Proposal: this, but also containing a small explosive device that blows the user's head off.

IMO they should change the province's name to Altarta

Cosign.

Actually - without peeking at a map, can't be sure the developer didn't deliberately provide a setback. Seems weird, esp with such a shallow site, but there may have been some oddball constraints driving the choice.

Mysteries of the ROW department. But a deep sidewalk's actually pretty nice if we'd take care of it - imagine how much Bank St through the Glebe would benefit, with those big peak pedestrian volumes

This is Bank Street south of the canal, a TM zone. There is no required front yard setback here.

Probably 5 or 6 Miatas, usually at autocross or trackdays, or BMW 3-series (every generation from E30 to F30)

It's incredible that with all that budget and resources, they've made something this boring. There's no "there" there.

Maybe it's the knowledge that aircooled 911s were, at one point in my adult life, available in the sub-$30k range... and their prices have exploded beyond all reason. It galls me almost as badly as housing prices, and I don't want to get priced out of another milestone.

A black Porsche 996 with aftermarket wheels and high-performance tires.

I continue to hunt for the right 996 or 986S, but sometimes I ask myself whether the pursuit is grass-is-greener delusion. Or car connoisseur vanity. Or the terror of soon turning 40?

A blue Subaru BRZ street-parked in fresh snow.

In my worst fits of automotive ADHD, I like to remind myself that I still get a frisson of pride & admiration when I look back at the BRZ after driving it. It lacks for very little: a deficit of charisma compared to other sports cars, maybe. But it's practical and it fuckin' boogies on track.

4 citywide is the lowest maximum, applicable in just the N1 zones. By area, much of the city is N2 and N3, having maxes of 6 and 12 units.

Edmonton has done great work, but "total lock" - ehh, let's see what kind of construction these reforms yield.

Read the new ZBL.

RHETORIC [Easy: Failure] ...

Ottawa erasure.

Modern-day NASA is falling behind in the chunky knits race

Americans look at 20-story apartment buildings in Switzerland with a single stair and say, "That's not safe, you need a second stair." The Swiss look at a double-loaded corridor apartment building with three stairs and say, "That's not safe, you need a fourth stair." www.swiss-arc.ch/de/projekt/n...

If we've identified that street trees are a public good, we've gotta 👏 plant 👏 them 👏 on 👏 public 👏 land

(And then maintain them, too)

Seems to me that AI will mainly transform day-to-day life by flooding the internet with so much slop that it is unusable.

I'd really rather know how the lettuce is doing.

every one of these homes is a 3-bedroom.

served by a single stair.

with daylight on opposite sides.

no windowless bedrooms

no dozens of units on the same floor

more privacy

not looking into homes 10-15' away

and 100% illegal in ever city in the US

our building codes are *trash*

Karl Marx did not spend ten years living in the British Library for the modern Left to negatively polarize itself against the concept of graphs.

Lots of little mid-rise single-stair buildings in my neighborhood, but this trio might be my favorite

Thanks for the tip! Will investigate.

I've previously had no issue getting "regular" insurance on single occasional-use vehicles (including a Miata!) but finding comprehensive coverage for a rebuilt classic has been tougher

Right, but without "regular car"

I've been living sports-car-only for 15 years. Highly recommend, though admittedly all my vehicles have been a touch more practical than an SM

Elective car ownership is such an alien concept that I'm currently struggling to find classic car insurance because it's only for "second vehicles" and there does not seem to be a policy for people who meet their daily transportation needs without a car.

doom cycle meme with i just need to break up the massing

It's central to the logic of Ottawa's new as-of-right high-rise provisions that, once you've got a point tower, it doesn't really matter if it's 25 or 27 or 30 storeys. Hardly anyone can tell the difference without counting balconies.