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Originally Posted by acottawa
The only places where change gets actively resisted is on some of the old streetcar suburbs where the very affluent live and in a few areas in central Ottawa where the NCC has various regulations.
Sites like the one in Kitchener do not get a lot of resistance to change, there are just no developers stepping up.
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I'd say the outer Greenbelt suburbs are the worse. They flip out about literally anything. Think of the Kennedy Lane recently, or that one modest three story building proposed on a huge lot in Kanata years back.
The streetcar suburbs are taking on a lot. Towers near transit, mid-rises on traditional main streets, 3 storey condos replacing rick SFHs. They do step up once in a while when a developer proposes something far taller than what is currently zoned, but it's not that bad in general when you really think about it; no pitchforks on Scott (other than the one proposal on Roosevelt for some reason), little opposition in Centretown, virtually no opposition near Dow's Lake Station (beyond the campaign against... checks notes... a hospital?)
So yeah, we see opposition on some projects, but it's not all projects. In the outer Greenbelt suburbs, it seems like ALL projects within existing low density areas.