03-17-2021, 11:43 AM
(03-17-2021, 07:58 AM)Watdot Wrote: There are very small pockets. You can figure out where some of the new build pockets will be using the Zoning Map HERE.
Kraus Lands will be the largest area of new build for the North East end Waterloo. There are also some small pockets in Carriage Crossing yet to be developed (or sold to a developer). Everything else is really zoned for "employment lands". The City will need to change this zoning if more residential is to be built, but that is doubtful.
Overall, the future of Waterloo is intensification. Check out the Zoning Changes HERE and you can see it happening more and more for select spots in North Waterloo. 364 Woolwich Street is a good example (although more East).
“Employment lands” is such a nonsense designation. As if a few zoning people have any clue at all where it makes sense for employment activities to locate.
It makes sense to say “this part of the City is for loud and/or dangerous industrial activities”, and “this part of the City is for people who want to live quietly”; but it makes no sense at all to say “this part of the City is for activities that have lots of employees”.
In particular, planners have no business at all saying that stores and offices should not have apartments above them. In the absence of an actual reason to restrict the freedom of property owners and occupiers to use it how they want, society doesn’t have a right to do so. And “some people might not want to live there” isn’t a valid reason to prevent people from living there.