02-02-2017, 12:06 PM
(02-02-2017, 11:41 AM)TMKM94 Wrote: How does Toronto and other Metropolitan city councils get NIMBYS to stay satisfied yet still have tall buildings?
By recognizing some neighbourhoods as having de facto high zoning (if not the on-paper zoning to match)
By accepting large cash payments for civic improvements in the neighbourhood.
By overruling the NIMBYs.
In Toronto, the Entertainment District had relatively few residents when they started building towers, and now there is a de facto acceptance of 40/50 storey towers, so zoning is approved without much issue.
Toronto has "Section 37" funds, which allow for developers to pay the city for civic improvements, in return for density bonusing. The city gets money to make improvements, and the developer gets to build bigger.
And ultimately, Council has to approve these projects, using the above as rationale.