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Originally Posted by Traum
IMO, any area that resembles Brentwood / Lougheed are gonna be in for some major infrastructure chaos. You have a shxtload of population all crammed into a densely packed area, and the supporting infrasture is just not there. There just in't enough road capacity, not enough public transit capacity, not enough community service support, etc. because our cities were not originally designed to support densities like that. Burnaby seems especially bad in this regard because they seem to just let any developer buy a small plop of land and build huge densities on it without taking any coherent community building plans into account. All sides directly surrounding Metrotown is like that too.
It's gonna turn into a total mad house...
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You should see Squamish. Behind the house I was in, they allowed three homes to be torn down to build 75 or 98 townhouse units (can't remember the final number). The townhomes are being built without driveways, and the developer was required to do (or invest in) zero infrastructure updates to the roadways. Now, this is Squamish. Presumably you're moving there because participating in all the outdoor adventure stuff is important to you. Within a year or two you'll own mountain bikes, maybe kite boards, skis or snowboards, perhaps a kayak. Oh, and you'll need a truck. But the homes they build have garages which are too short to fit a standard sized pickup truck. 75+ units jammed into where three homes were, with zero thought or accounting to where people are going to park, or even how they're going to exit to get to work and back.
The other areas in Squamish where the townhomes have already been built are hilarious. Every side road/street looks like a used-truck dealership lot after 6pm. Truck after truck parked on the side of the street. They've been adding so much density that there is a parking problem in the downtown area. Businesses are ticked off that customers can't find anywhere to park, no one who lives down there can find anywhere to park...it's a real problem. The Mayor was on the radio early in the week and she said (I'm paraphrasing) that she didn't think council should be addressing the parking situation because we're all going to be flying drones in 20 years.
I'm convinced every city council is just hungry for more tax dollars so they can waste it in more ridiculous ways than the council before them.