Shan moves to exclude 3 streets in his ward. He worries the retail spaces created won't just be small shops selling ice cream to locals, but things like "beef patties that are so popular that people from the 905 will come to get it." That'll just add to traffic problems, he says.
Toronto’s NIMBYs live on another planet than the rest of us.
This woman lives in Trinity-Bellwoods, one of the most popular neighbourhoods in the entire country specifically because of its vibrant small businesses and mixed urbanism.
Most normal people can only dream of living
The yimby case is much easier to make if your city is clean and safe. That is, cleanliness and safety should be key yimby objectives.
More Singapore, less San Francisco.
The research is in: If you want to build support for dense housing, you have to make sure American cities are places people want to live.
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Toronto city staff, whether in transportation or urban planning, are incapable of deciding what future they want for the city. That is, they can’t actually plan.
All they can do is balance out competing feedback they hear in their numerous community consultation meetings for a
Toronto city staff no longer recommend the Bathurst and Dufferin TTC routes get their own RapidTO lanes all the way to Eglinton. Instead, they want bus and streetcar-only lanes to stop at Bloor. torontotoday.ca/local/transpor…
"If Ford’s spending relative to the size of Ontario’s economy were equal to Wynne’s, taxpayers would save about $8 billion this year. If he were as fiscally responsible as McGuinty, they would save $14 billion annually."
Here's something fascinating happening in the apartment market right now.
The cheapest, oldest apartments (Class C) are getting crushed right now.
But ONLY in cities that just delivered tons of new apartments.
Let me show you the numbers:
Denver: Class C rents down 13.9%
Canadian elevators are too big, too expensive. This means that we build many more 3-4 storey buildings as walkups, limiting accessibility.
We should allow developers to build with smaller and more cost-effective European elevators.
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