A verdict on the City of Victoria’s missing middle housing initiative has been put off until this afternoon.
At the Thursday night public hearing, the missing-middle-housing debaate picked up where it left off in early August — with a city divided. The program would require amending bylaws, land-use procedures and official community plans to permit infill, houseplexes and corner townhouses in some neighbourhoods — basically, where zoning currently only allows for single-family homes it would allow houseplexes as well as townhouse projects on assembled land.
Others against the program argued it would hand developers, who no longer would require rezoning approval to demolish and rebuild on single-family lots, carte blanche to build what they want, forever altering neighbourhoods.