City releases proposed fall budget adjustments October 31, 2024 The City released its fall budget adjustment reports today, recommending both spending reductions and revenue increases as part of ongoing efforts to tackle budget challenges. These proposed changes will allow the City to...

You'll probably see that happen soon, BILD Edmonton Metro's advocacy on single-egress buildings has gotten quite a lot of traction. Changes to the Building Code aren't that uncommon, we just had a change to fire wall requirements between units a couple months ago. That was from BILD Alberta.

The good news is that Edmonton is one of the only municipalities that has consistently increased housing starts, without a recent drop. A lot of chatter at real estate and development conferences use Edmonton as a case study in city administration. The bad news is that our strategic direction...

Surely it was obvious that I'm talking about administering the charges, not where grass clippings are.

Gives sellers an easy excuse to charge 25k more.

The cost of enforcing this at the municipal level would massively outweigh the revenue generation. We don't need more tax burden on property owners.

I think it might be an administrative failure. The article specifies a range of documents that Mayfield failed to produce, and that they haven't been repaying a 2.5M loan since COVID. I wonder if the person handling the loan quit, and no one picked up the responsibility.

There's a lot of interesting academic studies on how social media contributes to radicalization. That being said, most of the crazies on social media were already crazy, you just didn't have to hear about them.

Downtown housing is still pretty undervalued, IMO. Incentivizing more businesses in the retail spaces of mixed-use buildings is what downtown needs.

Note: This chart has not been peer-reviewed.

From Taproot: The City of Edmonton is on track to set an all-time record for housing starts and residential building permits, with housing starts up 48% and approved permits up 62% so far in 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. Apartments, row houses, mixed-use houses, secondary suites...

Automated development permits have sped up the P&D office, but multi-family development permits are still taking an average of half a year to get approved. That's before considering the time for admin work, construction, and time on market. Still, any interest rate drop or reduction in debt...

If anywhere needs purpose-built rentals, it's St. Albert with its 0.6%(?) rental vacancy rate.

Curious what regulatory changes could allow for net positive microgeneration - it seems like the AUC could just start installing higher kVa transformers? For-profit microgeneration already exists in other communities in North America, so clearly the problem must be rooted in infrastructure as...

Via the Cochrane Eagle: Why is home solar generation limited to personal use in Alberta? Thanks to decreasing costs and accessible grant programs, the number of Albertans with home solar panels has grown exponentially. While some people are content just getting a break on their energy bills...

From Reuters: TD Bank to pay $3 billion, face asset cap to resolve US money-laundering probe The plea deal, which includes a rare imposition of an asset cap and other business limitations, arises from multiple government investigations into what authorities described as pervasive issues. In one...

Are we uniquely bad at building rail transit in North America? It seems like every rail infrastructure project goes catastrophically over budget and takes an extra decade.

Great info, was this on the Council agenda?

This guy had means and motive.

It seems strange that the Camrose Resort and Casino would want to leave Camrose.