Chow

For better or worse a lot of the city's development strategy going forward will be hotels

I wanna Hotel Czar lmao

The other thing - and this is fairly known within the industry - the condo market is such that only condos allied with hotel developments (ie hotel service condos) can sell in the current market

The thing that is holding up the DT office mkt from crashing is MS signing 29/32 floors of B6

This...nullifies that

Lol it's JKMC, ofc, it's dumb money chasing Klout

I simply don't understand why this isn't going back to the drawing board? Office is DD zone also permits hotels, CoV city hall wants hotels not offices (so does the market)

Those were beautiful ostriches tho who had been virus free for 11 mo

It's simpler on the level of "intra provincial policy and regulatory harmonization" lol

I mean which is why i think his policy is overselling it. Like "just co opt province wide policy" is simpler and easier

Well CoV just has a different (and much more stringent) regulatory process for childcare compared to BC at large

back during l'affaire meng wanzhou i heard people favouring very aggressive posture vis-a-vis China, and now they want to be closer to china to counterbalance; the Government was wise to avoid both extremes.

the public is mercurial lol

ehhhh we all know that's not how canada works lol

like yimby in canada is a spectrum: there's the generic pro building stuff, then there's the pretty smart and knowledgeable higher-end developers (ian, rennie, etc.) who generally work within market constraints, and then wayyyyy out in the boonies are the hardliners

which is like, not really a significant constituency in federal politics lol

the *actual* carney brain trust on this stuff (gregor, rennie, ian gillespie) are pretty smart and if he tried to go further he's basically down to the dirtbag urbanist / pro smaller developer left lol

part of the reason i think carney picked robertson in the first place is that he *personally* does not have strong opinions on urban affairs (his best buddy in public life, tiff macklem, is a pretty conventional "stop the daycares in residential neighbourhoods" type nimby)

baby?

i mean palace economy was a distinctly bronze age thing right?

ok but gregor robertson actually believes the same thing lol

a bald man covering his face with his hands in a dark room ALT: a bald man covering his face with his hands in a dark room

we are all Scholastic commentators / glossers now

YouTube video by ScrooserPrague SCROOSER in action

may i recommend...the SCOOSER
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEU6...

absolute death traps

in their case, within that timeframe - during which Asian (not necessarily 'overseas investor' as such, but you could say semi-exogenous demand) consumers were the chief market for high-end construction, it was a reasonably true approximation of reality

bigger problem the Cons have is that Trudeau era policy framework gave them a free ride and now that's actually getting systemically dismantled lol

I think crypto and NFTs count as creative product manufacturing

Actually entry level wages are a lot lower in Canada ($45K CAD vs like $50-70K USD)

Gentrification bro

there isn't really a way around that, most of the CD zones require discretionary zoning because any attempt to do "as right / uniform? zoning on these would require less density to be developed

see my thread:
bsky.app/profile/chow...

so I think OP makes a fascinating point, but perhaps it is actually a conservative, not liberal point lol

conservatives (more so than liberals, who were always litigious re civil rights) were willing to tolerate some surface-level unfairness until quite recently, when technology / norms changed

(also with immigration in Canada, the abuses were always there, but people start looking at it in detail and suddenly the consensus goes away)