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General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours
I wonder how much of his business is with meal delivery services like Uber Eats or Skip the Dishes? That could explain a desire for easy car access.
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https://www.therecord.com/news/council/c...aa3cd.html

Quote:Cambridge city council unanimously voted in favour of Coun. Adam Cooper’s motion Tuesday to direct staff to prepare a report for the year-round conversion of Main Street, between Water and Ainslie streets, to a pedestrian-only area.

The report will be brought forward with the 2025 budget process.
“All of you have seen the overwhelming success we’ve had the last few years of the summer street closure. It’s only grown every year,” Cooper said.

“We’re at a stage right now, we’ve got incredible revitalization of downtown, and this has had a significant part in that.”

Here’s going the staff report isn’t watered down and useless - otherwise a big win.
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https://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news/waterloo-region/new-bylaw-prevents-demolitions-in-cambridge-without-rebuild-plan-in-place/article_a6466ede-caf5-5445-b5fa-bc73b9d5096e.html

Quote:The City of Cambridge has reinstated a demolition control bylaw, officially designating the municipality as a demolition control area.

Approved unanimously by the council, the bylaw aims to prevent residential demolitions without clear redevelopment plans.

“This bylaw bridges the gap between removing residential options from our community and redeveloping the site,” said senior planner Nicole Goodbrand during her presentation to council.

She explained the bylaw requires developers to obtain a permit before demolishing residential properties, with penalties for unauthorized demolitions or delays in redevelopment.


If we just add a few more regulatory burdens to land owners, they’ll start building all that much-needed infill housing any second now!
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Is anyone even building in Cambridge? Aside from a suburban subdivision and tiny townhouse project here and there, not a whole lot seems to happen in that city.
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(11-27-2024, 06:09 PM)ac3r Wrote: Is anyone even building in Cambridge? Aside from a suburban subdivision and tiny townhouse project here and there, not a whole lot seems to happen in that city.

Just handfuls of small projects on the list, growth is for other people (and the OLT)
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The Indwell project on King St in Preston has some more news - I can't find the original post here because the search function just doesn't seem to work for me:

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...7373b.html

https://archive.ph/ReWDR

Quote:The original goal was to have tenants move in late 2026, and Willcock said that timetable is still on track.

“We provide on-site health supports and services, which really is the key to helping people who have experienced homelessness and experienced homelessness for quite a while to stay housed. Experiencing homelessness brings with it lots of trauma that needs to be unpacked and experiences that need to be unpacked and behaviours that need to change, just because you do what you need to do to survive on the street.”

He added the rent for the units are truly affordable, costing about $570 to $580 a month.

One of the asks to the committee of adjustment is requesting a variance to allow only eight residential parking spaces and two commercial spaces instead of the city-required 45 residential spaces and two commercial spaces.

It's a fucking embarrassment that they have to go beg to Council to get the 47 (forty seven!!) required parking spaces down to 10. What a disgrace. This is the real meat and bones of the housing crisis. The thousands of cuts given to potential new housing in the name of arbitrary zoning codes.
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From the council led by Jan "fine and imprison the homeless" Liggett, no surprise over here.
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(01-12-2025, 03:55 PM)cherrypark Wrote: From the council led by Jan "fine and imprison the homeless" Liggett, no surprise over here.

If it helps, her actual plan is "hope the homeless die/disappear in the woods" before they need to be expensively incarcerated. But I suspect it doesn't help...
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