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Originally Posted by supafamous
A city council with any courage and any real empathy for the working class (or even middle class) would fight like hell so that buildings like 4 story condos were allowed in residential areas rather than only on major streets. The zoning guides specifically say to locate those kinds of building on major roads so they can block the noise for residential areas which is nuts - they're basically building walls full of working class folks to block road noise. That's not even taking into consideration the extra pollution from main roads.
The city is condemning low income people to more respiratory illnesses b/c they want rich folks to live more comfortably.
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I feel this is bordering on conspiracy theory though.
1 point of view is that they're on major roads to be close to transit as a dense housing development won't have much allowance for parking of personal vehicles...
Another point of view is that the size of sewer and water and power infrastructure required to feed density structures only exists on major routes. There's not gonna be a 20 foot wide sewage pipe or water connect under some side street in Vancouver.
Kinda tinfoil hat to say they're using structures to shield side streets from noise and pollution? That's pretty out there man.
I mean... are... uhm... "poor" people living in $900,000+ 2 bedroom apartments on Main St? Those are the destitute people that are having their health affected?