Unique Houses of Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

I am not sure how the city ever allowed this. The developer has sold one more house at the expense of 3 back yards.

And yet, the houses have value and sell for a substantial amount of money. I don’t see the problem. Actually, a lot of zoning rules are like this — if people will buy something, who is to say a developer should not build it for them? This doesn’t work for all zoning rules (canonical example: I don’t think somebody should be able to buy the house next to me, tear it down, and build a slaughterhouse), but many rules are just trying to prevent something that somebody thinks is bad, without worrying about whether anybody would actually be harmed.