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Originally Posted by Stryker
Anytime we talk about St john's and development there seems to be some imaginary war between people arguing for historical preservation and modern North American style construction.
So I ask why aren't we pushing our building codes to be something closer to this.
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Do you mean zoning regulations, rather than building codes? Zoning is incredibly important in determining what gets built. You would be surprised how much you cannot build unless it's the same thing as what is existing. You wouldn't be allowed to build a downtown type building, nicely scaled and pedestrian oriented up to the sidewalk, on Kenmount Road, for example. It would be required to have a large parking lot on a large piece of land and set back a certain distance, just like what's there now. The zoning needs to be changed in order to permit anything radically different, at least that's usually the case.