From Jacob Dawang's Jan. 5th post:
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The neighbourhood with the single largest proportion of infill had *drumroll*... 13 multi-family developments.
Tell me more about the "flood of infill".
I mean, I do think there’s a flood. But in a good way.
I live in one of these top communities, and they’re all small and close together. Within my regular walking routes to shop, friends, and services, we would have dozens of multiplexes under construction currently, and last year, and even the year before. (Ndura was early to the 4plex game around here). So perception is fair to say a lot is happening. Basically every street in my neighborhood has at least one lot under construction. To simply get in/out of our neighborhood we’ll pass 20+ lots infilled in the last 2 years alone.
So there IS a lot happening. And I think it’s great. Not sure why the yimby crowd wants to downplay that there’s a lot happening. Of course 20% of homes aren’t being rebuilt in a single year, that’d be obscene. But a few dozen within a few blocks of you certainly feels like a lot, even if that math equates to 2-4% of dwellings.
Also to note, many of these are over 12 months to build, so you need a 2-3 year dataset to better represent perceptions of overlapping construction. Plus add in skinnies, duplexes, etc and there’s lot of activity!
As an example, these pics. This might only be 2% of properties in that neighborhood, but you can understand how anyone walking down this street would go “wow, a lot of infill”.
22 homes minimum where there used to be 8. Likely 35+ if there are some basement suites. Again, I think it’s awesome AND I totally understand people perceiving this as a lot of change and quite fast. In less than a 10 year window we’ll see a lot of streets with 50%+ infills. That’s a lot.
). There is also the fact that it backs onto Clarke Stadium -- noise issues but I know how to mitigate that too.
