09-18-2021, 06:17 PM
Purely conjecture, but I would say its more that Kitchener leaped ahead than Waterloo fell that far behind. Kitchener just seems to have been more aggressive about approving and enabling development (while also having a lot of lands ready for it, to be fair). At the same time I wouldn't discount the abysmal Northdale/University area developments as probably being extra fodder for Waterloo neighbourhoods getting out in force against the supposition that all development = that kind of development (right or wrong).