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For the majority of Vancouver's land, it's not density that's driving the run-up in land value.
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Bryn Davidson @Lanefab
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Bryn Davidson @Lanefab
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Co-owner and lead designer @oori_arch & @Lanefab. Passivhaus/NetZero B.Eng/M.Arch More often at BlueSky these days: https://t.co/IsydJDBCMA
Vancouver, BC Katılım Aralık 2009
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@BrentToderian Both of these buildings have been illegal to build in most of Vancouver since the mid 70s.
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Bryn Davidson @Lanefab retweetledi
Turns out “Missing Middle” housing hasn’t been missing.
We knew where it was the whole time.
We made it illegal.
Never forget, housing choice is a leadership challenge.
#UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle
Via our initiative, the Urban Truth Collective. Check out our content here: urbantruthcollective.com
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@pmcondon2 @rrrobbberttt Yeah they are well trodden case studies.
In North America we deconstructed our urbanism and didn’t have single stair building types in the toolkit - so the downzoning of the 70s made a kind of sense at the time - but the question is whether we can move past that mindset.
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Anyone else find this strange, coming from a guy who headed Vancouver’s Planning Department for 6 years?
Brent Toderian@BrentToderian
Turns out “Missing Middle” housing hasn’t been missing. We knew where it was the whole time. We made it illegal. Never forget, housing choice is a leadership challenge. #UrbanTruth #MissingMiddle Via our initiative, the Urban Truth Collective. Check out our content here: urbantruthcollective.com
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@pmcondon2 @rrrobbberttt I just spent a week in a city with 20x vancouver’s population but very little traffic and no affordability problem, and no apartment ban.
Imagine the prices in Tokyo if they had, instead, enforced single family zoning for 80% of the land for the last 50 yrs.
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@pmcondon2 @rrrobbberttt A lot of the angst around the Broadway plan is (rightly) about the demo’ing of existing affordable apartment buildings, but the impact of the BP pales in comparison to the impact of 5 decades of apartment bans.
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@pmcondon2 @rrrobbberttt @BrentToderian There was popular support among high propensity voters (mostly detached home owners). No disputing that, but it’s a big part of how we arrived here.
We can’t move forward until we acknowledge it.
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@pmcondon2 @rrrobbberttt If not for @BrentToderian we’d have continued the Beasley era “tall n sprawl” approach of blocking any form of infill housing in RS and RT zones (other than highly curated character projects).
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@pmcondon2 @rrrobbberttt Apartment buildings have been illegal on ~80% of the land base for the last 50 years. I’m not sure why this is controversial.
We’ve had very recent and very incremental shifts toward plexes (but it came 20 years after west side homes crossed the $1m mark).
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@pmcondon2 @rrrobbberttt Biggest fish in a very small pond
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@rrrobbberttt Vancouver has integrated more units into so called single family zones than any other center city in North America
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Vancouver and Seattle traded stairs.
We got six storey single stair for missing middle, and now Seattle gets scissor stairs (that are the backbone of all those vancouver point towers).
Saad Asad@realsaadasad
Washington unanimously legalized scissor stairs, a building code reform that frees up to 56% more living space per floor. Less wasted space means cheaper homes on smaller lots. Most US states banned this since the 1970s for no good reason.
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City of Vancouver@CityofVancouver
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@iamkennethchan @DailyHiveVan Stop shipping all the new power to LNG.
Done.
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BC Hydro has launched a $1-billion push to help customers reduce their power use, as a measure to delay or avoid building $2 billion of new infrastructure.
The province is starting to struggle with keeping up with electric demand. #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
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Bryn Davidson @Lanefab retweetledi
By now, you might have heard that Mayor Ken Sim is trying one more time to roll back Vancouver’s green building standards, by bringing back a motion on May 20th which will effectively gut good climate policies in new building development.
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There are many things that can and should be simplified but this does nothing to help those of us who actually work mostly in Vancouver
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@MikeKlassen you want to kill Vancouver’s single stair code update that was just adopted? We’re on the cusp of unlocking a new housing type…
You’re not going to see 25% cost savings, you’ll see a single fam house with no fire sprinklers and 32” doors instead of 34”.
ABC Vancouver@Vote4ABC
Building a house just across the street in Burnaby can cost roughly 25% less than building the same home in Vancouver. At a time when affordability is already crushing families, City Hall shouldn’t be adding more costs and delays. Today, we’re taking action to modernize Vancouver’s building rules and bring them more in line with the Province of BC. • Less red tape • Faster approvals • Lower building costs • More affordable housing Vancouver is the only city in BC with its own standalone building code — creating extra costs, delays, and complexity that ultimately get passed on to you. Our promise is simple: every decision we make should help make life more affordable for Vancouverites. @MikeKlassen #affordability #abcvancouver #vancouver #respectingyourtaxdollars
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@stepheneb @MikeKlassen They’re quite différent. Province went first and threw a bunch of additional “mitigations” that make it expensive, too large and difficult. Vancouver’s includes exterior stair and scissor stair at a workable dimension.
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@Lanefab @MikeKlassen I thought that BC did legalize single stair buildings? Vancouver just had to update their code, which they did last year. Is that incorrect?
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@jhwfung @MikeKlassen @VanFireRescue We can throw it back to the province for a year or two but we’ll overturn a lot of ongoing work with the Villages planning process and the momentum will be stalled.
This is something to run on and do if re-elected. Not something to shove through at the 11th hour.
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@jhwfung @MikeKlassen @VanFireRescue They did, and they supported it because the vancouver version was (in their view) better than the province’s.
This the role that Vancouver’s code plays in supporting innovation on density, climate and accessibility.
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Hello from our #singlestair flat in Ueno.
1 unit per floor with a small restaurant at street level.
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