Rylan Graham
@rylangraham.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, School of Planning + Sustainability at the University of Northern British Columbia | sustainable cities, infill, downtowns, 🇨🇦 mid-sized cities | 🌾 born ⛰️ living
If you get a chance - take the Sea Bus across to Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver. Some of the best public space in the country.
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
If you get a chance - take the Sea Bus across to Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver. Some of the best public space in the country.
Check out Gitano - it’s a couple blocks in from Burrard and along Davie. The pork belly tacos are excellent!
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Barra Gitano – Mexican Bar & Restaurant
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May 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Check out Gitano - it’s a couple blocks in from Burrard and along Davie. The pork belly tacos are excellent!
barragitano.ca
barragitano.ca
What was it - a few hundred thousand allocated to incentivize intensification but $6.5M to support a big box store on a whim with seemingly no cost-benefit analysis done?
$6.5M could go a long way on unfunded City projects: The Yards, Taylor Field, Library, Arena, city centre transportation loop….
$6.5M could go a long way on unfunded City projects: The Yards, Taylor Field, Library, Arena, city centre transportation loop….
May 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
What was it - a few hundred thousand allocated to incentivize intensification but $6.5M to support a big box store on a whim with seemingly no cost-benefit analysis done?
$6.5M could go a long way on unfunded City projects: The Yards, Taylor Field, Library, Arena, city centre transportation loop….
$6.5M could go a long way on unfunded City projects: The Yards, Taylor Field, Library, Arena, city centre transportation loop….
This is one of the more absurd things I’ve seen a municipality do in some time.
This Council would be wise to do a deep dive on the @strongtowns.org movement.
This Council would be wise to do a deep dive on the @strongtowns.org movement.
May 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This is one of the more absurd things I’ve seen a municipality do in some time.
This Council would be wise to do a deep dive on the @strongtowns.org movement.
This Council would be wise to do a deep dive on the @strongtowns.org movement.
In Calgary (less than 10 years ago) it used to be that putting in a basement suite required discretionary approval. It’s a waste of Council’s time and they shouldn’t be the authority on these types of decisions.
March 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
In Calgary (less than 10 years ago) it used to be that putting in a basement suite required discretionary approval. It’s a waste of Council’s time and they shouldn’t be the authority on these types of decisions.
Step 8 “Reduce Council approval for housing-related Discretionary Use applications” of Regina’s HAF action plan is an important move. It reduces Council’s ability to play planner. There’s two projects underway in Heritage which I don’t recall having to go to Council.
March 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Step 8 “Reduce Council approval for housing-related Discretionary Use applications” of Regina’s HAF action plan is an important move. It reduces Council’s ability to play planner. There’s two projects underway in Heritage which I don’t recall having to go to Council.
Family-friendly in Regina = opportunities to buy a large home in a new suburban neighbourhood and can drive and park with ease.
February 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Family-friendly in Regina = opportunities to buy a large home in a new suburban neighbourhood and can drive and park with ease.
Back to square one on convincing council that intensification/infill is a good thing actually.
February 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Back to square one on convincing council that intensification/infill is a good thing actually.
Decisions like this are illustrative of how local politicians are culpable in Canada’s housing crisis. Whatever “problem” they think they’re “solving” is negligible compared to the one they are exacerbating.
February 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Decisions like this are illustrative of how local politicians are culpable in Canada’s housing crisis. Whatever “problem” they think they’re “solving” is negligible compared to the one they are exacerbating.
This is 48 units + would be 100ish new residents. Regina hasn’t added 100 new residents to the downtown in a very long time.
The lack of development in the downtown indicates there isn’t a strong market for a denser development. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
The lack of development in the downtown indicates there isn’t a strong market for a denser development. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
February 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This is 48 units + would be 100ish new residents. Regina hasn’t added 100 new residents to the downtown in a very long time.
The lack of development in the downtown indicates there isn’t a strong market for a denser development. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
The lack of development in the downtown indicates there isn’t a strong market for a denser development. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
🤦♂️ I can’t do this all over again…
January 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
🤦♂️ I can’t do this all over again…
Disappointing to see this building come down - but after 10 years of neglect, it’s hardly surprising.
January 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Disappointing to see this building come down - but after 10 years of neglect, it’s hardly surprising.
But the Mayor also has his own bold vision for the City-owned land. The plan for a monorail, previously proposed in the 1960s, has been resurrected....!
December 13, 2024 at 1:42 AM
But the Mayor also has his own bold vision for the City-owned land. The plan for a monorail, previously proposed in the 1960s, has been resurrected....!