Jericho Lands project now even bigger with 13,000 homes
Jericho Lands project now even bigger with 13,000 homes
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Jericho Lands project now even bigger with 13,000 homes (RENDERINGS) | Urbanized
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Unfortunately it's also one of those things where the NIMBYs do technically have a point; selling housing without parking doesn't get incoming residents to lose their cars - they're just going to put them in the closest uncontrolled spot, which will legitimately fuck up the neighborhood.
The requirement to have 'adequate' parking for a new residential tower isn't about meaningless inflation of prices - it's to make sure that the tower bears the cost and not the neighborhood.
We don't have meaningful mechanisms for 'making' people give up cars, and even if we could - transit isn't great enough in that region that it's necessarily a reasonable ask, especially for folks going in for the sub-market or similar, who are typically working jobs that can't be done remotely and are located off transit arterials, like construction or warehouse work.
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I mean, a meaningful mechanism is to not provide free car storage.
That area is already a priority for transit improvements; the designs even include a skytrain station for a millenium line extension, which is one of Translink's 10 year priorities. For the timeline of this project it seems pretty feasible, and building this project will push for the long-awaited extension even more, since it adds a huge trip generator and could reduce costs if built in conjunction.
And sure, plenty of people work jobs that require them to own a vehicle. But plenty of people don't. Just because non car-oriented housing doesn't fit everyone's lifestyle doesn't mean we should build every home with parking. Plenty of people work jobs that require a den, but we don't mandate a den in every home because a few people need one.
And concerns about street parking? Street parking for most residential streets over in Victoria are designated as 'resident parking only'. As far as I can tell it works fine. Any reason that wouldn't work in this neighbourhood?
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Apparently the development has "90% less parking than is stipulated by Vancouver by-laws" which is bloody fantastic for the house pricing. Having to build underground parking supposedly adds $100+k per home cost for a condo tower.
I imagine they would also embrace car-sharing networks, right? Seems like a very intuitive way of maximizing flexibility without requiring extensive underground parking lots. Either way, something that the Burnaby developments could take notes from.
I believe they're also wanting the millenium line UBC extension to have a Jericho station. That's still quite a ways away but it's good that they're keeping it in mind for the project.