Neighbourhoods
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LORINC: Is Toronto one small step closer to finding the missing middle?
At last week’s Toronto Urban Design Awards, Mayor John Tory announced that the City will launch an “ideas competition” meant to generate “new options” for...
By John Lorinc -
EXCLUSIVE: John Tory discusses housing goals and planning reforms
Later this fall, city council will receive the first of what will likely be a long series of planning reports responding to a July motion (MM9.36) moved...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: New residential density plans a small step in right direction
Toronto council today took one small step towards a more rational and potentially more equitable residential land use planning policy with a motion, moved...
By John Lorinc -
Indigenous Innovation
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 Native Women’s...
By Kelly Boutsalis -
Changing the definition of accessibility
André Darmanin is a recovered transit planner and currently writes on planning and policy issues on his blog — Metro Governance...
By André Darmanin -
LORINC: Fiddling while Toronto burns
With Doug Ford’s Tories systematically confiscating Toronto council’s capacity to govern – from political representation to transit planning and even our...
By John Lorinc -
How city hall is keeping needed change out of ‘stable neighbourhoods’
Item: In a development application [download PDF] heard by the Etobicoke-York district committee of adjustment in late February, a builder proposed...
By George Popper -
Guest Op-ed: Building a Waterfront City in Toronto
OP-ED: By City Councillor Joe Cressy Revitalizing our waterfront is the largest and longest-lasting project that we will leave for future generations of...
By Spacing -
What TCHC needs to do next with Regent Park
This is a guest column from Shauna Brail and Alfred Jean-Baptiste Over the relatively short time span of just over a decade, Regent Park has gone from a...
By Shauna Brail -
LORINC: Why Sidewalk Toronto needs to consult with you
In the heady days of Toronto’s mid-1980s real estate boom, large parcels of land along the central waterfront began rapidly changing hands in what...
By John Lorinc -
The wrong answer to a tragic death of a boy walking home from school
On Tuesday, February 27, around 3:30 PM, Duncan Xu, an 11-year old boy, was struck and killed by a motorist in a residential neighbourhood in north...
By Sean Marshall -
LORINC: Toronto’s demographics and the 2018 city election
With next year’s municipal vote now less than a year away, the pre-election positioning has begun in earnest – the most recent example being a pitch by...
By John Lorinc