ryan_mcgreal
Mar 5, 2009, 5:49 PM
The city's planning committee has rejected a motion by Councillor Brian McHattie (Ward 1) to increase downtown density targets from 250 persons+jobs per hectare to 400.
Staff don't want to increase the downtown density targets because that might threaten the city's greenfield expansion plans. As city planner Bill Janssen explains:
The one concern that we have with increasing, or having a target in the plan that we don't know we can achieve, it may impact what other development can be undertaken, particularly in greenfield developments. [emphasis added]
Isn't that the point of intensification - to limit suburban sprawl?
http://raisethehammer.org/blog/1252
Staff don't want to increase the downtown density targets because that might threaten the city's greenfield expansion plans. As city planner Bill Janssen explains:
The one concern that we have with increasing, or having a target in the plan that we don't know we can achieve, it may impact what other development can be undertaken, particularly in greenfield developments. [emphasis added]
Isn't that the point of intensification - to limit suburban sprawl?
http://raisethehammer.org/blog/1252