This past week, the Grumpy Taxpayer$ published a blog post and sent out a newsletter with inaccurate information about the…
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Part 3. Missing Middle Housing, Design Guidelines, and the Protection of Neighbourhood Character
This post will be as much photo essay as written word. I want to show that Missing Middle Housing already…
New Year’s Message: Co-Existence Key to Healthy Democracy, Community in 2022
The apple and the aspen, two very different trees happily co-exist side by side in our backyard. At the beginning…
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Part 2. Missing Middle Housing, Tenant Protections, and How Missing Middle Upzoning Alone Won’t Solve the Affordability Crisis
Samples of Missing Middle Housing proposed for Victoria. These are low-rise, multi-family dwellings that fit into existing neighbourhoods and are…
Affordability, Housing and Homelessness/Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric/Well Being and Healthy Cities
Part 1. The Racist and Exclusionary History of Single Family Zoning
The majority of the light yellow areas – which comprise a large portion of the city's limited land base –…
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Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric/Climate Change and Sustainability/Well Being and Healthy Cities
Privacy, Loneliness, and Climate Adaptation
Our backyard adjacent to our neighbours. At just about every land use public hearing I've sat through for the last…
Victoria’s 2022 Budget Sets the Table for the Future
This piece was originally published in the Times Colonist here. I’ve been at the Council table for 10 years; this…
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The World Is Coming Apart at the Seams and Why We Should Embrace It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPuj3J49dzQ A few weeks ago, the City of Victoria, the Victoria Foundation and the Canadian Urban Institute came together to…
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Civil Society and a Strong Social Fabric/Economic Development and Prosperity/Well Being and Healthy Cities
Welcoming Victoria: An Inclusive, Anti-Racist City
To learn more about the process of developing the Welcoming City Strategy and to meet some members of the Welcoming…
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Late September Strawberries, and the Work of Reconciliation
I wrote this poem while picking strawberries, a few days before the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation –…
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