The ASP included:
- fully sprinklered building
- widened stair (1200 mm vs 900 mm)
- expanded landings (1650 mm)
- stairwell skylight for smoke exhaust
- improved fire rating for structure, suite separation, exit, balconies
- every unit has balcony for refuge or direct exit.

After TO Council passed a motion indicating the City was open to Alternative Solution Proposals for a single stair in apts up to 4 storeys, I applied for a single stair in a 3 storey Part 9 6plex.

I’m told it’s the first one, so it’s a test case. Here’s how it’s going.

#singlestair #sixplex

Not to mention the equity argument… much worse access to jobs by transit outside of Toronto, except NE Scarborough which is also bad.

That may be true, but the biggest gains to reducing GHGs, at the lowest costs, are to be found in areas at the threshold of transit-supportiveness where we can get people out of cars.

All the orange areas below lost population 2016-2021.

Exactly… plus start-up space, shops, studios….

And here’s the table showing relative vulnerability to trade shocks of individual municipalities in the GGH:

It’s a good question. Not only LA but GTA too… from earlier research here’s my map of where jobs with highest vulnerability to trade disruptions are…

Or this one

This is a good one… in my old neighbourhood…

This analysis I did for Neptis Foundation in 2018 seems newly relevant….
mapping the location of GGH jobs in the industries that are most vulnerable to trade shocks (based on the share of industry jobs relying directly on exports).

neptis.org/publications...