The City of Victoria’s proposed missing-middle housing initiative will once again be the subject of a public hearing this week, as the city wrestles with what some call the largest overhaul of the city’s residential zoning process ever undertaken.The goal of missing-middle housing is to increase the number of housing options in hopes that more families will be able to stay in the city, while ensuring new development suits the character of neighbourhoods.
The goal is to increase the number of options by amending bylaws, land-use procedures and official community plans to make it as easy to replace a single-family home with a houseplex as it is to rebuild a single-family home on the same lot. They say the status quo, which encourages replacing one single-family home with another, or replacing an aging apartment building with a newer, more expensive equivalent, does little to address the need for more housing units of varying types in the city.
There are concerns the proposal will provide developers with a blank cheque to produce large buildings out of character with neighbourhoods — some city councillors and residents have noted there are too many loopholes developers have been able to exploit in the past.
There’s that B.S. nowhere near to scale illustration again.
Isn't the Missing Middle for Affordable Housing what projectile vomiting is to healthy eating?
TINY HOMES. $75,000 BRAND NEW. The most planet-friendly option available, yet still ILLEGAL in most regions.
Public is so naive.
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