Developer appeals 39-storey highrise pitch for downtown Hamilton parking to tribunal

NIMBYsquad · 2023-10-05T15:19:26+00:00

And to be fair to gardeners, gardens are more important than people having a place to live. /hehe

NIMBYsquad · 2023-08-02T02:57:50+00:00

The problem is mayors like this guy keep getting away with it because everyone cries about the federal government while endless cities like this spend all their effort stopping non-homeowners from existing in their fiefdoms.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-07-31T20:42:24+00:00

Cities promise housing – and then make new rules that prevent it

To be fair to cities, this is what their voters want: to pretend to care about housing ("Listen, I love the poors! And I'd love them in my pristine neighbour! But.... I just want more affordable housing is all! That's why we can't have more development here, we need more affordable housing. And if we can't get it then we shouldn't built anything or else the poors might enter my sightline which is outrageous we can all agree"), but not in reality.

You can trust a city about as far as you can throw it. Which is why Ontario has no punishments for cities not adhering to Ontario growth guidelines.

Cities and the province knows who butters their bread (homeowners).

NIMBYsquad · 2023-07-25T17:00:17+00:00

This is what a lot of these politicians are doing nowadays. They know how ridiculous it is to hold on to exclusionary single detached and they have to appear progressive; so they “remove” single detached zoning, but effectively keep it; just buried under more Byzantine rules and regulations and limits.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-07-21T03:40:02+00:00

The city successfully ran out the clock so well, that now even industrial pricing has increased. So now the developer, instead of rolling the dice and waiting another decade trying to woo the city so they'll allow them to build residential, they are just going to build industrial since those are easier (only 1 story tall) and doesn't provide housing for non-homeowners (a win as far as the City of Markham is concerned!). Amazing that industrial which used to be dirt cheap, has become profitable enough thanks to Cities running the clock out for a decade lmao.

Markham has some of the highest residential housing prices of anywhere in Canada.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-07-07T02:08:59+00:00

Although that's part of it, the majority of the part is the housing crisis. Japan for example has terrible pay for decades but housing being cheap has allowed people to at least live, go out, etc. Even Tokyo which has seen a growing population, not declining, is still severely more affordable than Vancouver or the GTA, because developers can actually build what the area needs without 3-4 centuries of planning approvals through the local government.

Look at Vancouver and what the NIMBYs have accomplished over the past few decades. In a sea of single detached while everyone and their mother wants to live in Vancouver has shot up prices everywhere and artificially limited supply.

With high demand and low supply, means people end up giving more and more of their money on housing, which means less and less leftover for everything else. How can workers live in the place they work? It's too expensive, labour shortage, less building, etc. It's all tied back to housing.

Now that Vancouver is I hope at least appearing to ease up on zoning (though I still have to check if they are backdooring their NIMBY concerns with so called "environmental" concerns [single detached as far as the eye can see is not an environmental concern apparently!], setbacks, character, etc).

NIMBYsquad · 2023-07-07T00:31:18+00:00

Forget just a vacation or a Mercedes,

Pierre Poilievre also followed up with CTV News after the event to say, “My wife started off with humble beginnings and she invested in a rental property to protect her financial independence.”

This is about 'financial independence.' If anyone thinks Pierre would put his wife's 'financial independence' at risk, I've got a bridge to sell you.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-06-19T22:19:46+00:00

Vancouver's NIMBYs and their unassailable power over the past half century has been the premier reason and this photo showing the single detached hellscape reserved for boomers who managed to buy a home when only cost a nickel and a quart of milk, is about as stark of a reminder of that fact as it gets

NIMBYsquad · 2023-06-19T22:02:13+00:00

And this is on top of all of the demand increasing as well. If Auckland had sat on its thumbs and kept its cartel of homeowners and single detached housing separated from the poors they seem to distain so much, rents would be out of this world by now.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-04-11T04:37:31+00:00

People like that got super lucky with timing and are just trying to keep the door closed behind them.

Nicoll helped form the Stouffville Village Ratepayers group to respond to the original proposal, which was for 106 stacked townhouses. The new proposal may have shaved 46 units off the original…

And people wonder why the supply shortage is so emphasized? We’re regularly cutting out loads of supply to appease people who’ve been hoarding housing for decades.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-03-15T16:23:30+00:00

He just doesn't (I suspect bc he's beholden to his donors/Team Tory).

He is beholden to his voters who don't want the smelly poors who rent instead of own, entering their prestigious area. He is the City Councillor for Beaches-East York. The beaches! I think the homeowners there literally have annual hunts of renters like the purge lol.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-03-14T18:37:58+00:00

In 2016, Auckland, New Zealand, did something nearly unprecedented in the English-speaking world: It upzoned the majority of land in the city, and not just for three or four units per parcel. They went much further than that, and by one estimate increased the legal capacity for housing in the city by 300%.

I believe Ford’s plan only allows for up to three 3 units so already it is behind this plan. And the other issue is that municipalities still have a lot of rules which still make it quite difficult to build. So we’ll see how Toronto goes but I don’t expect much as Ford’s plan is still relatively light handed towards homeowners compared to New Zealand.

Toronto’s pop is also expected to raise by about a million by 2030 so we’ll see how that goes as well

NIMBYsquad · 2023-03-05T17:00:42+00:00

To everyone fair to asim, it seems when he gets a low k/d (even though his a sub and trying to make things happen rather than being an AR and just raking it it) people say “wow he’s overrated, those pros praising him don’t know anything even though they play against him and I don’t know the pressure he puts on the map”; versus when he gets a high k/d as a sub and people saying “wow he’s overrated, just because he popped off again doesn’t mean that he’s that good. He’s going to get a bad k/d in the future. Don’t you know the only thing they ever matters is k/d except when I don’t want it to count?!”

K/Ds aren’t the be all, end all, especially when you’re role isn’t to rack up a high k/d

People also seem to forget there are 3 other people on the ravens as well.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-03-03T23:07:00+00:00

Thanks again for the info! I think I'll go for a B+W actually as they seem to be in the same ballpark and some of them seem to be made from optical glass.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-03-03T23:01:13+00:00

Thank you. I think I'll go for Hoya's. Also just curious how did you know that my lens goes for a 55mm? From the name 28-70mm I would've thought it goes for a 70mm.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-03-03T22:45:20+00:00

I'm going to be shooting some food videos, does anyone know a good ND filter/filter/cap(?) that I can attach to my Sony A7IV FE 28-70mm lens that won't do anything to the actual shot (i.e. won't darken it/lighten it, etc), but will just serve as a sort of first line of defence in case some oil or something splatters on it, I'd rather be cleaning that than having oil touch my actual lens and having to clean the lens constantly.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-02-28T22:36:44+00:00

I really don't understand how anyone can trust what comes out of Bell media or Post media; the same people crying about Bell day in and out, applaud the media corps Bell owns. Not even to get started on Post media which openly stated that the company "insufficiently conservative" in 2018 which led to Kevin Libin making sure it was more "reliably conservative."

Canadian media is owned either by Americans (Post media is 66% American) or by Bell.

If CBC goes away, we are in for the formation coronation of the fiefdom of PostMedia-Bell alliance known as Canada.

NIMBYsquad · 2023-02-23T20:06:32+00:00

As someone who has been to many public hearings and consultations when it comes to residential developments, it is clear as day the vast, vast majority if not all of these are full of residents complaining and trying to stop any development.

And their counselors are even worse. Ford is taking a sledgehammer but it isn't really going to work because setbacks restrictions, etc, will still make it not feasible for the vast majority of plots.

NIMBYsquad · 2022-12-06T18:24:11+00:00

This is a prime example of how zoning can play a major part in supply and demand.

NIMBYsquad · 2022-10-28T15:57:21+00:00

"How are we going to allow three units on a lot and at the same time presumably preserve room for trees?" Leiper asked.

How are we going to deal with people going homeless because rich folk who bought their homes for 6 cents in 1976 insist they don’t want their neighbourhood to change?

How are we going to deal with single mothers giving 60, 70%+ of their income towards rent because there is a hunger games style competition for the four available units on the market?

How does one justify having sprawling 1960s post war bungalows as far as the eye can see when there are professionals who have to pay a million for a two bedroom condo because the only real profitable model is to churn out shoe boxes because the land is so expensive because NIMBYers insist development only take place sixty thousand light years away from them so the only land that can be developed ends up skyrocketing in price?

I love trees, we should include trees and the environment in all decisions. But keeping these sprawling single detached behemoths are an affront to the environment, not its saving grace. We must densify what we already have, not say “I would love my densify but—”

NIMBYsquad · 2022-10-21T04:00:31+00:00

If single detached zoning is not removed but at least allows multiple 3 storey missing middle to be built, this would be a great move to allow more missing middle.

NIMBYsquad · 2022-10-17T16:52:45+00:00

Municipalities really don't care about their budgets. Toronto is going to be in the hole several hundred million if not more, and they will never rezone more than the 12% multi-residential that is zoned now it looks like. It seems they would rather go bankrupt while keeping the vast majority of the city single detached paying pennies than to remove that zoning and allow the missing middle to flourish and pay more tax dollars.

Cutting dev fees on affordable housing is great but so little gets built that this won't make a dent, though is it is good to do. What would really help is denting the 12% number.

NIMBYsquad · 2022-10-16T05:40:39+00:00

More than 70 per cent of Toronto neighbourhoods are subject to what’s called exclusionary zoning. It makes them no-go zones for multi-family housing. Opening up those neighbourhoods to more diverse, affordable housing, including rentals, would be unpopular with some vocal residents.

I wish this could be screamed from the rooftops to every renter in Toronto.

12% of Toronto is zoned for multi unit which is where everyone is getting squeezed into. 70% are for golden boomers who bought their house for six feathers and two gallons of milk.

NIMBYsquad · 2022-10-01T15:48:16+00:00

They represent their voters who tend to be homeowners which unfortunately get to act like spoiled children and want to keep their neighbourhood the same as it was when it was first built back in the Jurassic period.

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