LEAVE BROOKSWOOD ALONE!: Compressive Housing

SAVE OUR COMMUNITY FROM UNCARING PEOPLE!

SAVE OUR COMMUNITY FROM UNCARING PEOPLE! Working hand in hand with developers, Langley Township continue to force a plan that will change the landscape of Brookswood from a community with rural (“Horse capital of BC”) roots to a crowded urban wasteland of row housing and condos just like so many other communities in the Lower Mainland. We believe Langley Township is listening to the wrong people, and we wonder if the planners and “experts” who have devised this plan actually live in this community. It seems the Township doesn't care about keeping our community a beautiful place to live, where people can own larger properties with big trees, they just care about squeezing as many people (and as many tax dollars) out of the land as they possibly can. Don't let them do this to us and our wonderful community, don't let them destroy where we live the same way they did Willoughby! We CAN stop them! Gather together to save our homes and save the brooks and woods in Brookswood. Make your voice heard. Contact the Township of Langley, attend their meetings to find out what they have planned for your neighbourhood, voice your disapproval!

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Compressive Housing

def. Compressive housing

n. 1. Planning and constructing as many houses or living spaces possible on a parcel of land therefore increasing the livable density of an area. This includes townhouses, row housing, condominiums, or any type of multifamily dwelling that is built up or stacked vertically or horizontally with very little or no space between units. This type of housing is often used to increase the tax base of an area or to maximize a developer’s profits.

2. Packing as many people as you can into a living space.

3. Reducing lot sizes to accommodate many multifamily dwellings.

4. A favela.