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City-nerd with an interest in postwar metropolization, planning, urbanism-suburbanism, and the politics of city-building from the neighbourhood to regional scale. Recently completed a PhD at York University. Serves as the Planning Coordinator for the Beasley Neighbourhood Association and communicates as @rsfiedler in 280 characters or less.
Rob Fiedler looks at the Downtown Secondary Plans policies for complete communities, the challenge implementing, and why multi-unit family housing is important to the future of urban cores.
Though hardly fool-proof, the new Plan’s policies aim to encourage applications for tall buildings on larger sites, such as parking lots, that can readily accommodate them, without unduly impeding the reasonable development of other sites.