could take them from people who see them only as a burden.
values. In residential areas, setbacks could be back from the road, but developers will only set back as far as their demographic values (and thus is willing to pay for), often much less than the cities regulations. In commercial areas, while parking requirements deliver the number one punch, maximum lot coverage, maximum building height and maximum density deliver the knock-out punch.
One of the many houses on only one block of St. Paul downtown; backyards that the occupants clearly do not value or do not have the resources to maintain
Setbacks, lot coverage and density are something that the private sector can easily be left to take care of on their own. For enclosure it is important to maintain one setback per street. The market value of the land determines the density a developer can build on it, and the developer will maximize that value, thereby raising all neighbouring property
The cities “Arterial Commercial� C-6 zone, allows maximum coverage of 50% and a maximum building height of 6 meters or 2 stories. They also require a minimum lot area of 450m2. Further to all this, if adjoining a separate-use, like residential, it is required that a fence be built to separate the uses. As the landlord of Tudor Village on Summit Drive, I would be pretty unhappy about having to build a chain link fence to keep all of my potential customers in the apartments on Arrowstone out.
High-Value buildings like this one are illegal in 90% of the city
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