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I agree with Eby on his opinion of supply. The market is the way it is because we have so little supply. When you have enough supply to absorb both investors and residents, the price would go down as there wouldn't be more competition.

And really, the step that one must go through to build anything is ridiculous.

We should streamline the process where one single point is in charge of everything and as long as conditions are met, to be able to start building.

I'm not talking about building skyscrapers in the middle of Point Grey, but say someone with a big enough lot wants to convert from SFH to a duplex, that should be granted without having to go through a tedious loop of rezoning, development planning... etc. Those are a 6-12mth process if one is lucky. We have implemented so much restriction on zoning that something like going from SFH to duplex is not possible unless a rezoning application takes place. It's all soft-limit on development.

Instead, we should focus solely on the hardware part... is the lot big enough? Can the infrastructure in place (roads, service lines... etc) support the expansion of density? Is the area's environment (green space) being kept in line? Only limit it when the hard part doesn't support it.