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The Toronto condo market just hit a 30-year low. Zero new launches in Q1. Developers, planners, and munis are under real pressure to find the next opportunity and get it right. Ratio.City gives you 1,600+ verified data layers to make that call with confidence.

#urbanplanning #cityplanning #housing #missingmiddle #urbandesign #ottawa | Ratio.City, a division of Esri Canada If you're building in Ottawa right now, you're working under two zoning bylaws at once. On March 25, 2026, the City passed Zoning By-law 2026-50. This is the biggest rewrite of Ottawa's land use fra...

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Ottawa now has two active zoning bylaws. By-law 2026-50 passed in March, but 2008-250 is still in effect until the OLT process wraps up. When they conflict, the stricter one applies.
Both layers are now on Ratio.City.

Can AI extract planning data from zoning by-laws accurately? | Ratio.City — Ratio.City Can AI extract planning data from zoning by-laws accurately? Part 1 explores LLMs, NLP, model architectures, and the risks and limitations of using AI with legal planning text.

People are starting to rely on AI more and more for work.

But zoning by-laws aren’t exactly straightforward.

This looks at why the type of model you use matters if you actually care about accuracy.

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For developers, planners, architects, and municipalities: the risks that hurt most are the ones nobody flagged at the start. Free trial or demo at ratio.city. #urbanplanning #housing #missingmiddle

We just added water mains data across four major Canadian cities to Ratio.City. Stack that with road infrastructure, zoning, heritage, shadows, transit, environmental constraints — and the full picture comes into focus early, when it actually changes decisions.

Most site assessments miss the question that matters most. Not "what's allowed here?" but "what's actually possible?" Zoning tells you one piece. Infrastructure tells you what's real.

Canada's property ecosystem is evolving and the conversation is happening live April 21 in Toronto.

Monika joins the PropTech panel at the Teranet Property Ecosystem Summit.

At The Design Exchange, 1 to 6:30 PM.

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Friday Trivia:
Which city has more protected views?
(# of view cones impacting building heights)
Vancouver or Montreal?

Drop your answer in the comments

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The missing middle is moving. Are the tools keeping up? Cities are reforming zoning. Provinces are pushing density.

A small developer is exploring a multiplex.

Same question comes up every time:
what can actually be built here?
We wrote about it. Plus upcoming events for planners.

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We built Ratio.City to. ISO certified. API-first. Official data.

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More datasets coming in the next few weeks.

The tools aren't the problem. The data is.

In Canada, municipalities are digitizing, private teams are trying to access real site context, and most platforms can't bridge the gap.

#urbanplanning #cityplanning #urbandata #housing #missingmiddle #realestate #architect #urban #affordablehousing

Who Gets to Build the Missing Middle? | Ratio.City — Ratio.City Gentle density is reshaping city growth, but building the missing middle is still complex. Erin Morrow explores the challenges, opportunities, and tools needed to support small-scale housing developme...

Erin, co-founder at Ratio.City, makes the case that policy was never the hard part:
www.ratio.city/blog/who-get...

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Policy unlocked gentle density. Execution is a different problem.

The people now expected to build it are often doing this for the first time, navigating complex processes that were never designed for them.

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Hosting a Virtual Happy Hour on April 14th for planners and city builders. City of Kelowna is joining to share their housing work, then open conversation with peers from across Canada. Free, casual, 2pm ET
Register: events.esri.ca/SM-26APR14-H...

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Friday trivia.
How many Toronto properties are eligible for a laneway suite?
a) 500 b) 5,000 c) 50,000 d) 500,000
Hint: it's mapped on Ratio.City. Answer in replies.

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New infrastructure layers, product improvements, and a real-world use case reshaping how teams approach site analysis. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been shipping updates across the platform while also expanding the type of data our users can work with. Some of these changes are small improvements.

New data + product updates + a great use case from U of T’s School of Cities.

What if long-term care didn’t compete with housing, but could be integrated into it?

A simple idea with big implications.
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No AI. Official sources only. Always verifiable.
Learn more: www.ratio.city/createto-suc...
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You can upload your own data to Ratio.City, structure it, keep it private, and combine it with 1,600+ official data layers. Zoning, setbacks, policy context — everything you need to assess a site before committing.

Did you know our platform includes transportation data layers like bike lanes and cycling networks?

It’s all structured and mapped so you can quickly understand how mobility infrastructure impacts a site.

#urbanplanning #cityplanning #urbandesign #bikelanes #cycling

Based on the images, can you rank these cities from the least to the most high-comfort cycling infrastructure?

Hint: One city clearly leads, while another might surprise you by ranking lower than expected.

Also: new tools are coming. Missing middle housing analysis and infrastructure constraints are next on the roadmap.
More details soon. Stay tuned.

You can layer constraints, explore a site, or filter by very specific criteria. And if something's missing? You can request it. If it exists and can be mapped, we'll make it available.
That's how trust gets built in this kind of work.

Where does Ratio.City's data come from? Real question we get all the time.
Short answer: a dedicated team sourcing from municipal, provincial, and federal sources. Cleaned, structured, and made usable for pre-development analysis. Not AI-generated. Not guesswork.

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View cones. Height limits. Shadow impacts. Planning overlays.

We picked a few addresses across Canadian cities.

What do the locations shown in the images have in common?

Drop your guess below.

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Friday Trivia

One thing our users enjoy most on Ratio.City is access to planning data that is not always easy to find or match against existing policies.

We made a short video showing what we actually do in practice.

Parcel reports, 1,600+ data layers, zoning, 3D massings and shadow analysis + mcuh more. One workspace. Official government sources only.

If your team still does site due diligence across a dozen tabs and PDFs, worth a watch.

The housing demand has shifted. Developers are ready. The bottleneck is municipal data that's too scattered to act on. Here's what changes when a city gets it into one place.

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