GREEN ROOF BYLAW
• Go green on top, or face $100,000 fine, city proposes [ National Post ]
• ‘Green roofs’ get watered down [ Globe & Mail ]
• Toronto of the future: Cows on the roof, cash crops in the
clouds [ National Post ]
OTHER NEWS
• Bylaws still crazy quilt after all these years [ Globe & Mail ]
• Kuitenbrouwer: Nobody goes home happy after Vaughan Council
meeting [ National Post ]
• Peel wants residents to think inside the blue box [ Globe & Mail ]
• Public hearings to discuss west-end rail expansion [ CBC ]
• Greening up the city [ Metro ]
• Rebuffed in Leslieville, big-box developer appeals OMB
decision [ Globe & Mail ]
• As homeless survey begins, advocates call for action [ Toronto Star ]
• Harmonizing zoning bylaws an ‘historic moment’ [ Toronto Sun ]
3 comments
The Post article has a misleading graphic on green roofs. They need not have a deep (and heavy) soil layer if sedum moss or some other thin-soil planting is used. This greatly reduces the structural costs of a green roof, one of the main drivers in increasing the developer’s budget. If the stuff you are placing on the roof is the same weight and depth (whether it is sedum or pavers or gravel) it becomes a much smaller issue of simply the material cost of one covering vs another.
The pollution issue in the rail corridor (it should be electric duh) is getting traction with a public meeting next week. Anybody seen Tony Ruprecht lately?
No one sees Tony Ruprecht unless its election time. On another note seeing Wallymart .. urmm .. “SmartCentres” trying to wangle another fist up the taxpayers collective cakehole comes as no surprise. Can you say “corporate welfare bum”?