Housing shortfall, costs and affordability

[danbrotherston]

Toronto is allowing duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes anywhere that is currently zoned single-family. Hopefully more cities follow suit.

Super awesome! How can we push the Kitchener council to at least debate this?

Vote in a new council.

Like...honestly...many on council are strong NIMBYs and there seems to be little motivation to change this. I think the compromise they reached was laneway houses, which I understand are allowed now. But we've gone through zoning exercises and besides being highly esoteric and technical, my understanding was that they actually limited height even further (height was limited to the AVERAGE of surrounding buildings, which forces heights to trend down), and nobody was even willing to confront that.