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#21 Mike K.

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Posted 28 October 2007 - 01:33 PM

So, if I understand this correctly, a community association so vehemently opposed to spot zoning and so passionately supportive of affordability has just championed a spot rezoning and absolved itself of representing an area with affordable real-estate?

Ok, I get it. This is nothing but a belated April Fool's joke the TC forget to run back in the Spring. Move on :>> :>> :>>

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#22 Barra

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Posted 05 November 2007 - 05:44 PM

A spot-zone is a custom zone. It is a site-specific zone. And when they are crafted at the time of proposal, the uses, densities and dimensional regulations (heights, setbacks) are shrink-wrapped around the proposal,



Urbalist - thank you for a good description of spot zoning - it DOES ensure that exactly what developer proposed and council agreed to, is exactly what will be built. If the developer sells to someone else before he/she starts construction, the new owner will have to build exactly what the zone describes.

Interesting to see you all dumping all over community associations - ONCE AGAIN - without really knowing what they stand for. Tim VanAlstine has often provided exactly the same explanation and defence of spot zoning that Urbalist has provided. You don't seem to realize that community associations actually provide quite a nuanced examination of land use proposals - and the nuance is usually lost in the blatant CA bashing and assumptions that we are all blindly against development. We are NOT. Community Association land use committee members have spent many years immersing themselves in urban planning, urban design and land use issues. Many of them - Tim VanAlstine, Diane Carr, Irwin Henderson, Doug Rhodes, Marc Pakenham and myself, have served terms on the city's Advisory Planning Commission. The Vic West Community Association won an award for the work that they did working with the developer of Dockside Green in coming up with a sustainable and appropriate development.

With regard to the first posting to this thread, with regard to a Muslim assembly hall in a commercial zone, you might be interested to know that in Victoria, churches are allowed in all zones. You don't ever need to ask for a rezoning for such a use. And what is wrong with a religious meeting hall in a commercial zone, anyway??
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