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They won't let you live that Bob's Burgers life! (lemmy.world)
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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

There are lots of places with apartments on the 2nd floor and businesses on the 1st floor?

Yes. You may not believe it from the incredulous-sounding question as you've written it, but 'mixed-use' is the standard for new buildings here, for instance.

  1. pedestrian-targeted commercial on main/ground
  2. professional services - lawyers, accountants, physios, clinics, tech - on levels 2-5
  3. potentially hotel or low-income housing on 5-10, depending on need
  4. residential above that,
  5. rooftop patio/common space

Newer buildings here are getting loading bays in the garage: so 5-ton trucks just go into the parkade for a loading dock and a freight elevator. Buildings targeted to 'market rental' will often have a loading bay JUST for moving trucks.

The brand new 35fl building in this region may be targeted at new doctors interning at the local teaching hospital: they're just across the street. Rumours abound about posh SROs with in-suite W/D (perfect for new docs) and a skybridge connecting the pro-serv level to the hospital.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

There are lots of places with apartments on the 2nd floor and businesses on the 1st floor?

Yes. You may not believe it from the incredulous-sounding question as you’ve written it, but ‘mixed-use’ is the standard for new buildings here, for instance.

There's a vast difference between mixed-use being "standard for new buildings" and having "lots of places" (measured relative to the decades upon decades worth of existing housing stock, which is almost entirely Euclidean-zoned and single-family only) be mixed-use.

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