Marko, better still you should move to Toronto where you can enjoy the density already there. Dont have to wait for it to be built. Being a real estate agent makes you really objective.
Regardless of Markos employment in the industry he is correct. That area can and should be denisfied as it is close to downtown where people work and is relatively easily serviced.
If not there then where? Do we tear down more single family homes? Do we build along the waterfront (Dallas Road etc.) Do we build in Beacon Hill Park? Where do we find wide swaths of land to house people?
The point is - we live on an Island. There is water on 3 sides of us and the Malahat to the North. All this combines to limit our ability to provide enough land for single family home development. The only answer is condominiums. You must go up. Air is free (compared to land). It is only a question of where and when something will be built not if. Our housing crises is a crises of supply and demand. Nothing else.
To house the influx of people who want to live in the Victoria area it is time to wake up. - Our sleepy "backwater" is highly desirable and to live here with any semblance of economic balance we must look to the future and densify.
Anyone who disputes this is living with blinders on.