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The RS zoning story they don’t tell you

housing
edmonton
zoning

Ah, here we go again. A deeper look at the RS zone that seems to perenially be in the news. How much housing supply is being delivered, and how fast are mature neighbourhoods really changing?

May 16, 2025

Zoning By-Law Renewal: One Year Review

housing
transit
edmonton

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 homes are being built in this new policy regime.

Jan 4, 2025

Liberty Village SmartTrack Station

housing
transit
toronto

What does the data say about Toronto City Council’s decision to defund the King-Liberty SmartTrack station?

Jan 1, 2025

Op-ed: Rezoning in Garneau will improve housing options for everyone

housing
priority growth areas
edmonton
opinion

I wrote an op-ed in favour of Edmonton’s plan to upzone Garneau.

Oct 19, 2024

District Plans and Policy Need Changes

housing
district planning
transit
edmonton

My take on why and how Edmonton City Council should revise district plans and policy in favour of housing. In short, we need stronger support for mid-rise housing around transit and post-secondary institutions.

Jun 4, 2024

Updated district plan profile for each LRT station

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data
housing
district planning
transit
edmonton

Updated maps and plots with the final draft district plans.

Apr 15, 2024

Transit commute mode share by provincial electoral division

map
data
transit
edmonton

Quick maps of mode share by provincial electoral division in Edmonton.

Mar 9, 2024

Land use and growth around Edmonton’s LRT stations

map
data
housing
district planning
transit
edmonton

A data-driven profile of Edmonton’s LRT station areas using the census, open data and manually-drawn node and corridor boundaries from district planning.

Feb 20, 2024

Avonmore Stop

map
data
housing
district planning
transit
edmonton

As Edmonton’s Urban Planning Committee discusses the interim District Planning report, here’s a closer look at what’s in store for the area around Avonmore Stop on the Valley Line.

Dec 4, 2023

McKernan/Belgravia Station

map
data
housing
district planning
transit
edmonton

Where district planning doesn’t go far enough: a closer look at the area around the least-used Edmonton LRT station.

Nov 20, 2023

BC’s new transit-oriented development policy applied to Toronto

map
data
housing
transit
toronto
BC’s new transit-oriented development policy excited housing advocates across Canada. This legislation sets a new bar for as-of-right density permissions around rapid transit and even “bus exchanges”.
Nov 15, 2023

Migrating my Blog from Hugo to Quarto

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If you visited my old website in 2022, you’ll have noticed that things have changed around here. The biggest change is that I migrated the rendering engine from Hugo to Quarto. Why? Because a lot of my blog posts are computational and Quarto just…
Oct 3, 2023

I Deputed for a Land Value Tax at Edmonton City Council

land value tax
edmonton
Last week, Edmonton’s Urban Planning Committee met to decide what to do about the abundance of surface parking lots in downtown. Surface parking lots are a wasteful land use in central areas, near transit and many people want to see them…
Sep 29, 2023

Edmonton’s Mature Neighbourhoods Need Growth

map
data
schools
edmonton
zoning
housing
In June, I moved across the country to Edmonton with my girlfriend who matched to residency at the Stollery hospital. Since then, I have gotten involved with Grow Together Edmonton, a pro-housing organization that’s starting to get off the ground.
Sep 26, 2023

2022 Toronto Municipal Election Maps - Councillors

map
data
election
toronto
I decided to spend some time mapping out the poll-by-poll results for each of the council races. A lot of the races were not close so the maps just show a blowout. Since there were 25 wards, I set up a dedicated website for interactive maps of all…
Oct 31, 2022

Mapping heritage, race, and income in Toronto

map
heritage
data
race
toronto
tl;dr I created an interactive map map showing heritage properties, and heritage conservation districts overlayed on visible minority composition and neighbourhood median income
Apr 19, 2022

Mapping TDSB open seat accessibility with r5r

schools
data
map
transit
toronto
After reading a tweet about using r5r for transit route analysis, I was inspired to try it out. I have always been interested in transit, and so this was an exciting way to marry my interest in data, transit, and cities.
Apr 10, 2022

Mapping TDSB excess school capacity, population change and zoning

zoning
schools
data
map
toronto
tl;dr I made an interactive map to visualize excess TDSB school capacity on top of population change and zoning
Feb 21, 2022
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