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Zoning By-Law Renewal: One Year Review – Jacob Dawang Edmonton’s housing policy continued its march forward this past year with the new zoning by-law renewal coming into effect and district plans in force. Let’s take a look at where and what type of home...

A year ago, Edmonton rewrote its zoning from scratch. Among other changes, the base zoning in mature nbhds changed to 8 units, 10.5m.

A year later, what has been the effect? I looked at building permit data to see. More in the 🧵 or in my blog post 👇 #yegcc #yeg

www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2025/ed...

C'MON REFS THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY OFFSIDE

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I can't even imagine the lengths you'd have to go through to build these lovely slab towers, which are plentiful in suburban Toronto, today – years long engagements and reviews for official plan amendments, rezonings, site plan approval, design review, & subdivisions + lot consolidations etc. 😐

- more grade separation
- embrace 'park and ride'
- extension to Abbotsford
- more stations between Waterfront and Port Moody
- new station north of SFU and run the future gondola down to it?

Not expanding the West Coast Express to run a GO Transit-style 30 minute headways feels like such a missed opportunity – but I imagine it's difficult to run more trains when you're operating on CP's mainline.

Funds are being unscrupulously given to cities with the greatest housing need, including those who have historically and presently continue to exacerbate the crisis – those who do nothing but dig in their heels.

The program is described as an incentive but feels predetermined.

It feels like it defeats the point of the program when municipalities can mess around and ignore their agreement – but cities that're proactive, implementing good policy, or just aren't dealing with the housing crisis quite as bad, have put in very strong HAF applications, and haven't seen a cent.

I'll bring u some on god

Sen̓áḵw under construction as of December 2024. The occupancy of Tower 1 is estimated for November 2025.

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do you know if they would charge DCCs on secondary suites / detached ADUs?

Much like inclusionary zoning i feel that they gotta realize that $100k x 0 units is still $0!!

Love to see Jim Pattison coming up with new and innovative solutions to make as much money as possible

can somebody please explain to me like a 5 year old why residential construction costs are out of control and why the provincial or federal government isn't doing anything about it

I think it's imperative the review process is sped up, absolutely. but revisions and back and forth is, to an extent, a reality of the industry

there's an onus on the city to provide certainty as to what will or won't be approved, and the applicant to provide a quality submission from the start

Urban Strategies Updated Toronto Zoning model in response to Bill 109 https://www.urbanstrategies.com/article/responding-to-bill-109/

Bill 109 in Ontario did this, with DC refunds as the penalty

I think munis just pushed most of the process like technical review into the pre-app stage. Once the muni is confident they can do it fast, only then would they take the application & start the clock

It speeds things up, mostly on paper

No problem, I'm hardly an expert

Also, I heard because they decided to slam it straight down Hespeller Rd, the cost of reconstructing and widening the whole street is in that S2 figure

However, Weber was widened for S1 to "make up" (yuck) for the lost lanes but wasn't included in the S1 "cost"

I think Stage 1 had a lot of smart design like partially using existing rail right-of-way (including crossings, like under the 401) whereas Stage 2 has to go over the Grand like 3 times lol

I mean ION also had its fair share of delays and cost overruns – it's not a completely rosy picture.

I believe the ION is also operated by Keolis

there we go

controversial opinion there bud

An Abraham Lincoln Quote except it is edited to say "A house divided against itself is a duplex" - abraham Lincoln, president of the strata corporation

good morning #urbanism

Hughes will play with the Tkachuk brothers and you will like it

how much of an intersection is there between canucks/hockey bluesky and urban planning/housing/municipal politics bluesky. we shall see i suppose

I've seen a couple projects in Kelowna and Penticton where they're subdividing a lot into two narrow lots (or two into three) to do 2-4 units each (with 4 units permitted as of right). Lots of creative infill happening, with many of these not even needing to go to council for approval!

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these two plans have same number of bedrooms - but the double loaded corridor requires 50% more floor area (PAB: 6,500 sf v. DLC: 9,750 sf)

quality of the units is also radically different (100% dual/corner aspect v. 29%)

PAB savings: $300/sf * 3,250 sf = $975k/floor

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nice argument. unfortunately, i have already depicted your numerous use-based zones as the sad and feeble cheems, and my singular, comprehensive 4-unit residential zone with several permitted housing types as buff doge

why did hollywood copy the penticton sign