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Originally Posted by trofirhen
It would take province-wide legislation to do it -though it would only affect the Lower Mainland - but I think that a certain level of design standard (dare I say "elegance")? is a must.
IMO, it should be just as applicable to suburban town centres as the city of Vancouver itself. Otherwise, it'll just be miles and miles of Jane & Finch, Thorncliffe Park, Mississauga blaaah.
Luckily, a number of suburban centres (like Surrey SFU, parts of Brentwood, maybe Metrotown - yours to judge - have more design than suburban T.O. Just be sure & keep it that way.
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Much as we'd all like to see better and more elegant designs of towers instead of the drab cookie-cutter template that seems to be littering the 'burbs, what you're proposing is essentially like asking them to shoot themselves in the foot.
These projects (especially in the suburbs) bring them a lot of tax revenue and jobs (not to mention housing).
If the planning committees began delaying or even rejecting project designs in lieu of better or improved designs, a lot of developers would opt to pursue their profits elsewhere or be discouraged from building in the GVA.
Don't forget that one of the reasons that the suburbs and Burnaby in particular, are seeing a lot of construction activity and project proposals is because of how much easier (read: relatively less resistance and restrictions versus say, downtown Vancouver for example) it is to build there than other places.
Furthermore, there'd be an inadvertent side effect of increased condo price costs since good designs (ostensibly from expensive architects) don't come cheap, and developers being who they are would pass those costs to the end-buyers.
Ironically, it might also be a great way to slow down and cool down the red hot real estate market.
Although I don't think the city would quite see it that way.
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