Alex_YYC
Senior Member
You are right, I was thinking of the wrong location.
It's not glamorous...but projects like this bring much needed population density to the inner city.
In the Herald today, one I haven't seen mentioned here yet
https://section23.com/projects/homes/seniors-residences-edward/
https://calgaryherald.com/life/home...te-the-multi-generational-community-at-cspace
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This one seems to be moving very slow, I don’t think much has changed since I last saw it middle of June.
I love this proposal. Six townhouse units, all purpose-built rental. I want to see this absolutely everywhere.
https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...12509486751/20171205_Sunnyside+Panels_WEB.pdf
Agreed. I think the City needs to think seriously about getting rid of RC2 zoning in most inner-city hoods and replacing it with this modified MCG (d111) zoning like this. RCG zoning respects existing home setbacks too much, this form is much more urban and much better. Neighbourhoods like Banff Trail and Capitol Hill should be basically exclusively this form. RC2 and RCG have unnecessary suburban setbacks, if Calgary wants genuine urbanity in established neighbourhoods it is time to reduce setbacks and allow Wall-to-Wall rowhomes with almost no setback from the sidewalk. This is why i think MCG (d111) zoning with reduced front and side setbacks should be the de-facto inner-city zoning for anything that is RC2 today. Calgary is in a really good position to start allowing ground-oriented multi-family forms, and to kick Vancouver and Toronto's ass at actually building for the 'missing middle' in the inner-city at reasonable price points.Calgary needs thousands of those.
More of these would be great, especially for attracting families to the inner city. There are families in the inner city neighborhoods, but generally in detached homes, or townhouses. Detatched homes are too expensive for most, but townhomes work, we just need more of them. One of the issues is developers would rather build something bigger than a townhome, kind of the 'go big or go home' mentality. I don't blame them, but if zoning was to increase on the back streets of neighbourhoods like Renfrew, Capitol Hill, Tuxedo, etc.. developers would go more for the townhouse.I love this proposal. Six townhouse units, all purpose-built rental. I want to see this absolutely everywhere.
https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...12509486751/20171205_Sunnyside+Panels_WEB.pdf
I love this proposal. Six townhouse units, all purpose-built rental. I want to see this absolutely everywhere.
https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...12509486751/20171205_Sunnyside+Panels_WEB.pdf