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Ah, I was phone posting, so not really the best mechanism for writing something really long. Questions around infrastructure for sure need to be addressed, but the Danforth will need to be developed. Regarding capacity, the census tracts touching the Danforth and Pape intersection have had...

By and large, the areas in this part of Toronto have been slowly losing population over the past 50 years. The stores and businesses in this area could really use an influx of new residents. It's a sensible location for density and there's a surprising amount of options for public transit...

Isn't this going to be at the interchange of the Ontario Line and Line 2? I'm unsure why capacity of the current subway line matters that much. There will be far more transit capacity and this seems like a sensible spot to build housing for it. Better to set a reasonable precedent for height...

If you're a worker at risk of encountering discrimination and unfair or illegal employment practices, isn't that useful information about the local legal situation?

Unfortunately, Rufus8's ramblings likely presage the sort of racist and misogynistic attacks that Chow will face if she becomes mayor (and at this point, it seems pretty likely).

Retribution is not justice. And what crime did the parents commit? The children are being charged with mischief. That is a very serious offence. The TTC and the justice system seem to be dealing with the matter swiftly and appropriately.

That is a monstrous and cruel attitude to children in the criminal justice system.

There's 135 parking spaces proposed for 360 units (of which only 99 are for residents), which is an indication that the developers see this site as being transit oriented, as they should. I think it makes sense to further reduce the available car parking on this site, which would also have the...

Well, it would be something close to a Crosstown North, allowing new trips like getting from Don Mills to Humber College. And there's also the massive development of the Downsview lands coming down the pipeline. Enabling more efficient east-west travel would be very valuable to encourage transit...

My gut feeling is that the benefits to making the subway system a network, such as resiliency/redundancy and benefits of scale, are underappreciated and underestimated. But it would be interesting to see some quantitative analysis or modelling done. For sure there are real opportunity costs...

You really hit the nail on the head with how extending the subway eastward westward to Sheppard West would improve really network resiliency (at the 4:00 minute mark) if there was an issue, say, with an electrical fire on the Yonge portion of the line, hypothetically, around Bloor. edit: d'oh!

Nothing seems out of the ordinary for the weights. It's always harder to get younger respondents. More or less, if a subgroup is weighted up or down by more than a factor of two then that begins to raise some concerns. A probability sample with roughly 1000 respondents has a margin of error at...

I suppose that's somewhat positive, but it's ridiculous that it took them this long to make this plan, which is the bare minimum acceptable. The previous plan last summer was a joke.

I'd be genuinely curious if you could explain a little bit about the broader context that you reference. Are you referring to public health rules to limit the pandemic?

What's the equivalent conspiracy theory on the left? This is asymmetric polarization. Failures in Canadian municipal governance are real, but they're not mentioning anything actually happening in Essex. These people have wild misconceptions of governance that reference the World Economic...

I don't think that follows at all. It's not a question of 15-minute cities getting "tarnished by association" with progressive politics. It's not a passive thing. It's about people choosing to construct and promote harmful and baseless conspiracy theories. It certainly links up to a lot of...

Has there been any academic work on how best to respond to these sorts of conspiracy theories? Have municipal organizations and conferences started to discuss the same? Having 400 people at a meeting implies a level of communication and coordination that municipalities will need to respond to. I...

It's not just in the GTA either. The pace of creating new parks has really dropped off over the past generation and little new provincial parks area as been added as a whole across Ontario.

It's good to see the relatively high proportion of three bedroom apartments, and to a lesser extent, two bedrooms. It's also good to see so few auto parking spaces proposed and the relatively high number of bicycle spots, as this is a location well-connected to the future cycling network and...

Aesthetics has a broader meaning than just the surface treatment, but I think we've both laid out our stance on that. To me, it is absolutely an aesthetic and subjective planning decision, for example, that Avenues must transition to Neighbourhoods. Regarding density, absolutely, parts of the...