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Craig Ruttan

@crut

Housing, City-Building, Politics. 2020 DiverseCity Fellow. From PDC to YYZ. 🏳️‍🌈🚴‍♀️👬🕺🐈 Tweets my own (he/him)

Toronto, Canada Katılım Ocak 2009
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Craig Ruttan
Craig Ruttan@crut·
New idea for 24 Sussex: tear it down, replace it with a triplex. Units for the PM, leader of the opposition, Governor General. Heck, toss in a garden suite for the leader of the third party. Model the #MissingMiddle at the highest level.
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NEWSTALK 1010@NEWSTALK1010·
"It raises questions about magic math here? How do you do that? The reality is Torontonians have suffered through nearly a 25% tax increase this term of council." Mayoral candidate @BradMBradford tells @JohnTory he has concerns about the small tax increase in the 2026 city budget
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Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀@EricDLombardi·
Earlier this year I penned an article arguing @MayorOliviaChow must become a Housing Champion. Examples like this show us how much we need leadership to step up and change the bureaucratic culture on housing at city hall. thestar.com/opinion/contri…
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More Neighbours Toronto@MoreNeighbours

Only a week after @OliviaChow introduced her plan to build more rental housing her Committee of Adjustment has: ✅️killed desperately needed affordable housing units ✅️indefinitely deferred missing middle homes.

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Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀
Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀@EricDLombardi·
Brad is making excellent suggestions here to get shovels in the ground on Toronto’s purpose-built pipeline. There is a lot the city can do, as he points out, without having to demand significant funding from other levels of government which may not come.
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Brad Bradford@BradMBradford

🚨 Toronto’s housing starts are collapsing—and the crisis is only getting worse. The Mayor’s new program promises 20,000 rental units, but the sad truth is that it won’t deliver anything close to that. Read my full op-ed in the @TorontoStar 👇 thestar.com/opinion/contri…

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Brad Bradford
Brad Bradford@BradMBradford·
Local planner @PlannerSean recently shed light on an important issue: the misclassification of semi-detached fourplexes as apartment buildings. This highlights the challenges for people trying to build housing and facing complicated and seemingly inconsistent interpretations of zoning by-laws. As Sean said, “It shouldn’t be that hard”. theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/ar…
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Cara Stern
Cara Stern@carastern·
Who cares? It's homes for people. If homeowners want to build more homes on lots that they own, why should people across the street that don't own it get a say?
Matt Elliott@GraphicMatt

Calling it a "little wee street" and an "anomaly" , Councillor Paula Fletcher shows off a map of Craven Road on the overhead projector. "Is it a Garden Suite? Is it a Laneway Suite? What kind of suite is it? What happens when it's on one of these other roads? Very complicated."

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Cara Stern
Cara Stern@carastern·
I get that @PaulaFletcherTO thinks only the community should have a say, but giving current homeowners free reign to dictate housing policy is a big part of why we have a housing crisis. Stop enabling it, and fight for the future constituents who would like to live there too.
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"This is a community conversation for a community solution. Because I think everyone believes that a garden suite is something that's in your backyard — in your garden!" says Councillor Fletcher. She asks council to give planning staff a chance to "see how this all fits together"

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Matt Elliott
Matt Elliott@GraphicMatt·
"If we were to create a blackout zone for this specific street [on Garden Suite permissions], would you say that expands options or that removes housing options?" Councillor Bradford asks planning staff. "I would generally not recommend that that's a good approach," says staffer
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Matt Elliott
Matt Elliott@GraphicMatt·
"Councillor Perks is beating his chest on all the progress we've made on the Housing Action Plan, but he did not highlight all of the items that have been delayed," says a fired-up Bradford. He says there's lots of work for planning staff to do, and Fletcher's motion distracts.
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Matt Elliott
Matt Elliott@GraphicMatt·
Councillor Brad Bradford moves to NOT proceed with any kind of review of garden suite zoning permissions on Craven Road. He says this would just be a return to "exclusionary zoning" and that Fletcher is "bending the knee to some NIMBY voices."
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Andrew Dodds
Andrew Dodds@AndrewJDodds·
@GraphicMatt If this's what @PaulaFletcherTO shows, it kinda shows clearly that Craven's definitely more able to accommodate additional homes than the laneway to the east, & likely every single laneway in Toronto. Laneway homes should be called roadway homes. Take Dundas as 1, in her own ward
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Matt Elliott
Matt Elliott@GraphicMatt·
Toronto City Council meets today! It’s been a while. Mayor Olivia Chow has set the debate about the island airport as the first order of business, so fasten those seatbelts. The meeting is streaming here. I’ll post happenings. youtube.com/watch?v=L73Nkv…
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Jacob Loo Dawang 🔰
Jacob Loo Dawang 🔰@jacoobaloo·
Folks, this is what we call a smackdown. Honestly think that Toronto would have been better off housing-wise with John Tory and Bradford as chair of planning and housing.
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STOREYS@storeyspub

Following an impromptu speech at last week's Committee meeting from Councillor Gord Perks, some in Toronto's development industry are up in arms over Perks' denial that fees and zoning are playing a role in the City's housing crisis. storeys.com/gord-perks-tor…

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Scott Aitchison
Scott Aitchison@ScottAAitchison·
Justin Trudeau gave Toronto $471 million dollars. Then the city raised development charges 42%. Mayor Chow’s hand picked chair of planning doesn’t seem to think that’s a problem. When I was Mayor I fired gatekeepers like this.
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Brad Bradford
Brad Bradford@BradMBradford·
Don’t miss out on CNE’s last weekend; the Ex says goodbye on September 2. Had a truly wonderful time at the @LetsGoToTheEX with my family—seeing Briar’s joy and experiencing first times through her eyes was priceless. Moments like these remind me how special family time truly is. What’s your favorite memory at the Ex? Until next year! 🎡🫶
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James Line
James Line@jameslineky·
wait this is actually brat
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@BradMBradford @JohnTory @MayorOliviaChow @kassbrownridge @PlannerSean @PaulaFletcherTO @AndrewJDodds @GraphicMatt