Neighbourhoods

LORINC: Burning down the (laneway) house

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In recent months, I’ve found myself wondering whether Toronto City Council’s much-touted laneway suites policy, circa 2018, was... Read More

When do we admit that Toronto’s housing crisis is an emergency?

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Should the City of Toronto declare a housing and homelessness emergency? Reports on deaths of homeless people, increasing levels of... Read More

LORINC: Is Toronto one small step closer to finding the missing middle?

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At last week’s Toronto Urban Design Awards, Mayor John Tory announced that the City will launch an “ideas competition” meant to... Read More

EXCLUSIVE: John Tory discusses housing goals and planning reforms

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Later this fall, city council will receive the first of what will likely be a long series of planning reports responding to a July... Read More

LORINC: New residential density plans a small step in right direction

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Toronto council today took one small step towards a more rational and potentially more equitable residential land use planning policy... Read More

Indigenous Innovation

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I am one of an estimated 70,000 Indigenous people living in Toronto. And while there is a variety of social services spaces like the... Read More

Changing the definition of accessibility

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André Darmanin is a recovered transit planner and currently writes on planning and policy issues on his blog — Metro Governance... Read More

LORINC: Fiddling while Toronto burns

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With Doug Ford’s Tories systematically confiscating Toronto council’s capacity to govern – from political representation to transit... Read More

How city hall is keeping needed change out of ‘stable neighbourhoods’

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Item: In a development application [download PDF] heard by the Etobicoke-York district committee of adjustment in late February, a... Read More