One of the common designs I’m seeing is two attached duplexes (four units up, four basement suites) which are rapidly adding more affordably housing stock to mature neighbourhoods. Part of the rationale for allowing small-scale multi-family homes is to provide more housing choices as well as improve overall housing affordability by adding more housing supply to the market. These kinds of small 8 unit apartments are quite common in other areas of the city and do serve a need (singles, renters, seniors, students, couples, etc). We know the city is changing, and the housing choices need to keep pace.