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The Stroads Need Fixin’ – Del-POP Dispatch #11 (Archive)
Welcome to our newest subscribers – we’re thrilled you’ve signed up and encourage you to get involved! Check out our updated website and join our lively Slack chat where the last month has seen a flurry of great posts and discussions. Council is meeting on April 26 to consider an important application for 48 market rental homes in Tsawwassen on 56…
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We can make Delta more people-oriented by densifying residential and commercial space in the town centres of our three major communities, spaces that have low vehicle traffic and are walkable and transit-accessible to everyone. Building mid-density housing, such as walkup apartments, townhomes, row homes, and even small apartments next to town centres lowers both vehicle traffic and pollution caused by traffic, leaving more spaces for walkers, cyclists, transit users, and everyone in between.
Housing-Induced Poverty Makes Us All Poorer – Del-POP Dispatch #12 (Archive)
The State of the City– “The high proportion of single-detached housing in Delta is not meeting the needs of the community.”– There is a clear “expectation of dramatic changes in housing type need over time.”– “Different types of density, like infill housing, midrise buildings, and highrise towers, are appropriate in different areas of Delta.”– “Some increases in density…