Stronger Kamloops

  Aka: Why you need to support as many new apartments in Multi-Family Zones as we could possibly build, and they should be built as soon as we can The premise: All the restrictive zoning holding back Apartments in Urban areas is: Driving up the cost of single-family homes Turning single family homes into illegal apartment buildings The demographic of people in homes has changed dramatically in 50 years, as have lifestyles Lowering the quality of life for those who lack the privilege of choice in housing Creating the traffic and parking issues that NIMBYs hate about apartments Reducing the effectiveness of our transit system "People don't want to live in Apartments" ---------------------------------------------------------- This is Chapter 6 to an series of articles about housing affordability, infill and urban development. If you are interested in the topic the past subjects are listed below: Chapter 1:  How Infill lowers property taxes  Chapert 2:  How Suburban Deve...

 Part 3 - entitiled "Why its so hard to build on Tranquille" is a series of case studies that show how with the current paradigm of City regulation, building or renovation of buildings is financially impossible - thus despite all the great things happening on big lots by big developers, the small buildings largely remain boarded up and empty lots remain empty. First I want to highlight what our Neighbourhood Plans have been asking for. In all, The North Shore has had 3 Planning Documents that specifically address the concerns and aspirations of the neighbourhood: The McDonald Park Plan (2004) The North Shore Neighbourhood Plan (2008) The Draft North Shore Neighbourhood Plan (2021) The North Shore is also addressed specifically in other plans, like KAMPLAN - the Official Community Plan for the whole city, the Sustainable Kamloops Plans, Transportation Master Plans and others. All of these documents see thousands of hours from City Planners, hundreds of engagement sessions, wit...