Townhouses, small apartment's, ADU's, etc really ought to be built by right in all former single family suburbs. Fundamentally, the main problem is retrofitting car-centric suburban design to a more active and public transport friendly one.
Yep! The people aren't the problem, it's all the cars. I'd like to make a video on this. Areas like Marda Loop in Calgary have a huge car issue right now. I think Calgary has some decent bones to work with, but we really gotta get moving!
Honestly, what scares me even more are the empty parking lots in Calgary downtown and around CTrain stations. They're among the most expensive land in the city, yet Calgary continues to destroy limited farmland for even more unsustainable single-family homes and refusing to build walkable communities around train stations. There's a housing and climate crisis concurrently and Calgary is consistently one of Canada's most expensive cities, yet the city council there thinks parking lots are more important than people. It's 2023, Not Just Bikes surpassed a million subscribers, so many people including myself have learned of sustainable urbanism in the Netherlands, so why is single-family homes still even a thing?
100%! I’m working on a few videos about this exact issue. I mean, there are already mock-ups for what Anderson Station could look like. We also have places like Currie, where EVENTUALLY there will be dense housing, but they’re starting with the massive luxury homes before moving to the smaller, affordable, and en masse stuff. I’m optimistic, but it’s a long road ahead.
Single family homes exist in the Netherlands too.. It's important that when we're advocating for diversity we're advocating for diversity. The goal is not to take options off the market, but to allow them in a more pluralistic and reasonable share.
You have so much more patience helping people understand than I do. How is misinformation so easily spread? And people used to think having better access to information with the internet...that we'd all be smarter and rapidly bring society closer to utopia. Then again, while cycling around (coming home from a Roughnecks game and from getting groceries), I have had a few people the past year yell out their cars to me to "get a f'n car". Critical thinking is not their strongest suit. If everyone did what he said, he'd then complain how hard it is to find parking, how bad traffic is, how much worse conditions the roads are in, why the city seems so dull and unexciting, etc.
😂 I’m tryin’ to have patience! I think a lot of the misinformation comes from confirmation bias. If you’re scared about your changing city, and you hear “upzoning” you might jump to the most uncomfortable scenario (eg: huge towers, people addicted to substances, etc.), as opposed to new restaurants, walkable streets, and a more community feel. As far as people telling you to get a car… yeah… That’s exhausting. I’ll talk more about it in next week’s video, but I’ve got a lot of people acting like I have some terminal illness because I’m car free 🤣
@@humanecitieswhy do you consistently ignore the number one driver of housing costs in mass migration? No one wants 'wholesome chungus urbanism' if it means having to share a dogbox with a bunch of Indian delivery drivers
one thing I didn't hear you mention was that this reduces the paperwork that developers have to do to switch from a single family home to a multi family home. The developer doesn't have to apply for a zoning change and that can save thousands of dollars and reduce the time to build a new building by many months. They will still need to submit a building plan to be approved. It is just one less regulation that will no longer need to be processed.
The 11 meter height restriction seems limiting to me. I've seen 3 story rowhouses with a garage on the first floor, living room, kitchen and dinning room on the second, bedrooms on the third, and a rooftop patio. I don't think you could build that within 11 m height restriction. These examples seem to all be 2 story.
Great point! I really don't think the RCG zoning goes far enough, but I do think it will cut some red tape in allowing people to add some additional housing to their properties.
Townhouses, small apartment's, ADU's, etc really ought to be built by right in all former single family suburbs. Fundamentally, the main problem is retrofitting car-centric suburban design to a more active and public transport friendly one.
Yep! The people aren't the problem, it's all the cars. I'd like to make a video on this. Areas like Marda Loop in Calgary have a huge car issue right now. I think Calgary has some decent bones to work with, but we really gotta get moving!
Also I'm glad the usually inept algorithm finally gave me a new urbanist channel to subscribe to. Keep up the good work king.
Thank you!
Honestly, what scares me even more are the empty parking lots in Calgary downtown and around CTrain stations. They're among the most expensive land in the city, yet Calgary continues to destroy limited farmland for even more unsustainable single-family homes and refusing to build walkable communities around train stations. There's a housing and climate crisis concurrently and Calgary is consistently one of Canada's most expensive cities, yet the city council there thinks parking lots are more important than people.
It's 2023, Not Just Bikes surpassed a million subscribers, so many people including myself have learned of sustainable urbanism in the Netherlands, so why is single-family homes still even a thing?
100%! I’m working on a few videos about this exact issue. I mean, there are already mock-ups for what Anderson Station could look like. We also have places like Currie, where EVENTUALLY there will be dense housing, but they’re starting with the massive luxury homes before moving to the smaller, affordable, and en masse stuff.
I’m optimistic, but it’s a long road ahead.
Single family homes exist in the Netherlands too..
It's important that when we're advocating for diversity we're advocating for diversity. The goal is not to take options off the market, but to allow them in a more pluralistic and reasonable share.
You have so much more patience helping people understand than I do. How is misinformation so easily spread? And people used to think having better access to information with the internet...that we'd all be smarter and rapidly bring society closer to utopia.
Then again, while cycling around (coming home from a Roughnecks game and from getting groceries), I have had a few people the past year yell out their cars to me to "get a f'n car". Critical thinking is not their strongest suit. If everyone did what he said, he'd then complain how hard it is to find parking, how bad traffic is, how much worse conditions the roads are in, why the city seems so dull and unexciting, etc.
😂 I’m tryin’ to have patience! I think a lot of the misinformation comes from confirmation bias. If you’re scared about your changing city, and you hear “upzoning” you might jump to the most uncomfortable scenario (eg: huge towers, people addicted to substances, etc.), as opposed to new restaurants, walkable streets, and a more community feel.
As far as people telling you to get a car… yeah… That’s exhausting. I’ll talk more about it in next week’s video, but I’ve got a lot of people acting like I have some terminal illness because I’m car free 🤣
@@humanecitieswhy do you consistently ignore the number one driver of housing costs in mass migration?
No one wants 'wholesome chungus urbanism' if it means having to share a dogbox with a bunch of Indian delivery drivers
one thing I didn't hear you mention was that this reduces the paperwork that developers have to do to switch from a single family home to a multi family home. The developer doesn't have to apply for a zoning change and that can save thousands of dollars and reduce the time to build a new building by many months. They will still need to submit a building plan to be approved. It is just one less regulation that will no longer need to be processed.
The 11 meter height restriction seems limiting to me. I've seen 3 story rowhouses with a garage on the first floor, living room, kitchen and dinning room on the second, bedrooms on the third, and a rooftop patio. I don't think you could build that within 11 m height restriction. These examples seem to all be 2 story.
Great point! I really don't think the RCG zoning goes far enough, but I do think it will cut some red tape in allowing people to add some additional housing to their properties.
3:22 You can tell this footage isn't from Alberta because everyone helpfully has a license plate on the front of their car.
And a noticeable lack of oversized trucks 🤣
Can houses that was built in the 50’s and 60’s be RCG to be ripped down and build townhouses and duplexes
Great explanation 👌
Thank you!
Good stuff!