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Gregg Lintern
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Toronto’s Chief Planner from 2017 to 2023 Instagram: gregglintern_rpp Bluesky: @gregglintern.bsky.social
Toronto, Ontario 🇨🇦 Bergabung Şubat 2012
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Offering this July 2022 reflection as our collective responsibility for an inclusive, resilient and prosperous city thestar.com/opinion/contri…
Toronto Star@TorontoStar
The suburbs vs. downtown: What the ‘uncomfortable marriage’ between the two Torontos means for the city’s biggest problems trib.al/hyXJVKt
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Transformative city builder Frank Ghery 1929-2025
Gregg Lintern@GreggLintern
“We did it!” Frank Ghery quietly said as I congratulated him at the ground breaking of his King West project. Over years through a hiatus that saw the site sold to today’s development group & all the complexity, Frank remained centred on the need for transformative design.
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@jm_mcgrath @ChrisSpoke Aside from the issues themselves, observing whether the American VP weighing in on Canadian immigration policy is akin to a Canadian Premier lighting up American tariff policy?
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@ChrisSpoke He's explicitly linking immigration and lower living standards, you absolutely do not have to hand it to him.
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Editorial alt title: Toronto leaves door ajar for corner stores. Makes one wonder how many Globe subscribers would have once appreciated picking up the paper by walking to their “corner store” (& how said subscribers may now correlate to the neighbours opposing this change).
Dan Seljak@anotherglassbox
It’s worth reading and not so much wrong as overly pessimistic. IMO an outcome that resulted in (admittedly limited) permissions when there were none is not “closing the door” to me. Sure, I wanted the door thrown wide open, but now it’s slightly ajar and light is coming in.
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Flashback to July 2020 - Toronto Council endorses EHON work plan which over the last 5+ years has brought much more choice to more places for more people across Toronto’s diverse neighbourhoods
Gregg Lintern@GreggLintern
Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods adopted by Toronto City Council endorsing a work plan that represents a generational opportunity to evolve low rise neighbourhoods as more inclusive places for people to call home @CityPlanTO
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@anotherglassbox In order to choose driving (which I sometimes do) to get the coffee we are out of, and complain about the traffic of course (which I sometimes do) instead of having at least the choice to walk or ride to get said coffee
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NIMBY account: attempts to induce mass agoraphobia with the delirious hallucinations of generative AI to fight an already neutered incremental neighbourhood retail expansion
your local corner store:
Dan Seljak@anotherglassbox
I went back to Family Mini Mart today to show you all what neighbourhood retail actually looks like. No AI. No Music. Time to grow up.
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Toronto Council considers whether it can make life a little easier for more people in more places - a decision that can bridge generations and communities, instead of dividing them
Gregg Lintern@GreggLintern
If you could walk a few minutes to get the milk you forgot for your kids cereal or maybe you need chocolate chips for homemade cookies because your grandchildren are coming over - this city can work better for all generations when life is within reach secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda…
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@MikePMoffatt @PlannerSean Again, yes on misalignment between growth funding & planning intentions - more recent DC relief etc on multiplex, laneway & garden example of alignment that is needed
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@GreggLintern @PlannerSean Okay, then, how about development charges that were significantly lower for shoebox condos than 3-bedroom apartments?
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New MMI piece: We look at the 3.5 million people in Canada who live in a home that is too small to meet their needs, and how a mismanaged push by governments and urban planners towards densification is at odds with the human right to housing.
Read here: missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/families-are…
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@MikePMoffatt @PlannerSean Yes, part of the misalignment. Check out all the recent ERO postings for planning act reform & do a word search for “human rights” driven policy …
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@GreggLintern @PlannerSean The biggest issue, IMO, is that all levels of government refuse to institute human-rights-based housing policies and allow for rights to get trampled on if they're mildly inconvenient to existing residents.
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@MikePMoffatt @PlannerSean This was very recent Mike. I’m talking about 15 years of seeking larger condo units; when it didn’t pencil in an increasingly frothy land & construction cost market
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@GreggLintern @PlannerSean Many of those "guidelines" actively prevented larger units, such as the caps on the number of bedrooms in a multiplex.
theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/ar…
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@PlannerSean @MikePMoffatt Over & over & over again & when guidelines & then policy were tried, over ruled by “ let the market decide”; is a balanced approach possible? Incremental sprawl expansion? Dev Charges reform? Incentives for 3bed in “any form infill” ? Biggest issue: market gov mis alignment
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@MikePMoffatt The article makes no mention of developers choosing not to build what households need, and instead built what investors (and basically banks) demanded. If a city said “3br only”, the biggest protest would be from developers screaming “I can’t sell those”
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Pictures like this underscore why it’s essential Metrolinx and the Government of Ontario successfully pull off GO Expansion. Regional express rail on all seven GO Lines would be transformative. It’s essentially building a surface subway for the entire GTHA.
Brandon Donnelly@donnelly_b
People like regional express rail
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If you could walk a few minutes to get the milk you forgot for your kids cereal or maybe you need chocolate chips for homemade cookies because your grandchildren are coming over - this city can work better for all generations when life is within reach secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda…
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Nothing sells on social like complaints - Spent about 7 hrs in Etobicoke waterfront parks today w/ family including 2 year old (@TorontoPFR manages 400 parks in Etobicoke alone) - thousands of people enjoying generous open space, great kids play areas & natural beauty - so sad
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Need for workforce homes a trend line through Toronto’s history - reading “Modest Hopes” (D. Loucks & L. Valpy) about early working-class neighbourhoods, now gentrified, thinking of post-war suburban expansion for workers & ambitions for plexes to help meet today’s housing needs
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Want your kids, your parents & family, your employees, your barber, your teacher, your PSW, your nurse, your local store clerk, your choir leader, your baseball coach, your mechanic, your bus driver, your best friend - do you want them all to live in Toronto? Why wouldn’t you?
John Lorinc@JohnLorinc
New from me on @Spacing: Council this week has a chance to greenlight sixplexes in residential neighbourhoods. The sky will not fall. In fact, this move represents a generational opportunity for council to repair Toronto's troubled housing market. spacing.ca/toronto/2025/0…
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