What is something like that used for?

Batteries have become much cheaper in the past two years. The article is well worth a read and lays out good evidence for a huge coming shift in the automotive sector. To compare to a different technological shift almost two decades ago, even though LED screens had drawbacks, once they were...

On the one hand I get that this doesn't front on Marlee and that's why there isn't any commercial space. On the other hand, it would be nice to be able to have a coffee shop/cafe or something right next to a subway stop.

Nothing wrong with what you wrote, I thought you have a good fresh perspective on the park. It surprised me reading your post when you came in through that southern entrance, because for me that is the one I use least out of all the ways into and out of the park and I didn't think of that as the...

I took some time to get my thoughts together on the Walter Saunders Memorial Park. I think Northern Light's comments on the park (briefly: landscaping needs work and trees in poor shape, "main" entrance underwhelming, and no pedestrian infrastructure on south side of the park) to be largely on...

Their website did say that they want to include a makerspace. I do very much appreciate how active/public transit they are positioning the development as, and they are right that the Caledonia Go station will make it very, very easy to get right to downtown very quickly from it.

Sure, it's a cheap shot but I'm not particularly inclined to be generous when the op-ed's author is making an argument not just from an aesthetic viewpoint, but from the aesthetics of nostalgia. The idiots on the 401, as you rightly point out, are young, but I think their collective...

The rich sensory experience of internal combustion? Perhaps the obvious headwinds he mentions in the second paragraph and glosses over--particularly cost--are the real issues, rather than EVs being just too darn quiet, efficient, and not meeting his boomer brain car expectations.

The biggest benefit to putting even a small stub of protected bike lane on Roselawn is that there's actually quite a few apartment buildings on that small stretch with more being built. It's good that they will have high quality protected infrastructure.

It's really positive they're moving forward with improving the active transportation infrastructure around Marlee. I hope this is the start of revitalizing around the area--the bike lanes (painted stripe) on Roselawn to the west have all but disappeared, and the bike lanes on Marlee to the north...

That's not a very convincing argument. Why does a factory open new production lines when doing so will hurt their margin? Because there still is sufficient demand even with the additional supply to have an adequate return on investment. The same idea is true of housing. However, what's been...

That's good, thanks!

Why are they talking about widening Marlee? That seems about the worst possible policy response. The area has good transit and biking connections and those should be strengthened, not increasing automobile capacity.

I like how that aerial contextualizes how close the developments in this area are to the apartment neighborhood to the near South, the huge area of single family homes, and the massively underused Glencairn Station.

That design is not going to be disruptive. It's certainly not an "exceptional height" at seven stories. The densification of Eglinton is desperately needed.

All good changes, particularly the marked decrease from 60% of units having a parking space down to only 40% now. The more movement away from car infrastructure, the better for the city.

I think concerns about traffic are "reasonable" in the sense that they aren't coming out of nowhere. The Lawrence/Allen and the Eglinton/Allen intersections are generally clogged with cars and, I would say, flat out dangerous at all times to pedestrians and cyclists as car drivers are often very...

The city chose to recommend against approving a building that should have been approved. That's a delaying action. They got some minor aesthetic changes, the better part of a year's delay, and for what? Honestly, I am not very much concerned about a 6-story podium versus a 10-story podium.

Seems like pretty marginal changes to be worth more than half a year of delay from the city.

Weird. Turns out that the project actually was "reasonable by any objective standard, as currently contemplated, in light of the supporting infrastructure in place." I wonder if that will cause someone to reconsider their assumptions and avoid magical thinking. It's positive to see an increase...