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[deleted @RyanJabs]

Long time coming, but after 4 years of navigating a challenging municipal process, Lapis Homes and Urban Thrive are pleased to announce a one of a kind pre-sale program of our beautiful 9-home, car-free #yyj townhouse project that we’ve called Folk (https://t.co/LcO00O8amz). 🧵

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@MurdochOakBay @markstrategy @Ravikahlon In good faith that you’d like to make improvements, when an anti-housing municipality has tabled a bylaw that will make housing more expensive, a developer must anticipate it will be passed and prepare for those costs. This is one of the reasons I don’t work in oak bay.

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I won't propose a project in @MurdochOakBay's community because it'll get rejected or be saddled with way too many costs to build. They're not hitting @ravikahlon's targets unless the province removes their land use powers or they upzone broadly for these homes.

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@MurdochOakBay @markstrategy @Ravikahlon On the blasting, you’re not aware of this? Your council has given direction multiple times:

https://t.co/GN45pIMfhl

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@MurdochOakBay @markstrategy @Ravikahlon Oak Bay always buried the full cost of upgrades on new projects, & I suspect the muni does the same with these new charges. If you’re serious about hitting the targets, might be worth accepting the significant barriers and risks and addressing them rather than defending them.

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Mayor @MurdochOakBay "said he’s optimistic that when the province reviews what Oak Bay has done over the year, an adviser will not be necessary."

What they've done is below.

Hopefully, the @bcndp & @KahlonRav address this swiftly, as many munis will be watching closely.

[Mark Holland @markstrategy]

@RyanJabs @MurdochOakBay @Ravikahlon Since the targets were given, oak bay has responded by massively increasing dccs, accs, and adding a punishing anti blasting bylaw.

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@Trevorinvi38974 @MurdochOakBay @Ravikahlon For decades, local gov edict has restricted communities from positive natural growth that would have accommodated families and small businesses in healthy urban development patterns with lower housing costs.

The system you want to preserve creates community withering sprawl.

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@pgcmorgan @dad_nrg @mattdellok @bcndp @KahlonRav There are too many goals baked into the policies and the many, many bylaws guiding this small form and they continue to get more onerous. If we want smaller housing forms, we need to make it simpler and easier. This is where the @bcndp could step in with a blanket bylaw.

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@dad_nrg @pgcmorgan @mattdellok @bcndp @KahlonRav I'd encourage you to make an application to build a middle housing project there and see how much alignment you experience (or just check how few small projects are actually being proposed and built in that municipality).

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If you create a culture of no, don't expect people to believe you if you say you're probably going to start saying yes to things if they're in the right place, at the right scale, for the right people and for whatever else you subjectively think is right.

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@pgcmorgan @dad_nrg @mattdellok @bcndp @KahlonRav Munis continue to encourage a climate/community killing tall & sprawl style of dev. The only way they hit their targets is through massive 6-24 storey builds b/c the small stuff remains too difficult. If they want smaller density, they need to stop treating it like the big stuff.

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@pgcmorgan @dad_nrg @mattdellok @bcndp @KahlonRav Victoria has posted on their website that they're getting around the legislation because they put in an almost impossible bylaw to work with before the legislation came out... and they're seeing very few projects come forward, and fewer approved, as a result. It's too difficult.

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@Projoiner @bcndp They have specific goals. The problem is that they have way too many goals and it limits feasibility on many lots, which is why uptake is slow and takes a lot of planning time (almost every project will need a variance).

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Just had another notice that drywall is going up another 7-8% this year. Concrete is going up 5%. Well beyond current inflation.

With the new municipal fees and bylaws and the much more expensive @bcndp building code changes, new construction is going to continue to increase.

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If municipalities truly want to increase their urban canopy & address the housing crisis, this is the way to do it without obstructing housing. And this will provide way more public benefit for cooling, stormwater runoff, mental health & aesthetics.

But this takes leadership.

[Bloomberg @business]

CityLab Daily: Paris wants to replace parking with trees https://t.co/tSTsBulH7d via @citylab

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@EwingLesley It’s a strata building. I explored fee simple a few years ago but it was pretty burdensome. I’m not aware of any locally. Things might have changed since then (I’m not sure). There are some strong social benefits from having small stratas as long as they’re set up well.

[deleted @RyanJabs]

Long time coming, but after 4 years of navigating a challenging municipal process, Lapis Homes and Urban Thrive are pleased to announce a one of a kind pre-sale program of our beautiful 9-home, car-free #yyj townhouse project that we’ve called Folk (https://t.co/LcO00O8amz). 🧵

[deleted @RyanJabs]

And I'd encourage the @bcndp and @KahlonRav, if he is reappointed as the housing minister, to start rolling back the many new costs the province has added on housing in the last decade, as well as aggressively enforce and strengthen the legislation they've recently introduced.

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I'd also encourage municipalities like @saanich to address the burden of costs they put on housing -- at least $100,000 to each of these homes -- and eliminate the lengthy approval time which leads to higher housing costs (costs are up by about 80% since we started the process).