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General Suburban Updates and Rumours
(04-18-2018, 08:54 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: The article states it pretty clearly. The previous owners never put anything forward, so while heritage planners suggested they wouldn't allow it, nothing went on the record.

The important detail that heritage no-change advocates are conveniently ignoring is spelled out clearly, too: the "heritage views" from the road that they are trying to preserve are views from a road built in the 80s. Ergo while you can argue that the house is heritage, the views are 100% not heritage at all, an open and shut case.

The owners also bring up the important thought that doesn't often get mentioned: heritage advocates ask for a lot, but they aren't the ones paying the bills. I wonder how differently we would approach heritage if we assigned its extra costs to the general tax base, not just in terms of upkeep, but if we take heritage neighbourhoods which we might rightly think should be at least capable of supporting 4-6 storey small-rise residential, but are kept at 2 storey single detached, what is the foregone tax revenue, and increased costs?

We here love to talk about how the costs to the city of a suburban home are far more than suburban taxation pays for, and that the costs of a residence in 1Vic to the city are far less than the taxes they pay, but we never really talk about the effects of heritage and single-detached zoning, and how they can very much be a big factor (even a bigger factor than suburbia?) in our costs. Nobody realistically expects that we could be making a dense area in Doon, but we could be making far denser but still incredibly livable areas all throughout our cores, but in the name of "heritage" and "stable neighbourhoods" and single family homes, we don't.

That is a fair point, although it would be interesting to see the numbers in this particular case - the revenues from the sale of four new lots would be substantial, and probably well above what the current owners have put into the property (I speculate).  Not that that decides the matter one way or the other - the current owners just made a (potentially) good business decision, istm.
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General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by Spokes - 08-25-2014, 04:57 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 11-02-2015, 02:59 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 07-20-2016, 04:46 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 02-06-2017, 01:33 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 03-10-2017, 01:35 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 03-29-2017, 01:02 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 07-07-2017, 12:24 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 09-25-2017, 12:38 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 01-29-2018, 02:05 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 03-26-2018, 12:47 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by panamaniac - 04-18-2018, 10:26 AM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 04-23-2018, 12:29 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by kps - 11-04-2018, 03:13 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by Ace - 07-26-2019, 10:01 AM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 08-25-2020, 01:19 AM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by kps - 04-21-2021, 05:08 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 04-20-2021, 02:02 AM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 04-20-2021, 11:05 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 04-21-2021, 11:32 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 04-28-2021, 03:11 AM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 04-28-2021, 02:57 AM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 07-13-2021, 08:06 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 09-25-2021, 11:33 PM
RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours - by nms - 04-23-2023, 09:14 PM
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