Stephanie Mitchell’s Post

Public transportation projects in Redlands are transforming the real estate landscape, offering numerous benefits that can significantly impact home values: Increased Accessibility: Enhanced public transit options make commuting easier, attracting buyers who prioritize convenience. 🚍🚆 Higher Demand: Improved transportation infrastructure can lead to increased demand for homes near transit lines, boosting property values. 📈🏡 Community Development: New transit projects often spur local development, leading to more amenities and improved neighborhood appeal. 🏙️🛤️ Environmental Appeal: Public transportation reduces the carbon footprint, appealing to eco-conscious buyers and adding value to properties in transit-friendly areas. 🌍🌱 Future Growth: Ongoing and planned transportation projects signal future growth, making properties in Redlands a wise investment for long-term appreciation. 🚀📊 Ready to capitalize on Redlands' evolving public transportation landscape? Contact me today to explore prime real estate opportunities! 📞✨ #RedlandsRealtor #InlandEmpireHomes #CaliforniaDreamHomes #SellSoCal #BuyInRedlands #SoCalRealEstate #LomaLindaHomes

When choosing land, how vital is proximity to amenities for you? Your preference matters! Cast your vote and join the conversation about the perfect land location. 🗳️🏙️ 1️⃣Extremely important 2️⃣Important 3️⃣Neutral 4️⃣Not important 5️⃣Does not matter #LandLeader #LandLocation #Amenities #CommunityVoice #UrbanLiving #SuburbanDreams #RuralRetreat #RealEstate #DecisionMaking #CommunityEngagement

Protecting our built heritage is important but Brisbane City Council’s overzealous use of character overlays are locking whole suburbs — especially those rich neighbourhoods well away from flood zones — out of development. Research from Rachel Gallagher, Thomas Sigler and Yan Liu at The University of Queensland has found that this preservationist approach fails to adequately protect heritage while locking out poorer, younger people out of our most desirable neighbourhoods. Bad faith actors weaponise the language of heritage to exclude “undesirables” from their neighbourhoods and prevent the natural change and evolution of our city. This is sometimes called “exclusionary zoning”. Replacing scattergun approaches like character overlays with stronger, targeted heritage protections — and strong public investment in restoring, reusing and opening heritage buildings up to public use — will deliver better heritage outcomes for our city. It will also go some way to fixing our urban fabric, where skyscrapers and highways suddenly fall off into millionaires’ detached homes without a missing middle density to smooth that curve. We’re keen to identify buildings and precincts around Brisbane that need stronger heritage protections and work with fellow travellers to vision how we can turn bring these heritage sites to life and better inform and involve the public in their history. We’re just as keen to end blanket preservationist policies like character overlays that millionaire homeowners use to prevent organic development in their neighbourhoods while doing renovations and rebuilds on their own homes that destroy any genuine heritage value they had. It’s no surprise to anyone that many of these character precincts are high up on the hills near our inner city — ideal places to build out walkable, liveable density like Paddington, Highgate Hill and Ascot. These places are best placed to avoid worse flooding climate change brings. But while they’re protected, development is forced into industrial land along our rivers and creeks, leaving apartment dwellers at risk of isolation, blackouts and heat harms during future floods. If we’re to prepare for the worst case climate scenarios 2100 brings, we need to shift the locus of development up the hills and keep our rivers, creeks and wetlands for environmental restoration or smaller-scale water-sensitive development.

Let's talk about COASTAL ZONING 🌊☀️ Coastal Zoning means that your house is within the coastal zone, and that the Coastal Commission is in charge of overseeing any construction that takes place within that zone 👷 So if you're looking to build or add on, it's gonna take more time ⏰ This is just something to consider when buying your home, as it could lead to major headaches down the line 😕 If you're wondering whether or not you're in a Coastal Zone feel free to shoot us a DM and we'll be happy to help 🫶 - #coastalzones #coastalzoning #realestate #LArealestate 

What Signals a Healthier Housing Market by End-2024? #vancouverrealestateforsale #vancouverrealestateagent #vancouver #vancouverrealtors #northvancouver #northvancouveragent #northshoreagent #westvancouver #westvancouverrealestateagent

Trees removal begins as province's Ontario Place development plans get underway!!🌳🌳 #Bramptonrealestate #risewithshaleen #mississaugarealestate #realestateagent #realestate #realestatetips #SaveMaxRealEstate #toprealtor #investwithshaleen #bramptonrealestate #November #realtorlife #marketupdate

12 of the 13 councils have taken the deal on the TOD SEPP with some going even further and increasing the number of units. The exception is Ku-ring-gai who refused to collaborate with the State. Here I am standing across the road from Roseville Train Station in front of the sea of low density housing surrounding this critical public transport node. It's also restricted by a Heritage Conservation Area. The inefficiency of this station servicing a handful of residents living in detached houses, instead of what could be so many more, really stings in a housing crisis. #YIMBY #housingcrisis #sustainablecities #TOD

Sometimes you just have to tell it like it is. Especially when it comes to fighting for clean water, forests, biodiversity and healthy communities. Southeastern Massachusetts is getting organized and taking action to protect what’s left of our rare Pine Barrens forests, coastal plain ponds and waterways in the face of rapid development and #climatechange Here’s what I have to say.

This isn't easy to get right, and polarised opinions don't help. I have read elsewhere that the officers at Ku-ring-gai supported the proposals but it was the council that knocked it back. Happy to be corrected on that. Heritage isn't about putting blanket controls over entire areas that include properties of low or no heritage value. If people don't want to develop their properties, that's up to them. If a series of them sell their property to a developer so an apartment building can be built, also up to them. People will sell if the price is right. Market forces. Developers aren't buying up land in the expectation of not building on it. They'll have done their homework and will know what can and can't be done with a property, based on the planning controls that apply. It is concerning that councils are using arbitrary controls to tell would-be sellers effectively who they can and can't sell to. It is a proxy way of neighbours dictating what happens on properties they don't own. It'll work for a while, but not forever. The old argument "it will affect my property value" doesn't work either. Particularly in places like Sydney where house prices just go up. A property is worth at least as much as the last one sold on the street, irrespective of who bought it. They will have paid the most money on offer. If that happens to be a developer, the market for your street has just changed. If all you're worried about is how much your property is going to be worth when you sell it, I'd go and talk to that developer as they will pay the most money. I get that not everybody will want to sell. It is a well-established planning principle that people are not entitled to the view they enjoy from their property. Which is what this is really about. Stop gap measures to heighten one residents rights over others only slows progress. Investment will go elsewhere in the meantime.