Infill Development Discussion

[YYCguy]

Inglewood infill project, the one with barn.

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The barn doesn’t seem to be integrated into the rest of the development very well. I thought the barn was going to serve a purpose (I had read somewhere that it was going to serve as the parking facility for the residential units)?

 

[konradiical]

Isnt the barn like a Car repair Shop?

 

[Alex_YYC]

20th Ave infill.

 

[dirtymood]

New infills just wrapped up on the opposite end of the block from Aero Park in South Calgary. Looks like 16 units and, 10 parking spots, and some bike racks behind the garages.

 

[badc0ffee]

DP2024-03449 - 839 McPherson Rd NE, 22 units in two buildings, right next to Bridgeland-Memorial station:

 

[ByeByeBaby]

I saw this article about an infill policy in San Diego and was shocked by it.
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Yes, a lot of it is paint by numbers for any article on this topic; a city councilor who tearfully describes the horror of... multi-family housing. A description of infill as either luxury for elite gentrifiers or unlivable shoeboxes or both (it's never neither).

But then the article talks to someone who lives in the infill, and who thinks it's pretty nice and it works well for her. Not someone advocating, just a beneficiary of the development.

And the main thing that shocked me was the realization that these are the voices that we never hear from in the media.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

these are the voices that we never hear from in the media.

If there wasn't a demand for infills, there would be no infills. It is a huge miss that for everyone of these proposals it is made out to be the big bad developer versus homesteader just trying to make a better life for their family. In reality, these are homes or people, some shoeboxes but some places for families too (see the maps of toddlers in the inner-city SW).

Could a developer put out a call to their existing residents and ask them to speak about living in one of their properties? Why not, the people that would live in these developments aren't ghosts and goblins, they're people.

 

[trtcttc]

If there wasn't a demand for infills, there would be no infills. It is a huge miss that for everyone of these proposals it is made out to be the big bad developer versus homesteader just trying to make a better life for their family. In reality, these are homes or people, some shoeboxes but some places for families too (see the maps of toddlers in the inner-city SW).

Could a developer put out a call to their existing residents and ask them to speak about living in one of their properties? Why not, the people that would live in these developments aren't ghosts and goblins, they're people.

I don't think it's just townhouses, it's just an age thing. Most of these meetings are during the day, which basically limit it to retirees. Someone living in the townhouse is at work so they don't have time to go down to city hall or to the media to complain

 

[Surrealplaces]

16 unit affordable housing development on 20th ave NW

12 unit development also on 20th ave nw

 

[Albertasaurus]

It'll be interesting to see what 20th Ave looks like in a few years. I can't think of any other street in the inner city areas that is seeing as much new development.

 

[Surrealplaces]

4th st NW is pretty close to 20th ave in terms of development. It’s too bad there isn’t some 5/1 development on the intersection of the two streets.