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930 Pandora is a proposal to build a 20-storey affordable housing complex including supportive housing units on parcels between 926 and 932 Pandora Avenue and the 900-block of Mason Street in the City of Victoria's North Park neighbourhood.
The project will be situated on City of Victoria-owned land, and is the first affordable housing proposal to fall under the auspices of the City of Victoria's Rapid Deployment of Affordable Housing process introduced in 2022, that allows municipal staff to grant approvals.
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A community centre and 36 child daycare will occupy the building's commercial component.
Who cares if it's a rental ... you still live there, still have to walk through all the crap and garbage to get out onto the street, and still have to walk or drive your kids anywhere beyond your balcony, you still have to breathe the air that is (apparently) infected with some of the most uncommon diseases known to modern society.
So let's alter the question just slightly to "what decent COV bureaucrat and/or staff would encourage anybody to live in that garbage and disease infected block"?
The entire project is utterly ridiculous, and pretty much demonstrates exactly what's wrong with the City of Victoria.
I think this place is going to be designed to have a 'poor door' (alternative entrances on either side of the building, one being for the subsidized section) The Mason street side will likely be the nicer of the entrances with the childcare.
Yes, there will be two entrances. One fronting Pandora, one fronting Mason. Will the residences not have access from either end of the building?
It says a lot that a building is being deliberately designed to perpetuate the Pandora hellscape. :whyme:
I don't know if we know that for sure. Won't residents have access from both sides of the block?
I don't know if we know that for sure. Won't residents have access from both sides of the block?
Usually the design is to force the elites (ie middle class) to use the 'poor' door so that they can resent their privilege each time they enter/exit the building.
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