Recent content by ADRM

I don't think the City is doing anyone any favours with how they're handling the question of changes that fall somewhere between what the Committee has typically dealt with and a full new re-zoning (though I acknowledge that certain councillors have put Planning Staff in a bind with how they've...

Retail in buildings of this scale in locations like this are almost always a drag on the pro forma, and at this scale, every unit matters. Can't do everything on every site.

This one was done with relatively little

Though I am sympathetic to the "we should do more retrofits because of the embodied carbon implications" argument, this seems to me to be a pretty obvious instance where a teardown and rebuild would make more sense. If it's currently envisioned as a 3-year project, you basically have to assume...

It moved about four blocks west!

We're calling this "midtown" now?

Masonry at grade?! From aA?!

There will be literal pitchforks at the CCM.

Also a very good point! The grandest irony of this project being on Palmerston is that it contains some of the oldest examples of multiplexes in the entire city, which were constructed before anyone still alive, let alone living in the neighbourhood, was even born.

This project perfectly embodies two realities: 1) The CoA is a real problem even as the City bureaucracy generally moves towards a more pro-housing agenda; and: 2) There is no design of a non-single-family home that NIMBYs will accept as being "in keeping with the character" because they always...

...what is less generous, in my humble books, is working behind the scenes to elect politicians (and third party actors) who, when in power, serially underfund and/or purposely undermine the public healthcare system, whilst in public donating money that makes you and your family look good and...

How are they getting 550 units out of this built form? I have to think either the unit count is wrong or they are assuming a different built form than the one that is in that massing model slide.