12-22-2017, 04:19 PM
(12-22-2017, 01:51 PM)mpd618 Wrote:(12-22-2017, 12:04 PM)dubya Wrote: The City of Waterloo needs to get a move on its Urban Design Manual! There is no place for homes dominated by big white garage frontage in old historic neighborhood like this. The character of a part of Esson has already been ruined (there is another suburban looking home to the right of these already).
On the flip side - if these are apparently OK, then why can't good apartment buildings be built here?
Exactly. A lot of zoning is supposedly intended to avoid bad outcomes, but misses the mark by a mile, forbidding stuff that is either clearly good (including just about everything built before zoning) or nobody’s business, while allowing all sorts of junk to be built.