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Toronto Ridiculous NIMBYism thread

EagleEye said:
Born and raised here.
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Then you know! (Apologies for the tongue and cheek question)

Vastly underutilized commercial sites, dominated by fields of parking. Towers in the Park-type high-rises, with enormous wasted tracts of land. House farm after house farm, often with no allowance for compatible midrise along the avenues. Even many of the low-rise neighbourhoods (not all) are tremendous wastes of space, designed in an era when land was cheap - an inefficient use of space with winding roads and cul-de-sacs. Even if one wants to build single-family houses with nicely sized yards today, that's not how you would do it if land when land is at a premium. Even many of the arterial roads collectively have hectares and hectares of wasted, soul-destroying and pedestrian-discouraging boulevards.

I also grew up in a balcony bungalow, in a neighbourhood designed much the same way.

ETA: I didn't grow up on a balcony.
 
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Skeezix said:
Then you know! (Apologies for the tongue and cheek question)

Vastly underutilized commercial sites, dominated by fields of parking. Towers in the Park-type high-rises, with enormous wasted tracts of land. House farm after house farm, often with no allowance for compatible midrise along the avenues. Even many of the low-rise neighbourhoods (not all) are tremendous wastes of space, designed in an era when land was cheap - an inefficient use of space with winding roads and cul-de-sacs. Even if one wants to build single-family houses with nicely sized yards today, that's not how you would do it if land when land is at a premium. Even many of the arterial roads collectively have hectares and hectares of wasted, soul-destroying and pedestrian-discouraging boulevards.

I also grew up in a balcony bungalow, in a neighbourhood designed much the same way.

ETA: I didn't grow up on a balcony.
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I'm glad you didn't grow up on a balcony!
 
MTown said:
Most of these ambitious yuppies prefer living not in suburbs. We need to build more in built-up areas to drive costs down. There is more than enough space to house another 1 million people in Toronto alone.
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That's a low estimate. You could easily double Toronto's population without even touching most of the "stable neighbourhoods" like the Annex for example.
 
Towered said:
That's a low estimate. You could easily double Toronto's population without even touching most of the "stable neighbourhoods" like the Annex for example.
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I was trying to not come off as an efficiency radical, but, yeah, you are correct!
 
Towered said:
That's a low estimate. You could easily double Toronto's population without even touching most of the "stable neighbourhoods" like the Annex for example.
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Doesn't mean we shouldn't though. The Annex is a prime spot for residential intensification.

And as far as 'stable neighbourhoods' goes, the Annex is too wealthy for young families to move into. Controversial opinion time, but I don't know how a neighbourhood with no kids can be considered as stable. The Annex is more like a live-in "heritage" museum than a stable neighbourhood.
 
WislaHD said:
Doesn't mean we shouldn't though. The Annex is a prime spot for residential intensification.

And as far as 'stable neighbourhoods' goes, the Annex is too wealthy for young families to move into. Controversial opinion time, but I don't know how a neighbourhood with no kids can be considered as stable. The Annex is more like a live-in "heritage" museum than a stable neighbourhood.
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Exactly, particularly the Annex straddling two subway lines.

I'm a big proponent of hiking the residential tax rate on those houses to something astronomical - as the infrastructure serving this neighbourhood (and others like it) are light years ahead of most Toronto neighbourhoods.
 
Filip said:
Exactly, particularly the Annex straddling two subway lines.

I'm a big proponent of hiking the residential tax rate on those houses to something astronomical - as the infrastructure serving this neighbourhood (and others like it) are light years ahead of most Toronto neighbourhoods.
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Impose a land value tax instead of (or in addition to) property taxes. Goal accomplished.
 
Filip said:
Exactly, particularly the Annex straddling two subway lines.

I'm a big proponent of hiking the residential tax rate on those houses to something astronomical - as the infrastructure serving this neighbourhood (and others like it) are light years ahead of most Toronto neighbourhoods.
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I’m assuming that you wouldn’t be affected by the astronomical tax hike you propose.
 
WislaHD said:
Controversial opinion time, but I don't know how a neighbourhood with no kids can be considered as stable. The Annex is more like a live-in "heritage" museum than a stable neighbourhood.
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As someone who has interacted with this neighbourhood for nearly thirty years, I can attempt a short answer: In large part, Boomer U of T faculty who bought in at the right time, and the right place.
 
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