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Originally Posted by VarBreStr18
Hastings is already super clogged with vehicular traffic Densifying is relatively easy, but moving people efficiently is a nightmare. Should density along existing sky train routes ,such as further east along Evergreen line.
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Hastings actually has excess capacity compared to places like 1st Ave due to people trying to avoid the Strip. Also, they could remove the on-street parking to provide better curbside bus lanes.
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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Don't forget Rupert and Renfrew. The entire Expo-Millennium-Boundary triangle should be at the top of the list.
Not sure what you mean by "grassy," but UBC is indeed getting a ton of new residences. Given student housing rates though, they're likely not going to attract any current student renters without MIRHPP and/or massive public subsidies. Staff, maybe.
As for reducing transit use, UBC's not just some academic monastery - you need housing for the faculty and researchers too. And more housing means more infrastructure/amenities to support it, which means more support staff either living on-site or commuting in... and the students are going to want to spend the nights and weekends downtown... so we can forget about a contained community.
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I think he's talking about the marginal grassy fields around some of the existing buildings, like the one Brock Commons is built on:
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2016/05/2...ive-on-Campus/
There's also Acadia Park. WTF is up with the empty section in the middle? Did they just forget to finish it?
https://vancouver.housing.ubc.ca/res...s/acadia-park/
It's intended to be Student Family residences.
Problem is obviously that Public Sector tends to move slower than Private Sector, and it's not like housing is UBC's #1 Priority.
Maybe they could allow developers to build on the UEL Block A and B. Not sure if they're leasehold or not, but the current UEL plan has no plans to redevelop it.
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Originally Posted by scryer
If we are talking about densifying other corridors, then I totally propose Granville Street. The street on the peninsula deserves an upzoning never-seen-before south of West Georgia to prevent it from becoming a second East Hastings. I want to keep the bars but I want to also build ontop of them including towers (if view-cones will allow it) and medium density 12+floors.
Granville street south of the peninsula also deserves greater densification efforts and upzoning as well (I'm thinking 6-12+ floors). Especially at the future South Granville station where it should be towers there along with the rest of Broadway.
But before we go crazy with densifying other corridors, let's remember the shameful waste of potential that Broadway/Commercial Station is right now...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granvi...nment_District
Not sure if the bars and nightclubs are compatible with even office towers... But then again, condos in NEFC, so