General Suburban Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

As an aside, I stumbled across what is possibly the apotheosis of suburban housing along Keewatin near there. I've only biked by in the past and somehow tuned out the horror: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4634516,-...384!8i8192

That’s really hideous. In addition to the general bad looks of it, though, consider the waste of space: the space between the houses is pretty much entirely wasted. The same houses could be put on significantly less land and with a significant reduction in heating expense by just sliding them all together, in essence making townhouses. Then at the end of the block there would be either a nice park or more houses. Collect all the useless bits of space together and either let everybody use the space, or build more and share the common expenses between more people.

But only poors live in townhomes. [/sardonic]