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We need to remember 3 things before opposing tax ⬆️:
1. People who own homes in Toronto would pay an extra $30/month.
2. Toronto would have the 5th lowest tax rate in Ontario, less than half of Kingston or London.
3. Chow won an election with mandate to fix City’s problems.
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Olivia Chow talking about
#MissingMiddle
on
@CP24
today:
“I want to unleash the power of the homeowner. Say to them go build it because we need housing in this city”
“Build up to 4 storeys. If you want to have 4 units, you can rent out 3 of them.”
Ford-Chow Housing Alliance?✅
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Why can’t we do this? Build apartments with large balconies that resemble a backyard-style outdoor space.
Apartments in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan Province. They have a mini garden on each balcony!
📸 Credit to DouYin user Qianqianbaby(97650416104)
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Letter from
@SeanFraserMP
to
@MayorOliviaChow
with list of requests in order to approve federal 💰:
- Increase min density near transit
- Increase land with 4 storey as-of-right
- Reduce angular plane requirements
- More multi-tenant near uni/colleges
+ more
Source: CBC
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Mayor
@JoshMorganLDN
of London, Ontario showing 💪 leadership on
#Housing
. He’s using strong mayor powers to turn parking lots into apartments, and without delay!👏
A crisis calls for urgent action. And, we are in a
#HousingCrisis
. We need more leaders at all levels of…
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Super cool! Brand new walk-up
#sixplex
in Hamilton. Why can’t these be “as-of-right”?
Pictures:
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✅ We all love visiting European cities that are designed for
#PeopleNotCars
.
❌ But back home we are obsessed with ensuring there are enough parking spots & traffic impact studies for our car-obsessed post-war development pattern. 🤦🏻♂️
#DesignCitiesForPeopleNotCars
When it comes to achieving better cities for people, a BIG challenge is how little space we have for public life, given the space we’ve surrendered to cars. Barcelona’s “superblocks” show what we can fit if we took some space back. Video by
@modacitylife
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Finally mainstream media is talking about something housing advocates and urbanists have raised for years!
🚨 Parking Minimums = Bad
There are 71-97 million parking spots in Canada for 23 million cars. While 4 parking spots = 1 bedroom apartment.
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Watch video! One of the first condo
#Fourplexes
in Toronto has units for sale right now!
Very interested in price discovery for each unit through this process. If it works well, you could see tons of other small developers start building fourplex condo units for sale.
These…
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Additionally, the “rip the bandaid” approach to building your 🚴♂️ infrastructure is not only good for city building, it also minimizes political pain for Councils.
We know bike lanes can be controversial in many communities. That’s why you see many Cycling Master Plans sit on…
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Anyone do a shadow impact study before approving this? 🤔
The Empire State Building from New Jersey after it was first completed in the 1930s
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1/8 🧵
#Fourplexes
on large lots in
#Mississauga
The sad reality is that Council may get opposition from residents who live in affluent neighbourhoods (and have large lots).
However, you can fit beautifully designed
#Fourplexes
that look just like townhouses on wider lots…
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Minister
@SeanFraserMP
is blunt about about what it takes to get
#HousingAcceleratorFund
approval.
“Cities should know that if you're not willing to be amongst the most ambitious cities in the country when it comes to zoning reform permitting processes, you won't be successful."…
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Who says people won’t use transit if you reduce price?
P.S. Metrolinx and TTC made fares free on New Year’s Eve.
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Kudos to Green Party Leader
@MikeSchreiner
for his proposed legislation that would:
✅ Allow 4 units & 4 storeys on all residential lots
✅ Allow 6-11 storey buildings on all major streets
Read Bill 156:
Stakeholders of all stripes are joining the call to legalize gentle density and missing middle housing in Ontario.
Thank you to
@MoreNeighbours
,
@timhudak
,
@DanTisch
and Dillon Fraser of
@_GDAR_
for getting behind the movement to legalize housing.
#onpoli
#legalizeit
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Per Minister
@SeanFraserMP
’s housing plan, Canada’s development approvals are 3x slower than the U.S. And, we rank 37th out of 38 OECD countries in terms of timelines.
We need broad based up-zoning with more “as-of-right” permissions to help speed up the process. We can and must…
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Welcome to Professor
@SeanFraserMP
’s masters level class on political communications on
#Housing
!
DAY 1: Ending Exclusionary Zoning 👇
📢 🏠 👨🎓
A few days ago I used the phrase “legalize housing” and I saw that people had questions.
The reality is, many cities and neighbourhoods don��t allow you to build the kinds of homes that are going to help solve the housing crisis.
We’re working with cities to change that.
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Minister
@SeanFraserMP
wrote a letter to Mayor of
#London
saying City needs to allow 4 units as-of-right on each lot if they want their Housing Accelerator Fund application approved.
What’s the federal role in 🏠? Power of the federal wallet is one tool!
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This apartment building looks beautiful to me on a single family street!👇
Apartment buildings don't ruin neighborhoods.
They enhance them.
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Tonight,
#Kitchener
Council unanimously supported Mayor
@berryonline
’s motion directing staff to prepare a zoning by-law to allow 4 units as-of-right across the city!
What a compassionate Council discussion! Talked about housing for seniors, youth, lower income families, etc.
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This is what we need to do if we are serious about gentle density! 👇
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#Mississauga
votes to legalize fourplexes with an 8-2-2 vote (2 abstained). Full official plan and zoning by-law enacted!
Thank you
@BonnieCrombie
for your leadership in getting this done. 👏
Full motion:
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Minister
@SeanFraserMP
at today’s
@Empire_Club
event: “the Housing Accelerator Fund has led to the largest upzoning effort in the history of this country”.
He has led a nationwide effort to end single family zoning and reimagine our neighbourhoods! 🏠 x 4
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I don’t know who Taylor Swift is but she’s right about density!
Not only are dense places better for the environment, cost taxpayers less, but also more fun!
I suspect this will have an astronomically bigger impact on how people positively perceive cities and “density done well” than anything a city planner like me will ever say. Thanks
@taylorswift13
.
#DensityDoneWell
#TaylorSwift
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Whoever these two urbanists are, they are right! 👇
“So then I said, ‘You’re not stuck in traffic… you ARE traffic!”
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We should have 50+ storeys at all GO stations that have two-way all-day service. Each stop should become a destination for one thing or another (shopping, entertainment, recreation, etc.) in addition to the residential component. Oh yea, no parking minimums at these locations!
I believe that this is the fifth tower proposed at over 50 storeys in Midtown Oakville, near Oakville GO Station.
Let’s keep this up, and turn every MTSA into a mini-city, complete with amenities to ensure car-free living.
(349 Davis Road, 58 storeys, residential + office)
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Starting to see “for sale” units within
#Fourplexes
!! Here is one with units ranging from $499,900 to $1,599,900 in Toronto.
This is how we increase housing options & allow homeownership at different price points on the same street. 🏠x4
#GentleDensity
#HomeOwnership
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Who says you can’t do 6 storey buildings on a narrow lot?
If I was the Province, I would make these “as-of-right” on all major streets across Ontario!
We need a mid-rise revolution to fill the gaps in our housing supply. 🏗️ 🏠
A handsome new 6-story building with 11 homes on a narrow lot.
This should be legal in every city in America by right!
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Major announcement by
@JustinTrudeau
on housing + transit funding today:
➡️ Provinces need to mandate 4 units by right, freeze DCs for 3 years, etc. to get housing infra $$$
➡️ Municipalities need to remove parking mins, build high density within 800m, etc. to get transit $$
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Imagine every mall in the Greater Toronto Area redeveloped into a mixed use walkable community designed to a human scale with retail, patios, public space, parkette, housing, etc. all centred around a transit node! 😍
#Toronto
’s Jane and Finch Mall to be redeveloped into a new master-planned mixed-use community.
#development
#retail
#realestate
#housing
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#Mississauga
Councillor
@AlvinTedjo
announces that he will run for Mayor in the upcoming by-election.
Housing seems like a key priority for him. “We need more housing choices. We need purpose-built rentals and market housing. We need affordable and supportive housing.“ 🏗️ 🏠
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😍Excited to see an “arms race” on pro-housing policy in Ontario! 🏗️ 🏠
➡️ First, it was the
#GreenParty
’s Bill 156.
➡️ Then, the
#Liberals
commit to even stronger measures with today’s announcement. 👇
➡️ Hoping the
#PCs
take it even further with their next bill!
Housing…
Whoa!
@ShamjiAdil
and
@BonnieCrombie
have put out a release endorsing bold but common sense housing reforms at the provincial level!
Fantastic to see
@OntLiberal
championing growth policies to end the housing crisis and improve the LTB!
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This is really interesting. Minister
@SeanFraserMP
& CMHC just released a “municipal roadmap” with Top 10 best practices in order to maximize chances of receiving federal 💰. 👇
We want cities to increase their ambition on housing, and through federal funding we are incentivizing that change.
We’re looking for the best of the best. We’ve shared our list of top 10 practices cities can use to strengthen their applications.
Info:
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📢 Ontario cities. Please do this. 👇
The sky didn't fall, in fact, it got brighter, just like the community.
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You are hurting my brain with this point! 😂
My mind is trained to say “MORE PARKING = BAD”. But I kind of understand your point. Less people will chose to use the GO if there is no where to park their car.
What do others think?
Parking garages at suburban regional rail stations are okay and are needed to encourage suburbanites to take the train.
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Looks like the Ontario Liberals are introducing a Bill to ensure more
#Fourplexes
can be feasible across ON.
Hope all parties embrace these ideas!
✅ 4 units province-wide
✅ 4 storeys province-wide
✅ No additional parking
✅ No floor-to-area ratio
✅ No minimum lot size
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In an era of hyper partisanship (which I’ve never been a fan of), here is Premier
@fordnation
talking about hanging out with former Ontario Liberal leader
@StevenDelDuca
at his house…
…and how they “smash a dozen cannolis back real quick” while sitting in his solarium. 😀
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Good housing policy or undemocratic?
@CityofBurnaby
in B.C. will no longer hold public hearings for residential developments going through a
#zoning
change if project is consistent with their
#OfficialPlan
.
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I know this is an unpopular take but increasing the capital gains inclusion rate from 50% to 66% will hurt investment in housing at a time when we need it the most.
Individual ‘mom & pop’ investors fuel pre-sales that help finance new condo projects. Additionally, with 3-4…
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At
#Mississauga
City Council this week, I tackled a series of myths around
#Fourplexes
.
This clip addresses the notion that
#Fourplexes
will “ruin the character” of our neighbourhoods. Happy to share slides if they can help others advocate in their municipalities.
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"Larger than life", "whip smart", "brilliant" are just some of the terms used today to describe John Duffy.
I was fortunate to spend the last 5 years working every day with a legend in Canadian public affairs.
I lost a mentor and my boss
@StrategyCorp
. Will miss you, John!
Last night we were devastated to learn of the passing of John Duffy, who co-founded
@StrategyCorp
in 1995.
John’s mind was a whirlwind of public policy passion. He was dedicated to progressive causes. 1/3
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A mayoral candidate in
#Mississauga
reading
@StrongTowns
and talking about how we need to 🏗️ more 🏠 to keep taxes low! 😍
#Alvin4Mayor
#BuildHomes
The
#HousingCrisis
costs everyone🏡
#Mississauga
has had the same population for the last 10 years, BUT we now have big city infrastructure with big city costs🚗🚉
This only gets worse as more young families are priced out🚚
Fewer neighbours mean higher taxes📈
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Someone needs to come up with a creative financing solution for the construction costs. One that gets repaid at refinance post construction at new appraised value. Put that in a box and have small-scale developers offer it as package to homeowners.
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This has to stop. Enough. Is. Enough!
Local resident groups appealed Council’s decision to approve a supportive housing project to the Tribunal. The appeal was dismissed as meritless. Now residents are filing for a review of the ruling.
Over 2.5 years already lost while…
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Those who follow Toronto housing would know about 175 Cummer Ave - a 59 unit modular supportive housing proposal fought by residents’ association.
Local councillor even got elected by opposing project. And, we wonder why we have a housing crisis.
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Primary reason for our
#HousingCrisis
shown in one poll! 👇
Most people say there is the “right amount” of housing in their community but “not enough” in the Province (meaning outside their community).
Local councillors are in a no-win situation trying to manage this dynamic.
Ontario - "There is (X) housing being built in..."
My Community:
Right amount: 57%
Too much: 17%
Not Enough: 16%
The Province:
Not enough: 55%
Right amount: 23%
Too much: 8%
Liaison Strategies / March 9, 2024 / n=1283 / MOE 2.7% / IVR
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The State of Minnesota is debating this bill to
#BanParkingMinimums
across the entire state.
Let’s at least start by removing 🅿️ minimums within all Major Transit Station Areas (MTSAs) in
#Ontario
.
There is no policy logic to keep parking minimums near transit. Removing them…
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Look who I ran into at tonight Empire Club event on
#SolvingTheHousingCrunch
!
Twitter housing legend & one of the leading pro-housing voices in Ontario, Mayor
@CamGuthrie
of Guelph! 🏠 🏗️
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Somewhat encouraged that
#Mississauga
reduced parking minimums to 0.5 on part of the Hurontario LRT corridor.
But very
#disappointed
that there was NO reduction for area best served by transit (south of QEW including near the intersection of two higher order transit lines -…
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CMHC just released its annual
#RentalMarket
survey. Canada’s vacancy rate is now at a historic low of 1.5%.
In
#Toronto
: Purpose-built rental vacancy is 1.5%. Condominium rental vacancy is 0.7%.
Key take away: We must build a LOT more rental! 🏗️ 🏠
Full report:…
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Go
@AndreaHorwath
!! 👏
She’s calling out
#Hamilton
Council for rejecting a proposal to build 67
#AffordableUnits
on a city parking lot. Proposal was endorsed by planning staff.
Madam Mayor, you have a certain special power. A 💪 one! 😉
#AffordableHousing
#SurplusCityLand
My statement on Committee’s decision to reject a staff recommendation related to the utilization of city property to build affordable housing.
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Yes! We should legalize retail/commercial on all corner lots in residential areas. Could be a bakery, daycare, barbershop, coffee shop - possibilities are endless! ☕️ 🍰 💈
Finally, the municipal section. I really like the recommendation of small-scale retail spaces in residential areas.
You shouldn't need to hop in your car to get a coffee and a muffin.
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“We know that designing cities around the car has failed”.
@BrentToderian
back in 2012.
Yet many Councillors still struggle to make necessary decisions to reduce reliance on the car even though it results in better health & environmental outcomes + keeps taxes lower. 🚶♂️🚴🚆
More fun random archives (you'll see plenty
@Streetfilms
nuggets over the next week)
Here is
@BrentToderian
@TODUrbanWORKS
discussing the "power of nearness" in 2012 at
@VelocitySeries
in
#Vancouver
answering a question from
@eeepee
for
@Streetfilms
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Packed house
@AlvinTedjo
’s campaign office opening!
Three sitting councillors
@JoeHorneck
,
@Reid4Ward9
,
@Sue_Ward10
& the Mayor of Guelph
@CamGuthrie
on deck to endorse
#Alvin4Mayor
!
#MississaugaMayoralElection
#June10
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Had to take the compulsory selfie with the man himself,
@BrentToderian
!
What I like about him is that he’s blunt. Doesn’t sugar coat his advice to cities.
Cities are facing multiple crises. Housing crisis. Climate crisis. Public health crisis. Inequity crisis. Infrastructure…
Hundreds of people have packed the Living Arts Centre in
#Mississauga
to hear urbanist
@BrentToderian
talk about how we can design better cities.
#CityBuilding
#PeopleNotCars
#DensityMeansLowerTaxes
#HumanScaleDesign
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I’m so proud of my wife,
@NokhaDakroub
! She worked tirelessly for 5 months knocking on 15,000 doors in Ward 9. Although we came 241 votes short, I could not be more proud of what she accomplished. I love you, Nokha!
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Ontario just launched a consultation on modular housing. 🏠
We don’t have enough skilled trades to keep building homes the old way and hit our targets. Getting this right is essential to reducing labour input + speeding up construction of homes!
Survey:
Do you have expertise or opinions about modular housing? The Government of Ontario has begun a 30-day consultation to learn how we can encourage broader adoption of modular homes and other innovative housing technologies that increase housing supply. [1/2]
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🙋🏻♂️ What do people think? 6-storey box and then a couple of stepbacks as you go up to 11 storeys.
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@DavidColetto
@abacusdataca
The CPC’s 13 pt lead among public sector workers is surprisingly.
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How times have changed! ⏰
A
#Mississauga
YIMBY group is taking the fight to a “Concerned Citizens” coalition who hired a lawyer to stop a
#SupportiveHousing
project on Lakeshore Rd.
NIMBY Letter:
YIMBY Letter: 👇
When they endanger the safety and security of vulnerable people while calling themselves 'concerned citizens' we can not ignore that. Read our (first) official statement on this below
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**Not an endorsement of any party**
We need more people running for public office who are passionate about tackling the
#HousingCrisis
.
@SabrinaMaddeaux
is right when she says, “generational wealth should NOT be the only way grandparents can live near their grandkids.” 👨👩👦 🏠
📣 Announcement Time 📣
I’m running to be the next federal Conservative candidate and MP for Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill.
Help me be your voice in Ottawa:
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Very happy to see
#Mississauga
Councillor
@AlvinTedjo
table a motion to allow 4 units on every residential lot! 🏠 🏠 🏠 🏠
Special mention to Councillor
@carolynhparrish
for seconding the motion! Let’s see if this passes at the October 4th meeting.
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Municipal leaders across southern Ontario are advancing
#Fourplexes
as-of-right!
Motions next week by Mayor
@CamGuthrie
of Guelph & Mayor
@berryonline
of Kitchener. Cities of London, Hamilton, Vaughan, Toronto have already passed motions or enacted bylaws.
Let’s do this! 🏠x4
Kitchener and Guelph to consider allowing fourplexes on residential lots to address housing crisis. Click on the image below to read more ↓
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For those who seek to protect existing low density neighbourhoods in our cities…
Here is the former Chief Planner of Vancouver & world-renowned urbanist
@BrentToderian
’s take on it! 👇
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This is turning into an intriguing issue for intergovernmental affairs nerds like me. 🤓
LPC looking to pick a fight to turn the news cycle & try to recoup millennial + Gen Z votes from the CPC.
Ontario saying “no” to demands and taking the municipalities know best position.
NEW: Premier Doug Ford says he’s not going to require municipalities to adopt four units as-of-right, despite the new $5B federal fund that would offer provinces new cash for ushering in the policy province-wide.
#onpoli
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📢 Free political advice for the federal government on Milton GO 🚂:
Just show up in
#Mississauga
to announce that you are matching Minister
@PrabSarkaria
’s 💰to deliver two-way all-day GO on Milton Line. Claim the clean win! 🎉
This narrative that “we have been here for years…
Under the leadership of
@Fordnation
, our government has a plan to deliver faster, two-way, all day GO service on the Milton corridor. We urge the federal government to be a full funding partner on this mission.
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4 UNITS & 4 STOREYS “as-of-right” in
#CityofWaterloo
!
Cllr
@RoyceBodaly
’s motion unanimously passed at yesterday’s meeting. Directed to staff bring back a zoning bylaw in Q1 2024.
Unless I’m mistaken, Waterloo might be the first in Ontario to move on 4 storeys “as-of-right”.
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2/8 These are real examples of fourplexes in Calgary. You can look at details and pics of interiors on the link with each picture.
People need to understand that lot economics will dictate the quality of fourplexes in each neighbourhood…
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Hundreds of people have packed the Living Arts Centre in
#Mississauga
to hear urbanist
@BrentToderian
talk about how we can design better cities.
#CityBuilding
#PeopleNotCars
#DensityMeansLowerTaxes
#HumanScaleDesign
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Significant changes just announced by Minister
@PaulCalandra
as part of the new “Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act”.
🚨
#ParkingMinimums
will be eliminated in PMTSAs & MTSAs. This means:
✅ More housing
✅ Lower property taxes
✅ Better environmental outcomes
✅ Increased…
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This is the type of conversation we should be having to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of our cities. 👇
Here’s the BIG thing that we’re not talking about NEARLY enough. We often ask the questions “Should growth pay for itself” and “Does growth pay for itself?” The better, more important question has always been WHAT KIND OF GROWTH PAYS FOR ITSELF, and what kind of growth doesn’t?
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Another municipality. Another unanimous vote to allow
#Fourplexes
!
Congratulations to
@mayor_collier
and
#Ajax
council!! 👏 🏠x4
#AjaxCouncil
unanimously approved a motion to allow 4-units as of right. We are using all the tools at our disposal to build housing in Ajax! I welcome
@SeanFraserMP
and
@markhollandlib
to join me in a conversation on how we can accomplish our mutual goals. 1/2
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7/8 On lots that are less wide, fourplexes can look like semi-detached homes.
In fact, lot severing is already occurring and homes that look just like this fourplex are showing up all across southern Mississauga in Councillor
@DaskoWard1
’s Ward.
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🔥TAKE: Instead of banning them, bring back the
#ForeignBuyers
! 🙏
We need to boost pre-construction sales. Many condo projects aren’t moving forward because they can’t hit pre-sale targets required to secure construction financing. Developments have stalled.
The cost of…
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Great chatting with two passionate housing champions MPPs
@BramptonGraham
&
@Rae_Matt
at tonight’s
@FRPOFACTS
reception!
#LetsBuildMoreRentalHousing
🏗️ 🏠
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Super cool! Would love to see these pop up across the Greater Toronto Area. Especially in my home city of
#Mississauga
!
Looks like we can easily fit this on two single family lots.
🚀12 Townhomes
🚀4 Affordable Suites
🚀1 Coffee Shop
Walkable urbanism at it's finest.
West Hillhurst, Calgary.
#retwit
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5/8 Given these will be small-scale redevelopments, they won’t be “cookie cutter” - making your neighbourhood even more beautiful adding character and charm to each street…
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Some people get excited about the Madonna concert. 🎵
I get excited about things like attending tonight’s talk by world renowned urbanist
@BrentToderian
! He’ll share his insights on how to build vibrant cities!
Still a few tickets left:
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The B.C. Housing Minister is on 🔥 about building 🏠!
Full policy manual here:
Today, we released Policy Manuals and Regulations to support the implementation of our Transit-Oriented Development and Small-Scale Multi-Unit legislation.
The housing market is not working, and these changes are needed to address the crisis.
👉🏾
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3/8 A fourplex on a $2.5 million lot will have to be a higher end product than a fourplex on a $700k lot for it to be financially feasible to build.
Councillors and their residents need to understand that there is nothing to fear about fourplexes…
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🧵(1/4) Great initiative by Councillor
@DipikaDamerla
to remove
#ParkingMinimums
along transit corridors!👏
✅ Allows more housing to be built
✅ Increases demand for local transit
✅ Encourages complete communities
✅ Minimizes traffic increase
✅ Reduces tax increases
Tomorrow Council will get an opportunity to discuss my motion to remove parking minimums along transit corridors in Mississauga (think Hurontario LRT route). Here's a bit more on the issue👇
Parking Minimums - do we really need them? via
@YouTube
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CPC leads by 10 pts among Millennials. Liberals won that cohort by 7 pts in 2021. Wonder what caused the 17 point swing. 🏠??
Using our last two national
#cdnpoli
surveys, I broke down federal vote by generation.
✅Conservatives ahead across all generations.
✅Liberals stronger among Boomers
✅CPC leads by 10 among Millennials.
✅BQ doing poorly among younger gens
✅NDP struggles with older gens…
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"Just like we need more skilled trades to build homes, we need more
#planners
to approve projects to get to a stage where we can more build homes."
Tackling the shortage of planners is key to our housing goals! My column in
@OntarioPlanners
’ magazine. 👇
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4/8 People in Lorne Park and Mineola will see higher end redevelopments - because only those will work. If anything, it will create opportunities to redevelop old rundown bungalows to nice custom designed fourplexes there…
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At this evening’s
@Empire_Club
discussion entitled “Solving the Housing Crunch”.
Great panel with
@MikePMoffatt
,
@timhudak
,
@EneUnderwood
&
@jen_keesmaat
!
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This is great. But
@citymississauga
can you pls remove
#ParkingMinimums
from our downtown? 😃
70,000 more people in downtown Mississauga with cars will choke the city. You have an LRT with the Downtown Loop now. Get rid of parking minimums. In fact impose a
#ParkMaximum
.
Not…
Mississauga’s population in the downtown core is expected to double in 20 years by up to 70,000 people, creating 10,000+ new jobs. Reinstating the 2km Downtown Loop as part of the
@HMcCallionLine
will:
✔️Add more service by increasing the frequency of trains
✔️Reduce congestion…
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8/8 Like I said, all of these images are fourplexes from Calgary. You can look up details in the link with each picture.
Bottom line: lot/land economics will ensure the quality of product remains reasonable for the neighbourhood. No need to fear!
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Meanwhile in
#Edmonton
- zoning changes to allow 8 units per lot.
👉
And yes, they completely removed parking minimums back in 2020.
👉
Some other cities 🤷🏻♂️
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.
@MayorOliviaChow
signs $471 million HAF agreement with PM
@JustinTrudeau
. A few weeks ago she secured a “New Deal” with Premier
@fordnation
. 👏
She’s putting on a clinic on intergovernmental affairs, only 6 months into the job!💰 🏗️ 🏠
News Release:
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Very interesting 🧵 by globally renowned urbanist
@BrentToderian
on why we shouldn’t aim to replace internal combustion engine cars with EVs on 1:1 basis.
Focus on reducing number of cars / car trips to best tackle climate change. By building walkable mixed use communities.
THREAD: I’m going to try this thread to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, to those who frequently ask me, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share if you think it helps. 🧵
#EVS
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6/8 The design options are endless on larger and wider lots. Side-by-side units in a fourplex can have various looks and feels. Options are left to the imagination…
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The
#Politics
of
#Housing
has turned from “NIMBY” to “YIMBY”. 😍
Those who don’t see it, won’t be around politics for much longer. In 2024, the political left, the centre & the right all agree on the urgency to build more housing! 🏗️🏠
Getting housing back on track is my top priority. Toronto has exceeded our provincial housing targets by 51%.
But we need to build more. Today's investment from
@fordnation
and the province will help create more housing and infrastructure so we can continue to meet our targets.
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She did it! Mayor
@AndreaHorwath
is using
#StrongMayor
powers to get affordable housing built on two surface parking lots. Council would need 2/3rd + majority to stop her.
#ThisIsLeadership
Today I submitted a Notice of Intent to Veto a Bylaw pertaining to the two properties at 5 and 13 Lake Ave S.
See my full statement here:
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@JonathanGiggs
They tried to give each unit its own fenced backyard space. I would rather prefer a communal backyard green space that people share. Nothing wrong with that.
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We need to reduce labour input in housing construction. There is no way around it to meet our targets. More modular/prefab/factory built components is the ONLY way.
Hoping the Feds/Province start subsidizing mass production facilities like they do for automotive plants. 🙏
What do we think twitter? Is 2024 the year modular actually breaks through?
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If I had a magic wand, I would allow this “as-of-right” on every lot.
This is how you do
#GentleDensity
& create more housing opportunities for people of all incomes in the same neighbourhood.
Amazing design by
@craigitect
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