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Noise and other nuisance
Considerations for housing developments near existing industry
Noise and other nuisances are significant factors when the demand for housing means situating new residential developments closer to industries and retailers that rely on around-the-clock operations and delivery schedules. Photo: Adobe Stock
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September 2024
- Page 19
As American journalist and essayist H. L. Mencken noted, more than 100 years ago, “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.”
There is no simple and correct solution to the housing crisis. There are too many factors contributing to the growing pressures on the already strained housing supply for anything “simple”: construction costs and development fees; inflation and interest rates; skilled labour availability; aging and
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