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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.

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?

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.

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.

Updated district plan profile for each LRT station

map

data

housing

district planning

transit

edmonton

Updated maps and plots with the final draft district plans.

Transit commute mode share by provincial electoral division

map

data

transit

edmonton

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

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.

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.

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.

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”.

Migrating my Blog from Hugo to Quarto

meta

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…

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…

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.

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…

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

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.

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