According to new research by Ryerson University, all the growth in housing construction the province needs to support both population growth and affordability goals could be met by rezoning areas near transit to support ‘gentle density,’ missing-middle projects
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Last week, the new mayor of the City of Burlington fulfilled a campaign pledge of turning away from tall and slowing down development in the city, freezing for one year all approval work on high-rise developments proposed in the downtown core of the city of 183,000.“Burlington residents have consistently raised concerns about over-intensification and development in our city,” Mayor Marianne Meed Ward told reporters following her election in 2018.
The report said the province needs to build 75,000 units a year for 24 years to keep up with population growth, but in the last 24 years it has averaged just 63,000 units per year. The report identified 200 transit nodes, everything from subway and GO stations to light rail or bus rapid transit lines, and found 1,500 square kilometres of land within 800 metres of those nodes.
“Right now we’re getting a lot more density than we currently need, but all the city has done is pushed density into small pockets. You’re not getting a lot of missing middle,” said Diana Petramala, Senior Researcher with Ryerson’s Centre for Urban Research and co-author of the transit nodes report. Ms. Petramala’s research has shown that missing-middle housing has gone from 40 per cent of the new housing stock that was created pre-1946, to under 15 per cent of new housing since 2006.
Mr. Moore has developed a template for a six-storey townhouse, made of mass-timber, pre-fabricated off-site, assembled on-site in weeks, built on slabs , complete with an elevator and a flexible interior layout that could support owner-occupied uses, rental or retail as needed. Illustration showing how a six-storey 'as-of-right' structure would fit into the blend of housing types.Kyle Knoeck, Toronto City Planning Division manager for the east section of Toronto and East York District where the first R-Hauz townhouses are slated to be built, called Mr. Moore’s project “interesting.”
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