[T-Bor]

Can someone help clarify some of these zoning reform changes from yesterday? Here's my understanding:

-Within 200m of most subway stations, developers can now buy single-family homes and, as long as other requirements are met (set-backs, etc), they can turn it into a 6 storey apartment. This is true even on side streets
-Across the city, 4-storey buildings are now permitted. I'm assuming this will be most common in the yellowbelt, where developers could likely buy two SFHs with larger lots, then turn it into a 4 storey apartment

Is this accurate, or am I missing something? If so, this seems to be a way larger reform than permitting sixplexes across the entire city would have been

 

[christiesplits]

Can someone help clarify some of these zoning reform changes from yesterday? Here's my understanding:

-Within 200m of most subway stations, developers can now buy single-family homes and, as long as other requirements are met (set-backs, etc), they can turn it into a 6 storey apartment. This is true even on side streets
-Across the city, 4-storey buildings are now permitted. I'm assuming this will be most common in the yellowbelt, where developers could likely buy two SFHs with larger lots, then turn it into a 4 storey apartment

Is this accurate, or am I missing something? If so, this seems to be a way larger reform than permitting sixplexes across the entire city would have been

Agreed. I would like an executive style summary of the changes. If only there was a bright, directionally inclined UT user who could put this all in layman's terms.

 

[T-Bor]

And if said bright, directionally inclined UT user does appear, I'd also ask the following:

-Yesterday's announcement highlighted that 6-storey buildings that front onto major streets within 500m of a transit station will be permitted. But wasn't this already expected to be permitted through the EHON reforms? I.e. 6-storey buildings permitted on ALL major streets?