[bootlegga]

Thanos Thanos:

bootlegga bootlegga:

If that means knocking down ancient homes and putting up larger, more modern ones that can house more people, I'm all for it.

I'm not, mostly because it ignores a lot of long-established facts about the bad effects high-density living can have on people's social behaviour and emotional/mental health. If I had to make a choice I'd sooner move up to a craphole like Ft. McMurray permanently than live in the downtown core or inner city of Calgary. I don't want to ever go to the far suburbs either but I'd still like to see the middle-aged areas of 1960's to early 1990's vintage be left alone by the brainiacs in the planning department and not filled up with condos and townhouses. I've been through that sort of thing already and it just about killed me with all the insane crap I had to endure from others while living in an apartment. I need the middle-ring of suburbs just for some space to myself and some breathing room. I'd leave the city behind altogether and take my property tax dollars out to the countryside instead of ever going condo again.

I never said you (or cities) should go condo. I simply said it makes sense to increase density in the core. When I say core, I'm talking about an area far more than just downtown - I'm including the established neighbourhoods bordering it too.

In fact, I think cities should avoid building condos outside of areas close to LRT/transit, especially if developers are only going to build 1 and 2 bedroom condos, because those small condos are fine for single people/couples, but are totally inadequate for most families.

If you take a senior (or single person) out of a house and put a family of four there, you have just doubled the density of that house and that makes it easier for cities to provide services - especially because in most core areas, it's already been built and all the city has to worry about is maintainance. If you knock down that corner house and put in a duplex/triplex/quadplex, you just increased density by several hundred percent. Do that a thousand times over the entire core and you've increased the tax base and alleviated strains the city would have if all those people moved to the suburbs.

Families want houses they can live in - but many people who move into these older homes (like two of my sisters here in Edmonchuck) find the limited space (usually only a couple of bedrooms, one bathroom and tiny kitchens & living rooms) not conducive to a modern/21st century lifestyle.

The choice for most families is make do with an inadequate house in the core or move to the suburbs (like I did). When I went house shopping, I looked at both options - but it was hard to justify buying a 50-60 year old sub 1000 sq ft house in Southgate (roughly similar to the area near MacLeod Trail in Calgary) for $50,000 more than a 1800 sq. ft. house in Castledowns with 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and a decent sized kitchen, living room and finished basement.

[BartSimpson]

Brings to mind a guy in El Dorado Hills, California who was told that he could not paint his house yellow, but instead had to paint it an approved color. He asked for and received a palette of approved colors and then proceeded to apply ALL of the colors to his house in a more or less random pattern that included polka dots and random shapes.

Wasn't long after that the community granted a variance to allow him to paint the place yellow.

My point being is that if the law allows this house then people should STFU before this homeowner retaliates by doing all sorts of things that are perfectly legal.

[Curtman]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

$1:

arted for this 'hood though, going by the Calgary example. The older houses will be bought up at an increasingly rapid pace, demolished down to the foundation, and replaced by more and more in-fills until the old neighbourhood is essentially gone.

Not in this neighbourhood.

You should take a drive down Wellington Cres next time you're in town. There's lots of new houses under construction.

[2Cdo]

Curtman Curtman:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

$1:

arted for this 'hood though, going by the Calgary example. The older houses will be bought up at an increasingly rapid pace, demolished down to the foundation, and replaced by more and more in-fills until the old neighbourhood is essentially gone.

Not in this neighbourhood.

You should take a drive down Wellington Cres next time you're in town. There's lots of new houses under construction.

Haven't been in the 'Peg since 2002 and probably won't recognize it when I drive through in a couple of weeks.

[Curtman]

I was checking out the stadium at U of M this morning. Its looking pretty neat. I left my phone in the van though, so no pictures. The human rights museum is looking pretty nice too. And IKEA is almost done.

[Xort]

Small narrow halls, low ceilings, one bathroom, a small badly laid out kitchen, a basement that is either:
A: Unfinished but has been a work in progress for the last 50 years
B: Finished in 1970s 'style'

Yes lets keep small older homes, you can't have a new house show up everyone else on the block with what they could have if they could ever find some money for a rebuild.

Also that isn't much of a monster house.

[peck420]

Why did they cheap out on the windows and doors?



If your going to build prominent, at least do it right!

[Jhoni]

I think you like the strange things........
Well a normal person will never prefer to live in such a dangerous house. But i think i am not normal because i like this allot and i think its a good architecture model.

[Thanos]

If you think that house is a monster you should take a good look at what's hiding in my pants.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Thanos Thanos:

If you think that house is a monster you should take a good look at what's hiding in my pants.

Did you run out of Depends again?

[Thanos]

That's definitely a different take on "pantload".

[ShepherdsDog]

jeeeeezuss go change your pants and wash up fer christ's sake