City Planner, former Halagonian transplant, and now Vancouver Islander. Lover of design, architecture, placemaking, transit, all things urban.... and baseball.
Victoria, British Columbia
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Fascinating disaster related Japanese infrastructure I’d never heard about before. Food for thought for those of us living in a place that has had a hurricane and a pandemic in the last 6 months. reasonstobecheerful.world/ja…
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Amazed at these @hfxgov street lights. What the hell are these things attached to the pole with??
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Hurricane Dorian Update
Halifax Water’s water supply plants continue to produce high quality drinking water and our wastewater treatment facilities are functioning as intended under high-flow conditions.
For water, wastewater & stormwater/flooding issues, call 902-420-9287
As a hurricane rookie, it’s amazing and reassuring to watch the preparations and actions of the ‘vets’. I’ve copied you all, and the family is feeling prepped. Stay safe everyone.
If your significant other tells you to try building something using wooden pallets because they saw it on pintrest- go ahead and get a preemptive tetanus shot.
All my nagging has worked! My parents took the Go Train into the city to watch the raptors parade yesterday and left the car in the suburbs. #proudson
It’s Municipal budget season! I’d recommend to all municipal leaders this great podcast on the Benefits of investing in social infrastructure - specifically libraries. @romanmars keeps hitting dingers with @99piorg
99percentinvisible.org/episo…
USA Check-out lady - Hey, can I see some ID for this beer
Me - Absolutely! Here.
C.O.L. - *looking*........... sorry, just looking for your birthday
Me - Ya, we use the metric calendar in Canada.
C.O.L. - Oh. That’s why!
Me - ................. yup
Top site planning tip: if you can fit 6 townhouses in your parking lot drive aisle, it may be too wide. #floridalife
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This is one of the most astonishing things I've ever seen (only mild hyperbole). This is the view from the train between two stops on the metro in outer-Shanghai.
If you've ever wondered how China has room for 1.3bn people... this is how.
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Join us for a conversation about incorporating the Secondary Municipal Planning Strategy (SMPS) & Land Use By-Law (LUB) for the Downtown Dartmouth commercial core into the Centre Plan. Mon. Oct. 22, 2018, Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney St, 6-8:30 p.m. Presentation @ 6:30 pm.
There are now no more single family home zones in Vancouver. And I'm willing to bet this hasn't caused property values to drop suddenly overnight over concerns for traffic and overcrowding.
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