General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

However, on the flip side, reducing the zoning constraints would increase the number of development opportunities, and somebody would need to build those projects, too, more likely an existing developer than someone who has never developed a property before. So, there would be growth opportunities there, too.

My suspicion is that if random homeowners were suddenly able to do more with their properties (specifically, all the things they could do until zoning was imposed around a century ago), existing large developers of the sort we’re mostly discussing would not be equipped to benefit. It’s sort of like a hypothetical situation where the government was studying relaxing the regulations around brewing to make it easier to open a small brewery — Molson isn’t going to be in favour of such a proposal.

Yeah...this is my thought as well...