As the downtown peninsula's sites for new developments are transformed, pressure increases to allow greater population density in other areas of the city. The build-up of mixed-use projects along traditional transit corridors has proven to be particularly effective strategy in absorbing density, while causing only modest disruption to settled neighborhoods of single-family dwellings. The transformation of Mount Pleasant around Main Street and Kingsway begins to demonstrate the new sense of density in the precinct, and one can perceive a first glimpse of distinctive urban ambiance on the horizon!
