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When the infill project across the street has fewer than 1.5 parking spaces per unit.
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Neil Lovitt
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Neil Lovitt
@neil_lovitt
Community Planner who knows how to use a BAII Plus. Informed personal opinions. VP Planning & Economic Intelligence at Turner Drake & Partners.
Halifax, Nova Scotia Katılım Eylül 2011
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@MoreHomesHRM There is a logic to it in the context of planning in the real-world, but simultaneously shows how deeply beholden our housing regulations are to pearl clutching by a loud minority.
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@MoreHomesHRM History on the origins of that 968sqft standard is that it was the max permitted area for a shed (90m²). A strategy to minimize nimby opposition and get the precedent of broadly enabled backyard suites established by tying it to what was already permitted.
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This is why spacing restrictions need to be loosened in tandem with zoning reform. There's no reason why someone shouldn't be allowed to build this on their property.
And keep in mind, this isn't exclusive to secondary suites. This applies to *any* housing option one may build.
Global Halifax@globalhalifax
‘They need to wake up’: Couple frustrated by secondary suite bylaws in Halifax Read more: trib.al/LBssabt
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@DenySully Would be interesting to see how that compares to intraprovincial migration for last couple years in your half-moon areas!
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@DenySully If you look at components of growth for the Halifax CD, intraprovincial migration has recently turned net negative in a break from longstanding trends. NSians moving to HRM used to account for a significant proportion of growth in the before times, but the tide is reversing.
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New Blog! Is Halifax losing it's dominant share of provincial population growth?
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My favorite public hearing comment: "Why was I not told about this public hearing?"
Ryan Puzycki@RyanPuzycki
Overheard at Austin City Hall: "You didn't give me any information [about this issue I'm complaining about in specific detail] and you're not taking public input [at this public hearing]!"
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I mean Halifax is just yes, this is one city.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray
Is Calgary the only major city in North America where the jurisdiction boundaries actually cover all of what a normal person might think of as the city?
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@MikePMoffatt Like, either that is true and the city has been utterly negligent in sitting on an absurdly obvious policy move for years... or the HAF details are maybe 10% realistic analysis and 90% magical thinking. Political antics necessary for making progress in the real world I guess.
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@MikePMoffatt My city's application claimed nearly 30% of the HAF accelerated supply (or 6% increase in overall production) would arise from simply charging 75% of the building permit fees on occupancy rather than 100% on application. A move that would take half a year and cost nothing.
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@kyleifax Even more stark if you categorize by DA density in descending order rather than distance from the peninsula.
Shining my bat-signal for you or @rapaport1010 make the 2021 update of this:
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In the quest to find the limit of just how far beyond parody humanity can go, Vancouver housing debates are like the Large Hadron Collider.
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@MatthewHalliday We need a professional code of ethics for window manufacturers and contractors. Gotta cut these maniac owners off at the source!
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@MikePMoffatt We used to be a real country.
We used to get primary rental market data in October AND April. We used to get secondary rental market data...
Like a real country. A proper country.
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@MikePMoffatt The 2017 National Housing Strategy recognized that lack of data around housing was an issue and has a bevvy of programs attacking that. Yet we also have this example, and many others over a long period of time, of important CMHC data programs being reduced. The mind boggles.
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2BR units continue to dominate, and rents are catching up to 3BR. Interesting to see the price gap that's developed between 1BR and Studios. Very few of the latter getting built. People just really don't like murphy beds.
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Barely more than 500 units available in a sea of nearly 60,000. New supply dragging up the overall rent figures (CMHC says units built since 2020 rent for $2,250 on average, compared to $1,923 for those since 2000). Barely any difference in rents these days for the older stock.
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Ouch, big rent increases in 2023 for HRM! Increase of almost 11.8% year-over-year, the highest on record (since 1990) and beating last year's record (8.8%) by a huge margin.
Unsurprising given vacancy has remained very low at 1.0% overall, unchanged from last year.
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CMHC Rental Market Survey is out today. Sort of, the data is still not live on the portal, but some bits are strewn over various excel sheets. 😡 Anyway, residential mobility in the primary rental market declined again. We have a mobility crisis.
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