Everyone has probably been hearing for some time about the downtown housing boom in loft conversions. What you probably haven't heard is that they don't allow or encourage 3 and 4 bedroom units that would encourage famillies to move to the area. Apparently, the current incentives penalize developers for putting in this kind of housing. SO the loft conversions: they are studio, singles and doubles really aimed at singles or couples and not really condusive for famillies.

Talk about inadequate housing being built in to the system!

Oh and yeah...there are no plans to curenlty change this aspect of the new loft conversions now underway.

The message the city is sending is famillies can just go elsewhere.

when you have government control.

Face it -- government control of property inevitably results in inefficient use of the property.

Return power to the people. If its my piece of dirt, I should be allowed to do with it that which I think is best -- not what some bureaucrat thinks is best and not what some politician worried about his next election thinks is best. (Provided, of course, that my use does not interfere with my neighbors right to the use of his/her property.)