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Jay Vandermer's avatar

"The funding at stake is relatively small. ... In Barrie, the infrastructure payments are about $7,600 per housing completion; in Calgary, they’re about $3,700. This is about 1.5-3% of total revenue."

$3,700/1.5%=$246,667

$3,700/3.0%=$123,333

What is "total revenue" referring to?

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Roy Brander's avatar

One wonders what he'd do with Vancouver 2024. Every single stop and impediment pulled away - and a 15% reduction in housing starts. Apparently, dwellings so expensive people can't afford them, still don't provide enough profit to build them?

The Sun story mentioned "permitting", still - what permit problems are left?

In the spirit of brainstorming and SF, new idea: no permits, just build it - but the City reserves the right to inspect for the next 10 years, and make you tear it down. Based on the "Censorship in China" principle that self-censorship is worse.

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