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Chicken Man House

Check out the video if you haven't already seen it and if you have, watch it again!!

youtu.be/CJQi7fnyngU

With several houses in a row sitting abandoned for at least 7 years now, we start by taking a look that this one home in particular. A brick home with an upper structure more reminiscent of a barn than a house and what looks like an addition onto the back of the home with a stucco exterior. It along with its neighbours sit on a relatively large elongated lots with lots of backyard space. I would imagine these homes were likely built in the early 1900s all having their own unique characteristics. Being such a mature neighbourhood, the street is lined with large old growth trees that give the feeling of suburban living as opposed to a busy and crowded city.

The homes have been bought by a development company and the original plans were to build two 4-storey what they call stacked townhouses but to be honest, they look more like low rise condos to me. All of the available units sold out in one day before the zoning amendment had even been submitted, this is a prime example of the demand for housing in this region of the country. A group of local residents got together to form a committee against the new development, the opposition to the proposal gained some attention from the media and other residents of the city began trolling the people of the committee accusing them of NIMBYism. The development proposal went to the OMB and the board decided that the developers would have to cut the proposed size of the development in half. The new units which will range in size from 1500-3000 sq/ft start at $1.5 million which is almost four times the original starting price of the previous proposal. I believe the alterations of the development were a loss for both the developer and the local existing residents as well.

Is this a case a NIMBYism, possibly but honestly who cares, the people that use terms such as this are not the people that live in the area and have no vested interest in keeping the character of a neighbourhood. Let's put it this way, if you owned a home in a relatively quiet neighbourhood and someone wanted to build a new building right next door to you that was at least twice the height of your home, would you be happy about...I think not.

What do you think about this matter and how would you feel about the development if you were one of the current residents? Let me know in the comments below!

Description
Chicken Man House

Check out the video if you haven't already seen it and if you have, watch it again!!

youtu.be/CJQi7fnyngU

With several houses in a row sitting abandoned for at least 7 years now, we start by taking a look that this one home in particular. A brick home with an upper structure more reminiscent of a barn than a house and what looks like an addition onto the back of the home with a stucco exterior. It along with its neighbours sit on a relatively large elongated lots with lots of backyard space. I would imagine these homes were likely built in the early 1900s all having their own unique characteristics. Being such a mature neighbourhood, the street is lined with large old growth trees that give the feeling of suburban living as opposed to a busy and crowded city.

The homes have been bought by a development company and the original plans were to build two 4-storey what they call stacked townhouses but to be honest, they look more like low rise condos to me. All of the available units sold out in one day before the zoning amendment had even been submitted, this is a prime example of the demand for housing in this region of the country. A group of local residents got together to form a committee against the new development, the opposition to the proposal gained some attention from the media and other residents of the city began trolling the people of the committee accusing them of NIMBYism. The development proposal went to the OMB and the board decided that the developers would have to cut the proposed size of the development in half. The new units which will range in size from 1500-3000 sq/ft start at $1.5 million which is almost four times the original starting price of the previous proposal. I believe the alterations of the development were a loss for both the developer and the local existing residents as well.

Is this a case a NIMBYism, possibly but honestly who cares, the people that use terms such as this are not the people that live in the area and have no vested interest in keeping the character of a neighbourhood. Let's put it this way, if you owned a home in a relatively quiet neighbourhood and someone wanted to build a new building right next door to you that was at least twice the height of your home, would you be happy about...I think not.

What do you think about this matter and how would you feel about the development if you were one of the current residents? Let me know in the comments below!