Ottawa’s proposed development charges seem to acknowledge that servicing suburban single family homes is more expensive than serving urban apartments. Why aren’t property taxes less for apartments as well? In many cases multi-units pay more in property taxes than houses do!

Aging at home is what people want, and what governments have long said is the key to easing pressure on the health care system. So why is home care so broken? thelocal.to/homecare-aging…

The #TPL Social Impact Study was released last week. The results show how vital these "third places" are to community building. The Toronto public library will always remain my favorite institution. Eric Klinenberg said it best, "palaces for the people". torontopubliclibrary.ca/content/about-…

Can he create a scalable municipal implementation plan for other municipalities, please? Alvin Tedjo well done.

The one day I decide not to Bike Share Toronto into work and take #TTC there is zero service past Broadview. Active transportation for the win, always.

Just going to leave this here… If Brad wants to keep advocating for the 7% of people who use the Gardiner, fine, represent your constituents. But if so, he should be spending 10x the effort advocating for the majority 70% of his constituents using public transit.

Thrilled that Crow's Theatre is bringing back 'The Master Plan' for another run. Urban planning meets local theatre, yes please. Tickets go on sale June 3!

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Huge win! Indicative of the mindset shift re intensification happening at City Hall.

It’s time for Ontario to legalize Point Access Blocks, or “Single Egress” up to 6 storeys, and ideally 8. For too long our unwillingness to change, despite modern advancements for fire safety, has held bad a key reform. It’s time to move forward on this in a new Building Code

You completely misunderstand. Let me try again (since you didn’t read the thread) a little more succinctly. A subway does not defacto = a higher level of service (seems obvious, but your reiteration of lines on a map shows you didn’t get this). We have a subway, buses,

Last week, I joined Waterfront for All and More Neighbours Toronto to discuss the future of Toronto’s Villiers Island and Keating Channel districts. There have been many criticisms of the plan, championed especially by Alex Bozikovic Here is some of my thinking (a 🧵) 1/X

As seen on the way back from my morning run, a first-of-its-kind microforest in Toronto's Danforth Pocket neighborhood. Love seeing neighborhood level ecological restoration initiatives like this.

"Bike Share’s ridership last year was 5.7 million. That’s their highest-ever annual mark, and an increase of 1.1M above 2022. This year appears poised to smash the record again. Through to the end of March, ridership is tracking about 36% higher." loom.ly/sHimYIE

Giving me ideas...

This is exactly the type of small scale, mixed use local business that we NEED across Toronto's neighbourhoods.

I’m going to get hate mail for this post. But this is me cycling on Bloor at 6am. It took me 9 minutes to get from Dundas & Bloor to Yonge Street by bike (yes faster than average). I hate the congestion, and I’m always driving since I need my car to get to meetings in the

Round 3! All graduate students at University of Toronto are welcome to apply to join Chiyi and I in Planning and Designing for Community Power. We're thrilled to offer this seminar again with the support of Department of Geography and Planning, School of Cities and Daniels Faculty. Let's dream up alternative futures together!

Today, I updated the BC Building Code to allow for Single Egress Stair (SES) designs in low- and mid-rise buildings.   By allowing SES, we will boost our housing supply and create more options for families who need larger layouts and designs. 👉🏾 news.gov.bc.ca/31592 🧵[1/4]

Despite moves that have been made on the gentle density front over the past few years, Toronto is notorious for having restrictive zoning policies that rarely budge, with the lion’s share of its land zoned for single-family homes and not much else. storeys.com/toronto-planni…