It's possible to see what a walkable neighbourhood that maintains the existing 'character' really looks like. When it comes to making our imagination real, we've gotten some help from AI. ✨

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✨New Post✨ Choosing a path for Orléans. 🏘️ Freeze housing and local shops, and we watch taxes climb while services vanish. Or, allow more homes + mixed-use spaces to stabilize our bills and fund the neighborhood we want. It’s decline vs. a village that pays for itself. 📉📈 #SuburbanVillage #Orleans

Food, Hardware, and Medical – Taking the Village Test – Part 2 Village Test Methodology +Village Test Methodology Note: This will be repetitive if I do an article for each type of amenity, so we're grouping. Today, we're covering Gas and Corner/Convenience Stores, Restaurants and Grocery Stores, Pharmacies and Medical/Dental offices, plus Hardware Stores. In this grouping of seemingly unrelated services and amenities, you'll find some groupings. Basically all of these categories have regular needs and are less likely to be 'luxuries'.

Local shops like this are an easy way to start making our suburbs feel more like a real village where you can actually get things done on foot. We could really use more of them around here. #ottawa #urbanism #SuburbanVillage

Is this the future of your block? We're visualizing a new kind of "local."

What’s the one local business you wish was within walking distance of your house? 🚶‍♂️🍕🍦
#Ottawa #WalkToWork #LocalBusinesses #SuburbanVillage