You raise a good point, there's absolutely overwhelming evidence that the opposition is not made up entirely of old, white men,and it's sexist to say so.

I went to a few Dinos games back in my younger days, but I wanted to see if McMahon was still as busy as it was back then, when 30 of us with a bullhorn and no cares could dominate the stadium. It's probably obvious to you all, but for the uninitiated I must admit that I cherry picked the...

Look at all the parking in this design! Like, there's a lot of parking already there and in this proposal, but it's somehow less than what is in the functional plan. Wow!

What are you even trying to get across here? Remind me who voted in the plebiscite that set the current zoning, and what the margin was in that one.

It completely writes out the important role played by Karens, for one. #herstory #wherewillthechildrenplay

I mean, this is hall of fame material. This 6 storey senior's housing? It's completely inconsistent with the neighbourhood. Way too big, way too tall! What's next to it? ... a five storey senior's housing building that's been in the neighbourhood for 50 years and predates virtually every...

The old unamended DP is also available; here's the before next to the after: The overall site use has changed as well: The two buildings on the south are still 3-storey office; the 3 (formerly 4) in the middle are still 6 storey, but the 4 (formerly 3) around the perimeter have risen from 6...

The better comparable (as in my table above) is not rail system use, but a measure of airport size such as boarding passengers. That represents both the passengers who are the talked-about market as well as workers (more passengers = more flights = more in-terminal shopping = more workers...

Here's some (pre-pandemic) numbers I put together showing weekday transit boardings at the airport stations of a selection of cities. What they have in common is that they are low numbers despite generally being in much larger cities with much busier airports. The full post suggests that...

Okay, I did the deep dive into this. The most detailed industry breakdowns available at the CMA level (304 different industry groups) provide more detail than the higher level summaries often given, which provides a clearer picture of the oilpatch employment. The definition can get as blurry as...

The big challenge is that the other team in SLC is really well established and plays at the exact same time as the hockey team. In the non-traditional and new hockey markets, there's: 4+ team cities - Los Angeles, Dallas, SF Bay Area (if you count the Sharks as a Bay Area team), Miami. These...

I think it's important to have a substantial urgent care centre in the middle of the city, given the huge daytime population (and pretty substantial nighttime population) nearby -- many of whom are without cars, making transport to a hospital harder. But an actual real-deal hospital is so much...

I told you to look at the headlines, not to actually read the stories.

Look at these headlines and tell me Salt Lake City isn't already primed to be a big hockey market: How Utah drove the Stanley cup craze Erin Alberty ~3 minutes Stanley cup mania has reached a fever pitch in recent weeks — nothing new in Utah, but now we're getting credit...

The parking already exists and most of it sits vacant all the time; this is just repurposing the inside of part of the existing complex. The main occupants include AHS cancer support services (I believe in the portion labelled Family Medicine wing on the plan), a Carewest facility with ~100 beds...

17th Ave can't have any car-free times because of the need for parking, says the owner of a 350 seat bar, which presumably would go under if it didn't have access to all of this street parking: Now that's a real crew cab! 2 bucket seats in the front, and 348 in the back, I assume.

Stephen Ave today. It's great that they're getting ready to have patio season, but how can they let cars drive on it? It's the busiest pedestrian street in the city, and the open sidewalk (with the patio fences, the sandwich boards and with cars in the street) is less than 2 feet wide. Once...

Some of it is just good old fashioned government policy. This area structure plan for "Crowchild 'C'": (what is now Sandstone, Macewan and most of Edgemont, Hawkwood and Arbour Lake) is a 1979 plan that says "An optimum overall density of 22 persons per gross developable acre should be sought."...

I pulled some data a while ago from the 2015 GHSL, which is a fine-level grid of global population. Here's the cumulative population distributions by density for Calgary, Edmonton (Vancouver as another point of reference) CMAs and the six US metros mentioned in the video (plus an average of all...

US metro areas are defined entirely by their commuter sheds. CMA (and the US equivalent) CBSA aren't just based on vibes or whatever, they're based on commuting flows. The Canadian rule is that an area needs to have 50% of their workers commuting into the centre to be counted as part of the...