“Light-touch #density”: In many suburban communities, you don’t need big changes to zoning regulations to increase #housing, add newcomers, build livelier neighborhoods and lower taxes. So, how CAN you do all this? Allow duplexes everywhere in the city and then … just wait. Could it really be that simple? Well, let’s visit Palisades Park NJ and see. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/opinion/new-jersey-housing-crisis.html
"Most people are familiar with the large density centers around Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Shanghai, but the concentration in central China is surprising. The cities of Chengdu and Chonqing, in the Sichuan Basin, are part of a massive population center."
Here we goooooo!! Canada is expected to announce this week that all new cars must be zero emissions by 2035. Only 12 years left to buy a gas guzzler, people!
My province: population density ~= 1.7 people / km ^ 2. And the population here is concentrated heavily in the southern third of the province - up north, it's 0.2 or 0.1 people / km^2.
For large areas of my province, it will never be #economically feasible to build #charging infrastructure for #EVs.
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2 years? Not possible here. If we wanted to replace 80% of ICE vehicles with BEVs, we need major electrical #generation and #transmission upgrades. I'm #guesstimating it it started today, it would take 20 years.
NEW! #Toronto city council voted 18-7 to approve multiplex housing citywide — meaning duplexes, triplexes and four-plexes can be built throughout large swaths of the city. Neighbourhoods will no longer be preserved for single-family homes, as new rules allow for up to four units on a single lot — or five, if it’s large enough for a laneway or garden suite.
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