The City of St John’s will be receiving 10.4 million in federal funding through the housing accelerator fund to stimulate housing growth. This will be done by a rapid initiative to have a text amendment to the city of St. John’s development regulations.
The proposed changes offer some gentle density increases on existing zones; however the impact of these changes is not known and no analysis has been provided. We, in partnership with Happy city St. John’s, will be providing our skills and expertise in ArcGIS and Q data analysis to help quantify the changes the city is proposing. This will include providing information about success rates of similar programs in other cities, the geometry of how some of these changes can take effect, and the proposed number of units this may create. In a later report, we’ll go over the deficiencies, where applicable, and offer suggestions from industry leaders.
You can head to Happy Cities website to see their post about this project. There will be a public consultation and virtual meeting as seen on the image to the right.
Our goal is to have the data processed before the end of the month for a preliminary report for the public and City Council. The coming month after that will be the recommendations report.
Our goal is to ensure that the effort the City is expending results in meaningful change. Our analysis can show, mathematically, whether or not meaningful change will occur within the city and help address the serious housing crisis our City faces.
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