https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/major-delays-for-504-king-503-kingston-and-501-queen-streetcars-after-derailment-and-power/article_48cfc608-2e4f-11ef-b3ad-a3dec2d957d6.html

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/major-delays-for-504-king-503-kingston-and-501-queen-streetcars-after-derailment-and-power/article_48cfc608-2e4f-11ef-b3ad-a3dec2d957d6.html

Also: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/sheppard-line-4-subway-extension-proposed.20503/page-338#post-2102155

It’s truly unfortunate that Toronto does not have a lot, or high-quality street trees. It’s trying, but - a long way to go.

I’m not advocating for people to not have a car - I’m advocating for a car-adjacent as opposed to a car-centric lifestyle. (BTW, I realize that my post was worded badly on this point.) We cannot build neighborhoods of any density and plan for people to be using a car to get to work, buy...

Yeap - you’ve posted the stats, which I really appreciate. I also like that the ROWs are much less wide than the redone Front (which is ridiculously wide) and does make that part of the city feel desolate; I really doubt that are will improve after buildout. Glad to see we’re not repeating that...

Is there any way to mitigate this, given that such temperature extremes are unfortunately going to be a common occurrence going forward? EDIT: oh. Sounds like “no”.

Thanks for the clarification @Northern Light. So it really all boils down to how much of the developable land is given over to roads. You’ve made the case that this was unavoidable given the lack of existing transit and planned high-capacity rapid transit. As a result, city planners designed...

I’m sorry - I’m still confused: it seems then, that this changes very little? Clearly I’m missing some important piece.

Am I understanding correctly that the big disconnect here is that Alex B. is calculating FSI based on all land subtracting the river valley lands, while NL is calculating the FSI based on the developable blocks (ie subtracting river valley land and streets)?

I wonder if this is tailored towards developers? Imagine if a zoning approval next door made intensifying their own land undeveloped (perhaps because of separation distance etc.)? Also, (you’re asking this) if I own a property next door to an intensified piece of land, presumably I can still...

Dentons has more details: https://www.dentons.com/en/insights/articles/2024/june/11/part-2-continuing-to-cut-through-the-red-tape “Expanded rights of appeal The final version of Bill 185 restored certain appeal rights that the original version of the Bill sought to eliminate. In addition to...

https://www.weirfoulds.com/significant-changes-to-planning-bill-185-cutting-red-tape-to-build-more-homes-act “ One of the significant amendments introduced by Bill 185 is the changes related to third-party appeal rights. Bill 185 limits third-party appeals to specific stakeholders only. Among...

Reducing the power of unions. Health care is the biggest line item in the province’s budget, has historically required above inflation budget increases (regardless of what the government actually provides) and the biggest line item and driver of cost within that budget are wages. Ideologically...

If we look at Ontario alone, Bonnie Crombie and the OLP’s messaging has shifted to a low/no-increase tax policy. Saying you’ll raise taxes is not a vote seller for a majority of the population, and, frankly - people don’t believe that their money will be well-spent. I also have to say that it’s...

The public routinely votes against taxes, or policies that would increase taxes. We are at fault, both for not critically thinking, and rewarding politicians who cater to that. FWIW, I think that our path is unsunstainable: we want to have American-level/style taxation with European-level...

Tweets like this are why I’m super skeptical about the next tranche of transit projects coming to fruition any time soon. It’s gonna be a transit desert for a long while after next year.

I suspect that tech will gravitate to hybrid (3 fixed days) for 70% of total employed base, 20% fully remote, 10% (if not lower) fully in person.

I honestly forgot that FSI still applied to proposals. I thought it was removed for plexes in the first tranche of EHON work? (Or perhaps all that was done was to harmonize the rules between detached and plex). Lot coverage minimums are nutty, and clearly exist to enforce a certain neighborhood...

I’m sorry - it wasn’t my intention to somehow obscure the source. I’ll make sure to italicize as well to make it clear that the quoted section was from the article.