Lorne Gunter: Edmonton council's ‘progressive’ infill policy an attack on existing homeowners

Here’s a suggestion for any city councillor who supported the current infill bylaw that permits eight-plexes to be built on any 50-foot lot where once only a single-family house stood: When you have eight-unit apartments or row houses on either side of your own home, come back and we’ll talk.

You should have to live next door to the reality of your policy.

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Infill developers should be subject to the same requirement. Let the first two lots onto which they cram some overcrowded monstrosity be the lots on either side of where they live.

Once they have lived a while with the consequences — the drop in their home’s value, the complete lack of privacy, the increased noise and traffic, overcrowded on-street parking, the chaos of 16 bins all over the road on garbage day — th