Yeah - they’re trying to save floor space but it’s a bit scary

Near the museum… still under construction

Carved in ‘67

Kiddo says this is the origin of the meme

Skins

Bad bike details:
We’re staying in a newer condo building in downtown Vic.

They have decent bike room but the access to it is convoluted and the wall mounted racks that stick out into the circulation aisle nearly cost the kiddo an eye (fortunately just a banged up nose and head)

See you soon Victoria

The "Four/Five"
Single Stair Accessible Flats

“Four/Five” accessible flats - with bay window Juliette balconies.

We’ve been exploring a few different ways to bring some familiar elements to a new building type (while remaining honest about what is needed in the form and envelope of a contemporary low carbon building).

1/8” to spare

New little mid century bookshelf for the office

good riddance

New beams for old joists. Foundation for the infill at the rear.

The hole is following me. Starting to feel personal.

No idea, it’s usually pretty reliably within the block or two

When you’re in the @evocarshare.bsky.social Bermuda Triangle

Scary moment last night as we were waiting at the light at main and terminal.

This is the temp modular housing.

Called the VFD but watched as residents with extinguishers fought the blaze. Not sure what the outcome was…

Working through some prelim concepts for a new net zero home on a skinny 25' lot in East Van.

* to replace a van special that is falling over and sinking into the swamp

Unlock Housing: 'Mansions' vs 'Missing Middle' #shorts YouTube video by Lanefab

'Mansions' vs ' Missing Middle'
youtube.com/shorts/QqNzS...

Cheap and fast.
Just need to get the legacy politics out of the way.

We need more Clean Data

How Paris redesigned itself to be a city of bikes—not cars Over the last 12 years, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo fundamentally reshaped the City of Lights. As she leaves office, this is the story of how she reclaimed the city’s public spaces from cars, covered the...

Thrilled to chat with Adele Peters for FastCompany about the transformation of Paris in terms of bike lanes and school streets under Hidalgo's leadership.

www.fastcompany.com/91509506/how...

yes, I agree with this assessment, and wonder who was pulling strings with the mayor

Yeah if you want to have an ALR or urban growth boundary then you can't also put tight limits on growth inside the boundary without screwing up the whole system.

Yes - The Zoning Bylaw and the Subdivision Bylaw have been the two main tools of exclusionary zoning

- tools that have deprived the city of a half century worth of affordable housing and billions in tax revenue

It’s different in some key (and weird) ways, with power devolved from the king down through provinces to cities.

I agree though I don’t know enough of the relative logistics of that vs working within the prop tax framework.

Land values at 90x improvement value is pretty ridiculous.

That was my takeaway from the ABC budget debate: most owners who spoke said they’d pay a bit more to keep services.

Assessment for a house at 2.9m

~$3m is a fairly typical 50x122 west side lot. This older bungalow would come in just under.

Im wondering if this would drive demand for stratified / subdivided lane houses, or plexification or other ways to have more units at lower total prices.

I’m curious about how the details work - but in principle @seanorr.bsky.social is right to look at a progressive property tax, and $3m is a good threshold that excludes most smaller single family, condo and plex units.

I think the lower brackets could absorb 3 to 5% as well to restore services.

Boxy