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Originally Posted by niwell
Indeed. Which makes it even more egregious that a large proportion of what's being built are filing cabinet towers targeted towards investors.
I do roll my eyes when aerial images of Toronto are posted and people freak out about all the lowrises, as if those neighbourhoods would be redeveloped into human-scaled missing middle overnight if all restrictions were removed.
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Currently all the areas of Toronto where higher densities are allowed are seeing sizable development. The same would happen to any more land, currently zoned for single family housing, that became available for higher densities.
Even is this restrictive zoning environment, developers still propose higher densities projects in areas that the city has tried to stop higher densities.
In any case the legislative momentum at both the province and city level are moving to being less restrictive on zoning as every year, more rules to allow more housing in the GTA are created.
If we ever ban exclusive SFH in the yellow belt the city would change dramatically in 15 years.