Category: Climate Change and Sustainability
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Part 4. Missing Middle Housing and More Inclusive, Climate-Friendly Cities for the Future
This is the final part in a four-part series to make as strong a case as possible for Missing Middle Housing in all neighbourhoods in Victoria. This initiative is key to the city’s future. In a nutshell, Missing Middle Housing will allow for more inclusive housing forms “as of right”, which means without needing to…
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Part 3. Missing Middle Housing, Design Guidelines, and the Protection of Neighbourhood Character
The City is currently undertaking consultation on a proposal to implement Missing Middle Housing in all neighbourhoods and allow for more inclusive housing forms “as of right”, which means without needing to go through a rezoning process. The Missing Middle Housing initiative is focused on creating more townhouses and houseplexes (including duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, etc.)…
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Clover Point 2.0, Accessibility, Confronting Reality, and The Future We Need
Dave Obee’s Times Colonist editorial on Friday, “Clover Point redesign ‘fixes’ what wasn’t broken,” really got under my skin. So I thought I’d go down to Clover Point on Saturday afternoon, watch the world go by for a little while, and start this blog post. What I saw were people of all ages and abilities…
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“Community Making” Requires Housing of All Sorts – Three Big Ideas
Last Thursday, at a public hearing for a proposed new condo building on Rockland Ave near Cook Street, a neighbour spoke to Council in favour of the new housing. He listed all the types of housing in the area: he lives in a townhouse; this new condo building is proposed on the lot next door;…
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Zero Waste Victoria: A City Where Nothing Is Wasted
This piece was originally published in the Times Colonist here. Discussions about garbage have taken up a lot of space in the Times Colonist Comments section in the past months. Trevor Hancock and Jon O’Riordan outlined the importance of reducing consumption and taking a zero-waste approach. CRD General Manager of Environmental Services, Larisa Hutchinson, laid…
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Convert Your Oil Heating to Heat Pump – Big Subsidy Now Available
Daily address Thursday April 23rd. We’ll be back Friday at 2:30pm. It’s been another long day and it’s too late to still be working. Instead of transcribing my speaking notes here as I’ve been doing each evening, I’m taking an easier path and sharing the text of the City’s daily media release. Apologies to those…
