Multi-storey underground basements for Toronto’s rich? That’ll only dig us all deeper into our climate change hole

By News on the Net -- Toronto Star —— Bio and Archives October 6, 2021

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Subterranean millionaires. This is what it’s come to in Toronto’s wildly unbalanced and increasingly wacky housing market. This week Toronto city council adopted a motion introduced by Coun. Jaye Robinson (Ward 15, Don Valley West) to assess the impacts of so-called iceberg houses in the city, “single-family detached dwellings,” the motion reads, “with large, multi-storey underground basements that protrude significantly beyond the surface footprint of the building.”-- More...