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This is going to the next Planning and Strategic Initiatives meeting on the 30th. Staff are recommending approval of the development. The public comments are surprisingly minimal for this development with only 10 members of the public commenting. There were the usual too tall, doesn't fit into the existing downtown comments. There were also comments surrounding 3 bedroom units as well as not enough bike parking. Vanmar has updated the design to include 1 bike space per unit. There has been no 3 bedroom units included but city staff provided an interesting data point in that 27000 of the 3+ bedroom units in the city are occupied by only 1 or 2 people. This means 44% of large units in the city have more bedrooms than people living in them.
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It's not like we can police who rents what. That's unfair. If someone has the money and wants 3 bedrooms despite not having 3 people that's their right.
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Absolutely. Lots of people want a guest bedroom. We have an extra bedroom in our house. Is that an issue?
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Only way that the 27,000 statistic would be relevant would be if only 22,000 of the units were occupied and the rest were empty. The statistic doesn't speak to how many renters are currently in 1 or 2 bedroom units who would like to upgrade to a three-bedroom unit but can't do so due to a lack of capacity.
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How could you even enforce that? Would be a logistical nightmare.
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Fortunately nobody actually proposed it. It's just a strawman hypothetical for people who like to wring their hands.
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The design can still change through the SPA process once this is approved. We won’t know what it will look like until it goes into marketing, and even then it can change slightly when built
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10-28-2023, 06:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-28-2023, 06:38 PM by ac3r.)
The F was specifically chosen to send a strong signal to the NIMBYs. Get F'd!
Joking obviously, but the tower looks fine. I don't know why this forum seems to dislike it. If you could see a physical model of it or additional renders I think you guys would like it more.