Building density

A shopping center with housing that meets the city's building density goals.

Minthis Hills is situated on a protected Natura 2000 site, which spans five million square metres, with a mere 5% building density, offering tranquillity with mountain and sea views.

This will happen even if we somehow, through our current efforts to rewrite the relevant plans and policies, succeed in reducing vehicle trips and increasing building density.

a right of way) can secure a permit with the prevailing building density i.e.

Are we going to grow up, meaning with higher building density? Or are we going to grow out and spread farther?

-- Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd -- Property Valuers, Property Consultants & Estate Agents This government, a few months ago, in order to introduce a simple procedure to cover illegalities relating to the building extent and referring to houses/apartments, has introduced a new regulation which allows the owners/buyers to increase the building density prevailing at the time of construction by 20% or up to a minimum of 60 sq.m.

A third idea, for an upscale hotel, failed to meet the city's design goals and building density requirements.

The prevailing building density adopted for beach housing is now 20% (used to be 40%) and for hotels from the originally 70% reduced to 40%.

A third proposal, an upscale hotel from a Portland hotel developer, The Canterbury Group, didn't appear to meet the city's design goals and building density requirements, McLauchlan said.

In the medium term, the economy will face the ongoing challenge of the banks' deleveraging and foreclosure of real estate assets, while in the long term there will be multiple policy issues relating to the reckless incentives provided to boost construction by granting additional building density for various developments which has created 'pent up' oversupply.

Leaders also want the city to thoughtfully increase building density in established neighbors, and they want more city support for their associations, the summit showed.