03-17-2025, 11:02 AM
(03-15-2025, 04:14 AM)tomh009 Wrote: Vive so it'll be rental, not $900K condos.
I actually think the cemetery will be a nice view, lots of green and tree cover.
Tend to agree that overlooking a cemetery isn't the worst. The units on the north and west faces of the building will fare no worse than the apartments along Moore and Union, and I don't think anyone's had problems there. The rent vs. own becomes moot, though, if the rents are "upscale luxury living," with affordability based on 80 percent of market. If only households with incomes above $90,000 a year can afford units that just barely accommodate two people, not much differentiates that development from others in the neighbourhood. Yet again, I wonder if any thought has been given at the regional planning level to the need for service workers (food, retail, cleaning, delivery/transport, shelf-stockers, etc.,) to maintain that upscale luxury standard. I have family members who have worked involuntary part-time overnights for years with a major grocery store, and between them earn about one full-time minimum-wage income. If wages don't even allow for a monthly GRT pass, how can the people who really keep things going live here?