(04-25-2022, 09:42 AM)jshamont Wrote: June will mark three years since ION LRT opened! Have any recent reports to council(s) included an assessment of the new housing impact of LRT, or can anyone help me arrive at some numbers, like:
-How many new homes have been completed within 500-800m of an LRT stop since construction of the line started?
-How many new homes are currently under construction within 500-800m of an LRT stop since construction of the line started?
-How many new homes are proposed within 500-800m of an LRT stop since construction of the line started?
this old article indicated that there were 50 total projects as of the week LRT began operating, but not number of units, and surely that number has increased dramatically since then.
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...ities.html
I don't have an exact number for you, but there have definitely been thousands of new housing units built near the LRT stations (even more if you go slightly beyond 800 meters). And there are thousands upon thousands more planned. The Kraus Development (not the official name) has 2500 proposed near Northfield Station, The Metz (old Schniders site) has 2800 proposed near Mill Station, Virerra Village is proposing 1300, SmartCentres will likely have at least 3500-4000 or more near Pinebush Station - not to mention all the single towers that have gone up, awaiting construction or proposed.
I would be interested in knowing exactly how many have gone up. Maybe you can find a council report or send the planning department an email, though if not I think you'd have to go through these forums and other resources, make a list of every project that has been completed, awaiting construction or is in its proposal stages and then do some digging to get exact numbers.