This needs to be a totally overused phrase because it’s key to so much of Toronto’s creativity and construction blockages.
This needs to be a totally overused phrase because it’s key to so much of Toronto’s creativity and construction blockages.
I constantly say this as well. There is a big difference between something being permissible and it being feasible. I think a lot of work that has been going into zoning reform recently has been to make things permissible but very little has gone into to making it actually feasible. I think the biggest benefit from pre-approved designs is not people actually using them but this being used as an opportunity to test the waters on what how much feasibility all the permissibility we've been getting, or promised to get, actually has gotten us.
@beheshtialex @ZoeCoombes I think there is one extra level to this, we also need to ask what actually makes sense given demand. Here in Vancouver planners did the economic testing for multiplexes (learning from the Victoria experience), but multiplexes leave central hoods still woefully under-zoned.
@beheshtialex @ZoeCoombes The result is maintaining a high level of exclusion, and excess demand getting capitalized into land values with no productive outlet. This is not city-building, making excuses for refusing to tackle the big problems.
Very very very much agree. Im actually very worried that multiplexes are becoming a crutch for politicians to do the minimal possible. This track is going to actually fail to do much and potentially lead to a backlash. I see far too many "mission accomplished" signs flying around these days.