Ooof

I see edmontons current mature neighbourhood front yard setbacks as a condition to be fixed, if I'm being honest. The existing setbacks are restrictive in what it allows you to develop in many neighbourhoods if we were to stick with requiring the same setbacks. Before, when we required homes to...

What's wrong with this? Seems pretty reasonable to me

I'm sure a lot of people will blame the parents, but from talking to some teacher friends, the large class sizes is also causing issues by creating a bad environment for learning, with too many kids to control, and behavioral issues that don't have any resources allocated to those kids...

Oh, I thought you were making a joke about the port a potty...

Well it does say he welcomes our questions...

Very reminiscent of the university district in Calgary, but every building is like twice the height

Square boxes are fine if there's an adequate amount of ornamentation. I'm not sure of the history of it, but we have substituted ornamentation for massing and material choices. Most cities don't even have the skilled trades needed for ornamentation now, even if architects wanted to do it. I...

Hope you suggested he use less fibre cement panels next time

Since early 2024, Burnaby has had some of the best multiplex/missing middle zoning in the country, that allowed for almost 2 FAR in places as it was form/volume based and didnt prescribe a FAR. Even though multiplex zoning was a provincial requirement, I was extremely impressed as they've been...

Edmontons architecture has never been great, but it really does feel like the bar has been lowered in the last 5 years. Everything is a mess of hardie panel, random material choices, and random box shapes.

Some people literally can't believe that others think differently than them, so if others do things that they wouldn't, they assume it's "virtue signalling"

What year is this from?

These are businesses we're talking about here, thinking they would just donate if they didn't think it would benefit their company is incredibly naive. Companies don't give away money out of the goodness of their hearts, even charitable donations are for the goodwill it brings the companies.

Elections have become pay to win. Thanks UCP (Yes I know this has always been an issue, but they've made it inarguably worse)