04-25-2023, 07:58 PM
(04-25-2023, 07:39 AM)cherrypark Wrote: What is your take on how to incentivize more of this? As someone who agrees, I feel like this problem is often presented but what to do about it is less obvious, beyond a sense of the barriers (still too much red tape meaning 6 or 20 stories is about the same; as-of-right zoning; NIMBYs complaining no matter what; dollars still sloshing around post low interest rates meaning small units have investor demand).
It's not just about incentivising. A large part of the reason that missing middle hosing is, well, "missing" is because of zoning, which municipalities control.
Kitchener, for examples, has something like 75% of residential land zoned for single-detached, 15% for tall towers, and only 10% for things like triplexes, townhouses, fourplexes, three-storey walk-ups, stacked townhouses, and low-rise apartments.
That 75% needs to be all turned into RES-5 (no limit on units, 3 storey maximum).