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Halifax developments

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02-17-2020, 02:07 PM

(02-17-2020, 11:35 AM)tomh009 Wrote: All right, I'll bite ... how would you suggest we get more "quality" buildings in the region?

A lot of our zoning is still terrible. Even in areas near downtown around LRT stations they often require significant setbacks, side yards, etc. It's like our planners can't help but write suburban zoning rules, because it's all they know. Sure, they allowed things to be taller around LRT stations, but there's more to being urban than being taller.

In the actual suburbs nothing has changed at all. Zoning remains as 1970s as ever.

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