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A viral photo of Toronto is sparking debate about the city’s ‘missing middle,’ expert says restrictive zoning laws play a role. Rachel Goodman, Now Toronto.
When it’s difficult and expensive to get permission to build new housing, you get massive economies of scale from going as big as possible. It doesn’t make any sense to run the regulatory gauntlet for a six-storey apartment building. So you get islands of high-rises surrounded by a sea of single-detached houses.