This. I’m perfectly okay with opening up the greenbelt as long as you make the density high-enough, and by “high-enough” I mean like Paris or Madrid or Manhattan. Pick a spot along the Lakeshore GO line and just build a station and a 10km surface LRT surrounded by a streetwall of eight-storey midrises.
I wouldn’t say I’m “perfectly okay” with it, but I do feel a plan like yours is the “least bad option”. For some of our housing supply, it might just be easier to build high-density on greenfield land rather than upzoning and running into NIMBYs. Paige Saunders has a great video which pretty much agrees with your comment.
The only thing I might change is which GO lines to build along as the Lakeshore lines are already the busiest in the system.
Make it medium or high-density. We need a much lower percentage of single family homes than we currently have
This. I’m perfectly okay with opening up the greenbelt as long as you make the density high-enough, and by “high-enough” I mean like Paris or Madrid or Manhattan. Pick a spot along the Lakeshore GO line and just build a station and a 10km surface LRT surrounded by a streetwall of eight-storey midrises.
I wouldn’t say I’m “perfectly okay” with it, but I do feel a plan like yours is the “least bad option”. For some of our housing supply, it might just be easier to build high-density on greenfield land rather than upzoning and running into NIMBYs. Paige Saunders has a great video which pretty much agrees with your comment.
The only thing I might change is which GO lines to build along as the Lakeshore lines are already the busiest in the system.