[fever]

There's nothing wrong with transit on the west side.

The entire area of the city southwest of Oak and 16th, except for pockets in Kerrisdale, Marpole, and a short strip in Dunbar, is basically high end suburbia. It's nice, low-density, auto-dependent, and full of nimby's. It's good the way it is. It fills a need for executive housing close to the city centre.

Increasing density uniformly in this area, which is what a blanket increase in the number of secondary suites will do, will make for more traffic, less parking, and other typical, inane nimby complaints, without really strengthening any of the nearby strips. And politically, I'm concerned it'll bring out unnecessary opposition to worthwhile changes under the eco-density banner, like increasing densities along arterials and in parts of east van.