R+T is very suburban?

[danbrotherston]

Why is R+T so suburban. With an LRT, university and the heart of waterloos industry, there should be more mixed use 8+ ish storey  office buildings.

instead theres 3 storey suburban buildings.

This should be fixed with increased density.

Druker's post on Social media brought this up for me

I've heard at least part of this is UW's policies. I'm not sure what specifically, but I know that city planners I have spoken too often implied that the University was not co-operative and wouldn't really be willing to be better.

I also suspect there are zoning issues...

Whatever the source, it is incredibly frustrating, at all levels. The built form is suburban, but the location is very urban, it's an incredible waste.

The building there at the train station...I mean, I'm sure it's good for a suburban office building, but it's constantly touted as an amazing accomplishment, and I'm like, it has an acre of surface parking next to a train station, this is as near to a failure of policy as you can get, it only looks good by the ungodly low standards we have.