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Originally Posted by casper
Alternatively the city gives up some of their zoning premium if a developer building strata ground floor industrial with high rise condos or offices tower on top. That would not work for heavy industry but what we are actually talking about is warehousing or light industry.
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This definitely seems like something that could help a lot. I think it points to a flaw in the way we've built commercial space in the city for the past few decades- everything has to be an expensive glassy sidewalk-fronting CRU, and any business that doesn't need or want that format gets pushed into our dwindling industrial land. You go to almost any industrial area and it's full of karate studios, niche retail, arts spaces, just tons of low-impact uses that could totally coexist with residential. Find a way to provide spaces for them in mixed-use projects and you immediately free up a bunch of industrial land for more intensive industrial uses. Other than that one building on Hastings near Ray-Cam I can't really think of anywhere it's been tried though.