Northern Light
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I have some data to share on parking lots, many of which may be suitable for housing, which I think all UT'ers but particularly @HousingNowTO may find useful.
At the above link to an appendix to a report heading to the next meeting of the Toronto Parking Authority is an extensive list of their properties, whether they are owned/managed, total revenue in 2023 relative to 2019 (expressed as a percentage), the total revenue of the lot in 2023 in absolute dollars and the rationale for the lot (in some cases).
I don't want to copy/paste the entire list, you can follow the link, but I will take one page to illustrate:
The list is ordered by 2023 revenue from high to low.
As you can see, this particular page which shows many lots managed for TCHC is of interest for fairly low revenues. Not all of these are development candidates, you can see some sites are quite small, when you look at the parking space count.
But by quickly sorting sites that should be available as they have low financial return; you can then re-sort those same to see sites that may be large enough to build more housing. * some sites are encumbered in one fashion or another.
The underlying report is here:
I may cross-post this to the parking thread, but it struck me as really good research material for publicly owned land that can be repurposed.
At the above link to an appendix to a report heading to the next meeting of the Toronto Parking Authority is an extensive list of their properties, whether they are owned/managed, total revenue in 2023 relative to 2019 (expressed as a percentage), the total revenue of the lot in 2023 in absolute dollars and the rationale for the lot (in some cases).
I don't want to copy/paste the entire list, you can follow the link, but I will take one page to illustrate:
The list is ordered by 2023 revenue from high to low.
As you can see, this particular page which shows many lots managed for TCHC is of interest for fairly low revenues. Not all of these are development candidates, you can see some sites are quite small, when you look at the parking space count.
But by quickly sorting sites that should be available as they have low financial return; you can then re-sort those same to see sites that may be large enough to build more housing. * some sites are encumbered in one fashion or another.
The underlying report is here:
I may cross-post this to the parking thread, but it struck me as really good research material for publicly owned land that can be repurposed.
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