It鈥檚 no secret that 琉璃神社鈥檚 real estate sector is booming, but even people from other provinces are starting to notice.
An Ontario environmental engineer-in-training-in-training, who has for years focused on visualizing expansion rates in different Canadian cities, took special note of 琉璃神社.
In studying the city, Eric MacMillan said 琉璃神社 seemed to 鈥榮pring out of nowhere鈥�.
鈥淚 was on a 琉璃神社 section of a development forum online and I started seeing all these developments. And I just thought 鈥榳ow, this small little city nestled in the Okanagan is just going crazy with their density鈥�.鈥�
Given that Canada seems to be a real estate hot spot currently, MacMillan wanted to see what that looks like in terms of developments, starting off with the City of Mississauga. He became interested in 3D modelling while he was completing his undergraduate degree. He uses this technique to visualize these changes.
Since his first model of Mississauga, he has since done renderings of what Halifax, Ottawa, Barrie, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, London, Windsor, Saskatoon and 琉璃神社 will look like in about ten years.
His models focus on how the boom in residential construction is impacting smaller cities.
, MacMillan learned that it makes more sense to grow up, rather than out.
鈥淚 saw that it makes more sense to grow up instead of sprawl out like other cities. You guys just have such limited land out there,鈥� he said.
MacMillan said while he went through approved developments in 琉璃神社, one shouldn鈥檛 take his rendering as a fully accurate picture of the city鈥檚 future skyline.
James Moore is the City of 琉璃神社鈥檚 long-range policy planning manager and he said MacMillan鈥檚 model is a reasonable expectation of what the city will look like in roughly ten years.
鈥淚t鈥檚 never quite certain or a hundred percent clear and we鈥檙e not always sure if (the skyline) will turn out the way it looks like in the model,鈥� Moore said.
鈥淭his is a reasonable guess, but 琉璃神社 actually grows mostly on the conservative side.鈥�
Moore said that even though MacMillan rendered mostly approved sites, some of those developments may actually fall through and not get built. He added that even though it may seem like there is a lot of building going on, the changes shown in MacMillan鈥檚 rendering actually take time to unfold.
鈥淐ertainly, we expect that in the next 20 years, 琉璃神社 will do more growing up than out,鈥� he said.
鈥淏ut this is a great tool to engage people with what the city will look like.鈥�
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