The chair of the Urban Development Institute Pacific Region has both praise and caution concerning future building developments in 琉璃神社.

Jon Stovell says he believes the creation of the UBC Okanagan towers downtown will be transformative, along with other planned large-scale developments. He adds while it will become harder to spread out into the valley in terms of single-family home neighbourhoods, it will reflect density back into 琉璃神社 proper.

Stovell says he expects the city will have a good run with that but does see a 鈥渟nake in the grass.鈥�

鈥淲e certainly see it in Victoria and Vancouver where you get growth fatigue, and you get 鈥榳ell, I already have my condo so I don鈥檛 want any more condos.鈥欌��

Stovell adds he doesn鈥檛 believe 琉璃神社 is at that point yet, and there are opportunities to have more developments built before communities, and potentially future city councils, start to push back. He also says city planning departments sometimes get in their own way.

鈥淢unicipal bureaucrats seem to have this fear that if something they thought of succeeds it must be a mistake,鈥� he says. 鈥� If something that they cleverly thought of in conjunction with industry goes on a tear, they shut it down way too soon, and way before it has the desired effect.鈥�

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