Maybe it's because Vancouver keeps getting bigger, and Victoria keeps falling below the threshold of what it means to look like Vancouver?
Managing density / urban development
#881
Posted 15 October 2022 - 06:02 PM
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#883
Posted 15 October 2022 - 06:35 PM
Vancouver was hardly ever mentioned in Victoria's anti-development narratives for most of the 20th century. Even as late as the 1970s people were still making fretful comparisons to places like Manhattan or San Francisco. Victorians didn't really settle on Vancouver as their definitive example of un-Victoria until the mid-1980s.
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#884
Posted 15 October 2022 - 06:39 PM
Vancouver in the 1960s looked pretty close to what Victoria is looking like right now.
So now we have a benchmark. It's whatever Vancouver looked like in 1970, that Victoria will sort of look like in 2030.
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#886
Posted 15 October 2022 - 07:07 PM
That looks about right.
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#887
Posted 15 October 2022 - 07:32 PM
I look forward to seeing the full scale, local replica of the North Shore mountains built in 7 years.
#888
Posted 15 October 2022 - 08:15 PM
#889
Posted 15 October 2022 - 08:59 PM
Build more supportive housing everywhere.
#891
Posted 18 October 2022 - 02:28 AM
These positions from long-time North Saanich councillor Murray Weisenberger, who finished third to mayor-elect Peter Jones, and returning councillor Celia Stock were just among the many reactions making the rounds after Saturday’s municipal election.
Weisenberger said North Saanich will go back to being what he called “Sleepyville” in predicting that the new council under Jones will not pursue an ambitious agenda.
“Nobody will pay any attention as long as the rest of the region remains asleep to what North Saanich is about, which is privilege,” he said. “And as far as I can tell, Mr. Jones doesn’t really plan to do anything, so that is going to save a whole lot of energy.”
Jones also appears to be grappling for the best way forward around the OCP review, said Weisenberger.
https://www.vicnews....ent-councillor/
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 October 2022 - 02:29 AM.
#892
Posted 18 October 2022 - 04:17 AM
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#894
Posted 17 March 2023 - 05:58 PM
Did anyone see this article about behemoth condos blocking sunlight? In order to swallow this editorial you would have to be willing to pretend the past ~65 years of residential redevelopment in James Bay, Fairfield, Rockland, Fernwood, Vic West, and Esquimalt never happened. In Victoria there are literally hundreds and hundreds of examples of this supposedly highly unusual circumstance.
Why do so many Victorians remain either clueless or insincere (or both) about the city's actual built form? All you have to do is go for a walk and you can see it for yourself. Heck, if you live on Dingley Dell, all you have to do is look out the window.
(Note: I'm not saying anyone is obliged to be a fan of the proposed development. And -- as per the formula these days -- the "housing crisis" angle seems contrived and political. But it should be glaringly obvious to any honest person that lowrise apartment buildings are not anything unusual in this particular neighbourhood, or in any of Victoria's central neighbourhoods. In Canada only Montreal is more heavily weighted to lowrise apartment living than Victoria.
It’s a fair argument to make about a neighbourhood that is filled with restored old homes that will suddenly include a modern condo building. Some of these homes are 100 years old and might look weird next to a modern building. Does that make it not worth building? I’m not so sure, but it’s an interesting point.
Then there’s the claim that a five-storey building with 40 units can be called “behemoth.” I just moved here from Metro Vancouver and that claim would definitely get laughed at, but this is all relative. To folks in Greater Victoria, five storeys is a really dense building because it’s an area dominated by single-family houses.
“The Esquimalt and Vic West communities on Selkirk, Arm, Northcott, Burleith, Dingley Dell have been defeated by the split vote passed by half the municipal council,”
Here's the manipulative/political bit:
I don’t want to dismiss the impact of having a new building built in your neighbourhood. But it’s hard to balance the crying need for housing with people upset by some shadows.
#895
Posted 17 March 2023 - 06:10 PM
"We moved to Dingley Dell to get away from lowrise apartment buildings. Unfortunately, we were 50 years too late. But still, the intention was there."
(Again, I'm not saying they have to like whatever is being proposed. I'm not even sure which exact site we're talking about. But if I was in their shoes, methinks it be would much more logical and honest to say the neighbourhood already has more than enough apartment buildings, rather than pretending it doesn't have any and then claiming the proposed development would represent some kind of radical departure.)
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#897
Posted 17 March 2023 - 06:23 PM
I guess this is the controversial project: The Sterling at 815/825 Selkirk Ave.
#898
Posted 17 March 2023 - 06:24 PM
Eeeek!
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#899
Posted 17 March 2023 - 06:34 PM
For once I don't find myself shedding any tears for the displaced houses. There are still some fine old houses in that neighbourhood so I was expecting the worst.
The "shading" concern would only seem to be relevant for the east-facing units in the Mayfair Manor apartments. Should we mention those units would also be losing their eastern views, since they've been overlooking a couple of exceptionally low houses for their entire existence? The problem is, even if you restricted the new building to only three stories (same as Mayfair Manor) you would still lose the view.
#900
Posted 19 May 2023 - 10:28 AM
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