General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours

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The Indwell project on King St in Preston has some more news - I can't find the original post here because the search function just doesn't seem to work for me:

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...7373b.html

https://archive.ph/ReWDR

The original goal was to have tenants move in late 2026, and Willcock said that timetable is still on track.

“We provide on-site health supports and services, which really is the key to helping people who have experienced homelessness and experienced homelessness for quite a while to stay housed. Experiencing homelessness brings with it lots of trauma that needs to be unpacked and experiences that need to be unpacked and behaviours that need to change, just because you do what you need to do to survive on the street.”

He added the rent for the units are truly affordable, costing about $570 to $580 a month.

One of the asks to the committee of adjustment is requesting a variance to allow only eight residential parking spaces and two commercial spaces instead of the city-required 45 residential spaces and two commercial spaces.

It's a fucking embarrassment that they have to go beg to Council to get the 47 (forty seven!!) required parking spaces down to 10. What a disgrace. This is the real meat and bones of the housing crisis. The thousands of cuts given to potential new housing in the name of arbitrary zoning codes.