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Our next Making Room event is a special one. In 1973, Mitchell Cohen led tenant marches in Montreal. Since then, he's built nearly 40,000 homes across the GTA including Regent Park's revitalization. On June 23rd, he takes the stage himself in song and stories, with a full band

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Our next Making Room event is a special one. In 1973, Mitchell Cohen led tenant marches in Montreal. Since then, he's built nearly 40,000 homes across the GTA including Regent Park's revitalization. On June 23rd, he takes the stage himself in song and stories, with a full band

@ZoeCoombes @anotherglassbox the harbour doesn't have any neighbours who'll be terrified by a cafe on a corner lot

What the- Convenience stores are going to be legal (checks notes) in the harbour but not, as of right - across the city.. @anotherglassbox

@spaikin @jm_mcgrath @tvo 👏👏👏

Believe it or not, @jm_mcgrath is trying to explain planning principles at this Doors Open event at @tvo. I am not making this up.

#TTC is deeply saddened to learn that former City Councillor and TTC Board Chair Howard Moscoe passed away this morning. Our thoughts are with Mr. Moscoe’s family as they mourn his passing. He was 86. Mr. Moscoe served as Commissioner, Vice-Chair, and Chair during his 14 years of service on the Commission. He served on the TTC Board from 1992 to 2006. He was TTC Chair from 1998 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2006. Mr. Moscoe was a prominent and long-serving Councillor for Eglinton-Lawrence and a fierce advocate for transit system accessibility and for securing sustainable funding for the TTC. Mr. Moscoe took the helm at the TTC during a very challenging and complex year for the new amalgamated City of Toronto. Under Mr. Moscoe’s first term as Chair, the TTC broke ground on the new Queens Quay streetcar line that would connect Union Station with Exhibition Place; began construction on the Sheppard Subway, as well as started building the new Transit Control Centre at Hillcrest Complex. During his second term as Chair, Mr. Moscoe helped steer the TTC through the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis and North America’s largest electricity blackout affecting 50 million people across the North Eastern Seaboard, both of which caused significant declines in ridership. Under his tenure, the TTC introduced its Ridership Growth Strategy in 2003, a blueprint for transit investment for the decade that followed, which saw the system grow ridership to more than half a billion riders annually. “It was a wild and exciting ride,” Mr. Moscoe said at his official TTC farewell at City Hall in 2007. “We were building a transit system together and we were doing it for the people of Toronto.” On behalf of all TTC employees, we extend our condolences to Mr. Moscoe’s family and friends during this difficult time. All flags across TTC properties are lowered to half-mast in Mr. Moscoe’s honour.

To paraphrase from a different context: "If you can keep it"

Was on Church Street last night to celebrate the pedestrian pilot passing council and saw what originally inspired me to propose pedestrianizing it in the first place—sidewalks so crowded that spill into the parking lane!

Open Data Jams are coming to a @TOtechweek near you, and we mean BUSINESS We're focusing on the entrepreneurs and enterprises building on the city - if you're into open data, business, or civic space, come through! May 28th Metro Hall luma.com/jfot7afn

@ChrisSpoke @cselley "removal of parking minimums" as "developers must not provide parking, ever again"

@cselley "multiplexes are permitted" as "detached houses are prohibited"

Ontario is a planet where people hear "bars will be allowed to stay open until 4am" as "all bars will stay open until 4am."

We, of course, had some feelings about this and decided to share those feelings with City Council. toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2… @envirodefence @RESCON_GR @AtmosphericFund @HabitatGTA @ScarbCycles @_RCCAO

At the last Scarborough Community Council there was a blink and you'll miss it item that was walked on by Cllr Ainslie to bring back Parking Space Minimums for new developments in Scarborough (seriously, consideration was for all of 14 sec) youtube.com/watch?v=uW4dRF…

@BlairScorgie so young and full of hope!

Throwback. The OG YIMBY Crew.

For "Old Office to #AffordableHousing" conversions in Canada, our HNTO volunteers often suggest look for 1960/70's buildings w/ Medical / Dental Office uses, as built-form is usually standardized & boxy -- plus the individual units have been serviced w/ plumbing & electrical capacity...

@peter_tulip Has Chicago been experiencing population contraction or is the median income significantly lower than comparator cities? Wondering why it's an outlier.

The New York Times editorial board strongly argues for looser zoning restrictions. "Fortunately, the country has decades of evidence about how to bring down [the high cost of housing]: We need to build more homes." (paywalled) nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@DechampsAlan There are some very motivated and organized challengers out there this round. Not that there aren't most election cycles, but this feels like a continuation of a changing of the guard that kicked off in 2022.

@JeffMacSabby Nope, but looks like they do good and necessary work! Frankly, we need more and different types of supportive housing in Toronto!

No affiliation that I'm aware of with @moreneighbours.

I am at a meeting for 4129 Lawrence Ave E #TOpoli #morehousing haveyoursay.toronto.ca/city-planning-…

@civicsproj probably not as much because the content will lean more towards sentiment than solid arguments, but it could be useful as a signal for degree of interest/organization/news worthiness. (and also because letters from individuals aren't automatically made public on TMMIS)

@MoreNeighbours That’s a great question. Currently it’s just using the background documents. Would including the public correspondence and deputations would be useful to you?

We’re rolling out support for Toronto City Council! civicsproject.org/regions/toront…