A Friday announcement might make sense…?

In any case, it is good to review and update master plans like this. First, Metrolinx has been clear they re-examine it every five years. Second, as you have said, the RTP is made up of municipal TMPs, so really this is an exercise in centralization. Why is this valuable? Well, many of those...

Don't remind me of this one... I was thinking of something like this but 10x bigger and from Vranich; the irony would be off the charts. Hopefully this is a first and last though. We didn't even get the cream colouring!

Equilibrium between our handsome midrises and our godawful highrises is approaching fast. Cobalt is quite nice at ground level, and The Design District, while by no means architecturally spectacular, is certainly going to be of very high quality. Furthermore, Vranich hasn't touched anything on...

I would love to see a Hamilton builder get forced to retain something in a project. The juxtaposition would be spectacular.

This is fair, debating what to do if the lands remained was a hypothetical, and definitely a devils advocate perspective of mine. Glad you engaged with me anyways. In any case, do you see these lands actually getting added back to the greenbelt? And if so, what will break the camels back here?

I don’t really see how buying a REIT is on the table- where does that money come from? You know as well as anyone $8B is not a small sum of money. The government didn’t spend any money on unlocking the greenbelt. Not that there isn’t merit; it’s just not something I see as rectifying the issue...

Ah, thank you.

I’m glad these things are getting highlighted, because they show what awaits our government if they want to actually push forward- but I am not trying to claim these things are easy or even the “best path”. They are pragmatic, mere mechanisms with which the actions taking place can be justified...

Not unless it’s a condition of building there, which it seems might be the case- we know there will be conditions of some kind. Something to the effect of ‘units must be priced x% lower than market mean/median value’ akin to an affordable housing requirement. Unrelated, but a bit of my...

Since when is the “triangle” actually designated for development? I know Kitchener and Cambridge have plenty of land to expand into to the east/NE, but not nearly enough to reach Guelph- especially since Guelph seems to mostly plan on growing southward.

Peterborough strikes me as the kind of grey area between VIA and GO that needs some kind of service, but is too easy for either side to claim is 'not their problem' because of the distance. It fits into the same camp of KWC/Guelph, Barrie, Hamilton, maybe even Niagara and Brantford- the extant...

I think it would be worthwhile if members discussed what the 'next phase' projects will actually be, and how RapidTO fits into that timeline. We know the 'current phase' goes to 2031, including stuff like GO Expansion, YNSE, HaLRT, HuLRT, Finch, Eg, the three BRTs and any other subway projects...

This is what I was trying to get at more or less. LRT’s uncompetitiveness on speed is acceptable so long as it does a single job well, as a significant upgrade to a bus corridor. Not by taking on multiple roles of higher/lower capacity modes too. We can solve the issue however. As long as LRTs...

I always thought LRT was supposed to be for corridors that won’t need subway capacity, but would need more than what buses can offer. We could run into a paradox where the LRTs end up inducing subway-level demand, but the actual effects will have to be seen. If LRT was a good choice, it will...

To play devils advocate for a moment, what happens if the removed lands actually do get substantially developed before, say, the end of Ford’s term? Not necessarily speaking to the effect on the greenbelt and political integrity. I think there is a large part of the population, especially in the...

Architecture aside, I like the massing. Quells my concerns a bit that the tower is completely set back on the lot behind the alley. While I’m not quite sure about the current form of the addition ontop of the structure fronting King, in concept it plays off the midrise office towers nearby and...

The renders seem to suggest there is something like this though? Edit: For a greenfield development, I think this is generally pretty nice. Kinda surprised actually considering what kinds of site plans other cities will approve without a second thought. Sure it’s somewhat car-centric, but...

Kinda forgot that. Letting some of the older local players retain these sites has never turned out well for us (see Stinson, the Connolly) so let’s hope he’s struck a deal with someone better. I’d think you’d have to to increase the sites scope like this?

I would like to think that as per many heritage retentions in Toronto, the above structure will be treated to a relatively high-quality execution in order to lessen the impact of a 30 storey structure. If you can afford to work around heritage structures, I'd also presume you have the money to...