General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

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I'd love to see more contemporary row house developments as well. There's a decent looking project just outside of downtown called Victoria Commons off of St. Leger Street. There's at least 30 blocks of row houses there along with a couple mid rise condos. It's the perfect kind of urban middle housing we desperately need.

Strong agreement in principle, however in the specific case of that St. Leger development I think the row houses were not particularly well executed. Seems that half the battle with this mid-density developments is that either zoning rules or lack of imagination really miss a chance to build an inviting development.

I would absolutely love to see some strong European influence in duplex and row house designs that don't look like a cardboard movie set like these seem to me.

Agreed. If you go to the new areas of Markham, it's nothing but these types of developments (row houses/townhouses/stacked townhouses) and it's an incredibly miserable place. It's good for providing density, but that alone does nothing to make a good city.