General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[ijmorlan]

All the belly aching for this:

"She’s raising legitimate objections that this project will have insufficient parking and create traffic problems in the surrounding area while failing to provide enough affordable units and, indeed, any three-bedroom units that would suit many families."

I've heard home-owning boomers make the same "no three bedroom units" argument. What they fail to realize is that a 3 bedroom unit in a building like this would easily cost 1M+. Any family desiring space with a million dollar budget would have no problem buying a detached house or townhouse in the region. These $800K concrete boxes are the new starter home, as sick as that sounds. It's a tough concept to grasp for the geriatrics who bought their first home 30+ years ago.

So it doesn’t provide enough affordable units, and the solution to this is to require the provision of larger (and therefore more expensive) units, and to require each unit to include parking (and therefore be more expensive).

Makes sense!

If we’re going to go that way, I say every new single-family home fails to provide enough units. It uses a piece of land that could take a 6-apartment building and puts just one dwelling unit on it.