Ever see a neat project in another city and wonder: could we do it here? Should we? We have too, and as part of an ongoing series we’ll be taking ideas from around the world and running them through the lens of Toronto.
Secondary suites had been allowed across the city for years, but had what senior planner Nick Welch described as “anemic” uptake. It was an incentive meant to get more housing units built. “It’s things like this that we’re looking at, and that we should be looking at,” Bailão said. “It’s how we nudge people into creating the housing that we need most in the city.”
But both she and Karen Chapple, director of the University of Toronto’s school of cities, hope to see more creative ideas to incentivize development. “It seems like there needs to be more carrots,” Chapple said, while stressing that public education was also part of the equation.
mud huts ... prevent global warming Liberal MPs ... they get castles
Seattle is a dumpster fire of a city, ever since the leftists took over. Of course the Star would want the same for Toronto.
Yeah, let's be Seattle.