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The city needs to give that area a 5 year reprieve at least, people and businesses in the area are so mad that any more work will not be...

I am increasingly skeptical of shadowing concerns for most redevelopment, such as 12 v. 8 v. 6 stories on Riley Park. Mostly this is...

I have a soft spot for these walk-up apartments on 34 ave. They have a very cool, retro look with their block glass windows.

Residents not being happy because a publicly available good they have been using us now going to be used by others, just to be clear.

Time to sell stocks. If there's a new proposal for this site, it means the economy's about to crash.

Are you suggesting that Vancouver is somehow an easy place to find affordable housing? I accept that drugs are a big part of the...

Portugal's decline is more nuanced than that. It isn't just a surge of worse drugs but also a general de-funding and placing...

Unfortunately, the Trump administration just put out an executive order banning federal funds for any "Housing First" program - even...

The problem from what I understand with forced rehabilitation is that it does nothing to address the root causes of how and why...

Here's my take on densities, a similar but slightly different analysis. I calculated densities with three changes; I used buffered...

Here's a post I did about this a few years ago, summarizes my attempt to rationalize population, density and the "vibe" of a city. link...

The streetscape is killing this building IMO. Take out that parking lane, rebuild the sidewalk with granite pavers, and add a few trees.

I once had a real estate agent try to tell me that a house west of Richmond Road and 37th street was "in Marda Loop", so anything's...

New name: The Gryphon.

If they could actually solve the tree problem, it would be fine to keep the design minimalist. Here's an image from Toronto's Sugar...