A drawing of a rooming house planned for 2335 Baseline Road, on the site of a current bungalow near Algonquin College.
The city's draft zoning bylaw aims to allow rooming houses across the city with less parking, and current planning policy is already making it easier to build them bigger. Some residents took issue with that at a committee meeting Tuesday.A drawing of a rooming house planned for 2335 Baseline Rd., on the site of a current bungalow near Algonquin College.
A small group of residents sat through the hours-long meeting in audible frustration — before three came forward to air grievances about how that policy fits with their low-rise community. "We want to keep our neighbourhood the way it is," he said, before addressing the developer. "It's a business for them. These are our homes."He said the grass is a jungle full of garbage, raccoons and other wildlife. He called it "disgusting" and "unbearable."
He noted that the province stepped in to force cities to allow triplexes on every residential lot. Each of those could have four bedrooms, so Bolduc asked why a 12-unit rooming house should be treated any differently. Each room would have a bathroom, and there would be kitchens in the basement and on the first floor. The project would have garbage storage and parking for six bicycles.He called it "human scale" and said it would afford a "high quality of life" for a wide range of residents.
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