Good to remember that a bedroom is a bedroom. Structural type is secondary.

The neighbourhood retail report as amended CARRIES 23-2.

Toronto Council votes to permit corner stores in all Old Toronto & East York wards, and expands permission for retail on some (but not all) major streets city-wide.

Yet more evidence that any given specific NIMBY objection to a project is, more often than not, a shell game for generalized opposition to change—it's merely the most compelling sounding argument—and addressing such individual concerns will usually not meaningfully reduce opposition.

Probably some Ford office/PC caucus lackey’s grandma is in a 20-year old lease and would get imminently evicted and so the told DoFo what’s up.

Many of the tech & business owners probably have side-gigs as landlords, and/or large RE portfolios. Execs are very often NIMBYs and don’t want more people living near their large urban homes.

other affordability hack: no on site parking

i'll keep saying it til i'm blue in the face

the way to address the affordability crisis and get more housing diversity - with better and more family sized homes - requires single stair & elevator reform.

who's going to lead?

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Do you have any sense of if that’s why he’s already reversed course on some of the changes?

They get gentrified when not enough housing gets built though. And often it’s the “anti-gentirification” advocates who insist on BANANA: build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything

Older voters hate condos and think everyone else hate condos too (includes any kind of multiplex — we just need to find a way to make back yards cheaper)