FAQs

Infill is a type of housing that is ground oriented and fits into established neighbourhoods. Examples can include laneway and carriage houses, duplexes, triplexes, and multiplexes. Allowing these housing forms is one way the City can help increase the amount of ground oriented housing other than single detached dwellings, a key objective of the Official Community Plan.

Townhouses are a ground oriented housing form comprising of a row of houses connected by common walls. Townhouses provide a denser form of development than single detached dwellings, but retain ground oriented features such as private outside entrances and often front or rear yards. Townhouses allow more diversity, availability, and affordability of ground oriented housing, while keeping the general character of the neighbourhoods they are added to. Rowhouses are similar to townhouses in that residents share walls, but differ in that they are on separately owned parcels instead of one large consolidated parcels.

Example of infill townhouses.

 

Ground oriented housing typically has a separate, exterior door that opens directly onto the street (without passing through a common lobby or corridor). An example of a ground oriented unit would be a duplex, townhouse, or single detached house.