City of Burnaby cuts permitted size of new multiplex homes due to public outcry

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burnaby-small-scale-multi-unit-housing-policy-amendments 

While a 2 floor house might be cosy, a four-floor house simply provides more living space.

Back in the day, an owner could build as big as they wanted to, within reason. Would the no 4th floor crowd like to remove all of the historical evidence and history of Burnaby houses with 4 levels?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/burnaby-multiplex-housing-changes-9.6944251 

This might be more evidence of the the backwards BC mentality. Ignorant people don't seem to realize that over a century ago, many houses had 4 floors or levels.

https://www.burnaby.ca/our-city/news/2025-10-16/city-council-cuts-height-size-of-new-province-mandated-developments 

So now there is a LETS GO BACKWARDS push to a time before the 4 floor houses.

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Planning_Images/_Unrestricted/SOS/BBY-3814-Oxford_2013.jpg?width=280 

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark495 "Constructed in 1909, this house was built for Angus MacDonald (1857-1943) and his wife, Margaret Isabella Thompson MacDonald (1862-1939)." 

So far, the anti 4th floor crowd hasn't been able to remove the historical evidence that a lot of older homes had 4 levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnaby_Art_Gallery , https://www.burnaby.ca/services-and-payments/venue-rentals/burnaby-art-gallery

Given today's land costs, a 3 floor house has less living area than a 4 floor house. You used to get more house for the money. There are plenty of 2 story jokes in Burnaby & the Greater Vancouver Region. 

https://burnabybeacon.com/p/uncovering-burnaby-hart-house-restaurant Counting the attic and basement level, this house easily has 4 floors.

https://evelazarus.com/overlynn-burnabys-most-haunted-mansion Another nice, big 4 story house that todays NIMBYs might not allow, if built today. 

https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=2355 , https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark858

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38429

https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=3799

https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/image-image.aspx?id=3799#i3 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/6522750987837395/posts/9414677511978047 BIG and wide, something that todays NIMBYs don't want. 

https://do604.com/venues/overlynn-manor , https://moviemaps.org/locations/10w 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/im-being-watched-paranormal-investigator-notes-presence-in-haunted-burnaby-mansion Unfortunatly, it's the NIMBYs that are watching to make sure that things are scaled back. 

https://theprovince.com/life/the-stories-behind-10-magnificent-mansions-of-metro-vancouver   

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=4+floor+houses

Public backlash to 'gigantic' multiplex homes in Burnaby, B.C., has council scaling back

 https://ca.news.yahoo.com/public-backlash-gigantic-multiplex-homes-120000935.html 

A four-floor next to a two floor joke. People don't seem to realize that over a century ago, Burnaby had several houses with four levels. You got a lot more house for the money back then. So now the NIMBYs want to push things back before the era of the 4 floor houses. 

There is nothing wrong with a two floor house, its just that there is a lot more living space in a 4 floor house. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=4+floor+houses

Metro Vancouver Housing Deficit Grows To Over 45,000 Homes

 https://storeys.com/metro-vancouver-housing-deficit-fall-2024/

For several decades, multi-unit 4-5 story houses just weren't permitted to be built in Vancouver. Even the shoebox like, Vancouver special should have been allowed to have at least 3-4 levels. Plus, there should have been several 6-10 story block size apartment buildings or flats like in Paris & London. There was quite an emphasis on Vancouver stumps, especially, no 65 to 85 floor buildings like in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane & Toronto.

Very narrow bridges, which make it almost impossible to have a proper & efficient express bus & HOV network for the region. Fortunately, the backward BC mentality was never able to make it over to Australia to prevent bridge expansion or duplication. 

Then even by late 2024, the first 2 SkyTrain lines only have 4 car trains of the newer coaches. The joke that is the Canada Line, still only runs 2 car trains. All 3 lines should have been designed to eventually have stations that could accommodate 8-10 car trains, but that would actually enable more people to efficiently travel around the region.

Fortunately again, this inept & horrible BC planning mentality was never able to infest & stop the Toronto Subway from having 6 car trains. However, by now, the TTC should have been running 8-10 car trains. It would have been chaos if the Montreal Metro was only running 3 car trains for the past several decades. Such an absurdity would be indicative of a, WHY EVEN BOTHER TO BUILD IT, mentality? Thats been the ongoing problem in BC since plumbing & electricity was first implemented.

Just to allow backwater BC to catch up to Alberta & Washington State would be challenging enough. Then to gradually think & plan on a scale of a Quebec & even an Ontario, might as well be just another Sci-Fi pipedream.