Small- scale multi-unit housing BC
Small scale multi-unit housing refers to housing developments that consist of multiple units, typically 2-4 units, built on a single lot or property. These types of developments are designed to provide more housing options within established single-family neighborhoods, increasing density and affordability.
The new BC legislation requires that 4 housing units must be allowed on each urban serviced parcel larger that 280m2 {3000 ft2} and two units on other lands. It has also set a policy that must be considering in zoning, including regulation of height, setbacks, off road parking, coverage, etc.
And purpose? Provincial bureaucrats created this new regulation to fix the problem with “housing crisis” which was created by them because they simply allowed mass migration. Of course, everything is perfectly orchestrated to achieve higher goal- disconnected people from the land.
The reaction of the public did not take a long.
Dear Mayor and Council
First let me compliment those who spoke up about the – frankly idiotic – I have no other words, Provincial proposal to put 2 or 4 homes on a residential lot.
I have lived at our Ambleside home since 1983. We have a 49-foot frontage lot here, with the usual 35 ft rear set back, 25 ft. foot front yard and 5 ft side yards. As I look at this set up, I can’t imagine even one more in-fill home here!
Maybe I should mention that I have a Masters degree in Community and Regional Planning from UBC, and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard. I have combined these two fields in a way that included the design of a 1200 unit subdivision at Sackville Downs in Nova Scotia, and a variety of other subdivisions, commercial and recreational site designs.
I am in my later 80’s so have been retired for some time. Somewhere in the interim between where we were trying to have livable communities interspersed by farmland and parks, we have come back to a 19th century type of the city described by Coleridge as “cloisters dim”, where you saw “naught lovely but the stars”, if that! Why? Because the buildings were so crowded with no greenery in sight!
We seem to be in some sort of panic to make our cities as congested and unlivable as possible. One of my daughter’s best friends lives in a single-family residential area in Burnaby where the proposal is to build an 80 story high-rise next door. On an aside, I wonder what would happen to the hapless residents should there be a prolonged power outage? I hope the seismic engineering also takes into account the possibility of a major earth quake.
Do we really need to create these potential death traps? How about reducing the number of immigrants from the dizzying annual numbers Mr. Trudeau favours? Sensible immigration policies would certainly reduce the need for these ridiculous densification proposals!
Multi unit housing built in socialist countries.
I am glad our Council voted against the legislation the NDP government proposed. Between the NDP and the Greens we are headed for disaster!
In closing I want to say something about the need for more local decision making. I have a cottage in the North Shuswap. Last year it nearly burned down because of decision-making by bureaucrats far from the scene. A backburn was authorized by the province, but soon it was apparent that wind direction and wind force were about to change. The original thinking was that this would prevent the spread of an existing wildfire. Unfortunately, conditions changed between the plan idea, and its execution. In a community of some 3000 homes over 200 were lost.
If we had local decision making, the backburn would never have been lit!
We have a similar situation here: every community is different, and surely in a democracy the citizens living in each have a right to decide what sort of community they want to live in!
If this falls apart, then it will be the WHO that decides on our health plans, and other UN departments will tell us what sort of community we will live in!
Reminds me of Communism, today called Globalism. My parents left the former, I don’t like the latter!
EL, DB
