Oh, it's in the replies to the original post I see. I should have known.

Is Ontario's renewable energy turnaround too little, too late? | #onpoli YouTube video by TVO Today

I mean, you're not that for off: youtu.be/UocUd4I28ps?...

What is Hostile Vehicle Mitigation? HVM is a set of measures – like bollards, barriers or road design, used to stop or slow down vehicles to protect people, buildings or public space from intentional or accidental vehicle attacks.

Reviewing the City-provided info before doing the Yonge TOmorrow survey and learning the phrase "accidental vehicle attacks." How's your day going? www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...

Submitting my own clue and guessing "one more than is there already."

Obviously we should buy the one that Peter Mansbridge keeps trying to sell me in online ads. Isn't that how all countries make national defense procurement decisions?

Land use policy is climate policy.

Wow. Didn't even make a bedroom cap? Good luck. I assume the end is near for Edmonton

If you're going to claim a love of walkable neighbourhoods, maybe walk around the neighbourhoods that you're planning to disparage so that you're not contributing to the misinformation about Toronto neighbourhoods that are actually growing and making room for newcomers.

A line of about a dozen people for the opening of Cong Cafe on Yonge St.

Catching up on Tuesday's Planning and Housing Committee and someone from the Oakwood Vaughan Community Organization said that they feared becoming "soulless" like Yonge and Eglinton and losing storefronts. In reality, people are lining up down the block for new businesses opening at Y&E.

Shadow policies effectively force apartment dwellers further from parks. But updates to the tree bylaw are almost entirely about trees on private property anyway. And all the usual RAs who claim to want to preserve trees oppose changes that would allow more flexibility in building footprint/height.

The actual reason to be upset about tree equity is that the city totally ignores its supposed goal when revising its land use policies and tree bylaws. We made an EHON program to let more people live near trees and then almost immediately launched a "Growing Space for Trees" item that limits that.

Anyway, let's start pedestrianizing some things!

This is one reason that I try not to be too down about pilot projects, although I wish we could get better and faster about taking the evidence, generalizing and expanding.

Two boxes with arrows looping between. The first box says "These shoebox condos are gross. Stop building them. We need more family-sized units!" And arrow labelled "Oppose this building" points to a second box, which reads "These are luxury condos. Stop building them. We need starter homes." The arrow pointing back to the first box also says "Oppose this building".

Reminder that this “glut” of small units was approved under a planning process that took ~2.5 years to complete. Almost like that process is designed to allay the concerns of people who already own homes and has zero to do with the new homes themselves. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Bike lanes and ravine paths are also acceptable.

It's the journey, not the destination. ie. Build more trains.

I thought Carney was a builder of infrastructure? With $2.4 billion, we could quickly get to incredible levels of intercity bus service.

Medical appointments, family visits, vacations, etc could all be done without a car.

Instead, the people who can afford a car will save ~$5 per tank.

There’s still a federal sales tax on bicycles.

You don't have enough doctors? Well, great news: now you also won't have enough housing!

Almost everything is more accessible and cheaper than 50 years ago. Except housing, which is so much more expensive that it's almost impossible to explain. In 1985, saving a few $ a day would get you a downpayment in 8 years. Now, that would take 30 years and, in that time, prices will rise again!

Bad foreign policy coverage? From the New York Times? Surely not!

Add it to the list!
(I actually think this one is more justifiable than the others but not clear why the province had to get involved at all unless they thought the case at the OLT would succeed? It's even weirder because of the decision history: www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...)

Yeah, I would be curious to see country comparisons. I thought that, in other countries, cost psf goes down for larger units (partly because a lot of cost is kitchen and bathroom) but this isn't so much the case in Ontario, partly related to policies/processes that disadvantage midrise.

This was a big reason for Councillor Myers proposing the sixplex pilot in his ward. In my experience, planners talk about the need for more "family-sized" housing all the time. The gap isn't acknowledging the lack; it's understanding the connection to existing policies.

In Toronto, they typically don't have speakers at the City Council meetings, only at Committee. People can still write in between TEYCC and Council though.

The Church Street Pedestrianization project I’ve been working on the past year is finally public!

I would love if u could sign the petition, do the survey, & speak to council (dm me if u are) (1/3)

Info & Survey: torontocentreprojects.ca/en/projects/...

Petition: win.newmode.net/campaigns/ex...

*Sigh*

I did appreciate the Russian doll with Orbán on the outside and Putin inside at the Tisza party 😀

Image of Bluesky's trending topics: 1. Peter Magyar 2. Woodland Plants 3. Wildflower Hour 4. Biden Administration 5. The Archers

All right. Made it through a bunch of Hungary celebration posts. Now time to catch up on what's going on with woodland plants.

I was being a bit sarcastic so I wouldn't say that Toronto's were successful. They were partly a response to a provincial requirement to speed up approvals. But when the province backed away from penalties for long approvals, municipalities didn't really seem as interested in changing things.