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[lanforod]

Yup. the arguments i read there are extremely shallow.

[Victoria Watcher]

MicCHEK: What do you say to the person who owns their home and fears there will be a massive apartment on their block if this goes through?

 

For starters there are height limits in the missing middle housing initiative. It’s a maximum of three storeys on corner lots and two-and-a-half-storeys on interior lots. This question brings up a philosophical question though: Why should past housing forms dictate and guide future housing forms?**1 If the volume metric form of the building is in line with what’s already there, why do we care about how many homes are in it?”**2

 

 

**1 - Past housing form should guide future housing forms because we paid a premium to buy in a neighbourhood zoned for a particular density.  We do not expect that to change rapidly, or by blanket decree.  Neither do the folks in South Oak Bay, Uplands, Broadmead, Dean Park.  Etc. 

 

**2 - Partly we care about how many homes are in it is because of parking and general neighbourhood cohesion.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 June 2022 - 10:28 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

But the key issue is zoning. It is by this power that municipalities protect neighbourhood characteristics of importance to the residents.

There’s a reason why we entrust this task to municipal councillors. Only they are close enough to keep in touch with local sentiment. Only they have an immediate enough relationship with the communities they represent to speak knowledgeably on their behalf.

This is one of the main reasons why we have local governments.

Eby’s frustration with slow moving action on the housing front is understandable. There is indeed NIMBYism at work.

Yet as a minister with province-wide responsibilities, his inevitable distance from the local scene renders him very nearly the last person who should be dictating community zoning.


https://www.timescol...housing-5534126

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 June 2022 - 02:57 AM.

[Nparker]

Stephen Andrew has posted the following on Facebook.

 

https://www.victoria..._vg1d9OQgOnItkY

[Victoria Watcher]

Can you post us up the mailer anyone that gets one?

NParker, search through your junk mail garbage bin in the lobby?

I’m curious to see how detailed it is.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 June 2022 - 11:13 AM.

[Nparker]

I'll check a bit later today and see if we have received the MM mailer.

[Nparker]

Here is the mailer

[Victoria Watcher]

That seems fair. That’s it, single-sided?

[Mike K.]

Anyone notice how massive the windows are on the one-storey single-family-home compared to every other style of housing?

…or is the scale of the SFH just exceptionally magnified compared to the three-storey apartment block?

Cute touch with all the chimneys, too.

[Nparker]

That seems fair. That’s it, single-sided?

The above is the front and back side of the card.

[Victoria Watcher]

Anyone notice how massive the windows are on the one-storey single-family-home compared to every other style of housing?

…or is the scale of the SFH just exceptionally magnified compared to the three-storey apartment block?

Cute touch with all the chimneys, too.

Conspiracy?

[Nparker]

…is the scale of the SFH just exceptionally magnified compared to the three-storey apartment block?...

Everyone knows that SFH's are 2/3 the height of your standard high-rise condo building.

[Mike K.]

It’s crazy, right? The SFD is clearly hyper-sized. The SFD is a crazy mansion, to-scale.

[Victoria Watcher]

It does appear wider than many other types to its right,

[Nparker]

There's little doubt about the subliminal message those housing illustrations are meant to portray. Rather clever on the part of the CoV.

[aastra]

Big deal, so the people who live in the house are extremely tall, hence the much taller doors and windows compared to the other buildings. Last time I checked I'm pretty sure 16-foot ceilings were standard equipment in the luxuriously opulent SFDs that you see everywhere in the CoV's neighbourhoods. Next you'll be complaining because the front stairs are basically the same on all the buildings. (which is obviously because the very tall & very selfish SFD homeowners also happen to have normal-length legs and normal-size feet)

[aastra]

Seriously though, how many residential buildings are there in Victoria that bear any resemblance to the one second from right? Is that supposed to be a hundred-year-old apartment block? Or maybe a commercial-to-residential conversion? Meanwhile, there's no trace of the long lowrise apartment blocks that actually do prevail in Victoria's residential scene, to the tune of hundreds of examples. If this graphic were accurate there would be one 4-story building stretching from the house on the left all the way to the tower on the right.

[aastra]

In other words, in this depiction the actual middle is most definitely missing.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

7200 sq. ft. lot.

 

 

 

 

Location, location, location! This property is in the heart of Fairfield close to all amenities, downtown Victoria, parks, ocean great walkability to Bechin Hill park or downtown. This is a sought after area and 0% vacancy rate. There are 3 studio's suite's, 2x 1 Bedroom suites, a 2 bedroom suite and an owner occupied 3 bedroom suite with in-suite laundry, zoned R3 multifamily dwelling. With room to grow revenue potential this is a great investment property. This is a well maintained building has updated separate electrical panels for each unit, new roof, updated plumbing. This is a great addition to your investment portfolio or occupy the main 3 bedroom suite and rent out the rest!

 

$2,250,000

 

 

1024 Pakington Ave

 

https://www.realtor....-fairfield-west

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 July 2022 - 03:15 PM.

[dasmo]

Conspiracy?

Marketing.