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Originally Posted by red-paladin
29th Ave and Nanaimo on the other hand have been mentioned numerous times on this forum and elsewhere as an example of the failure of Vancouver to densify around skytrain stations.
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It's not easy to densify when you're talking about hundreds of individually-owned lots. Short of expropriation, there isn't any feasible way to do it in the short term. And no council would survive that kind of expropriation.
Joyce was successfully densified because it was adjacent to a large tract of industrial warehouses. 29th Ave is adjacent to a park, but Vancouver would be loath to relinquish park space, and rightly so IMHO.
FWIW the 29th and Nanaimo stations are both the anchors for trolley routes with frequent serivce and numerous feeder bus lines from south. Although the density directly adjacent to the stations is low, they do attract a lot of riders through those feeder lines.
The 2300 Kingsway development will also add a few hundred housing units within walking distance of the Nanaimo station.