.Toronto Police officers safely biking through stop signs today. These officers should NOT be ticketed but held up as an example of the efficiency & low risk to public safety of the #IdahoStop. We do wish these officers had used hand signals to indicate, but no one's perfect.

Woo-hoo to a fun FriYAY 🎉of reimagining Bond Street in #downtownToronto! Positive vibes, 😊smiling faces, friendly conversations, and engaging activities. Huge shout out to Urban Minds, Victor Perez-Amado, Zhixi Zhuang and SURP students who made #ParkingDay2022 a success!

Are you interested in our Master of Planning program? Join us for an open house on October 19, 5-7 pm, to learn more about graduate studies in planning SURP. You will have a chance to speak with faculty, staff & current students. See you tomorrow, 3rd fl at 105 Bond St in TO!

The word on the street is that the Oct 25 MMAH announcement will include: -No 3rd party appeals to the OLT -Any existing 3rd party appeals that don't have a date scheduled will be cancelled -Strong mayor powers to all munis +100k pop

BREAKING: Cambridge, Massachusetts City Council has voted 8-1 to REMOVE ALL MINIMUM PARKING REQUIREMENTS from the city’s zoning code (commercial and residential)!

It's here

A little sneak peek at the work The Laneway Project is doing w/ lead artists Julia Prajza and Chrissy Kuiack & their amazing team at Main Station’s laneway Follow TLP on Twitter & Instagram for the whole story. HT City of Toronto 🇨🇦 FedDev Ontario Brad Bradford #LoveTheLaneways

People love retail in neighbourhoods. We should allow way more of it.

Enjoying of presentations this morning on a variety of #urbanplanning topics, and mobile tour this afternoon of Leslie Spit at #acsp2022 💡🗺🐦 The ACSP TMAPS

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Who owns the land the Ford government is proposing to take out of the Greenbelt? | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

This blog post shares the book chapter co-written by Gary Pritchard and Sheila Boudreau for the Landscape Approach book. This chapter is timely and brings attention to current threats to the Ontario Greenbelt. See: sprucelab.ca/blog/conservat… #greenbelt #conservation #wetlands

Wow - the PC government just shut down committee hearings on Bill 23, the most sweeping land-use planning bill in years. The City of Toronto was next up to speak about the bill’s impact on Canada’s largest city. Now they are shut out. #onpoli #bill23

Just here to report that Helsinki has open, public, fully winterized, efficient, accessible and clean washrooms in every park. And maybe I hid in one for a few minutes trying to warm up from the windchill of -12°C.

If Sean’s tweet gets 1,000 likes we will build another one of these, providing a few more critical rental housing suites needed in Toronto, in a low rise built form.

Poetry in motion. #WorldBollardAssociation

Separated bike lanes under construction on Eglinton (Toronto)!

Check out this aerial view of the future Ernest #Park - a 740 sq. meter community space that will be built along the West #Toronto Railpath, as part of the #Kitchener Fourth Track project. The project will also increase 🛤 capacity and bring more service on the #Kitchener Line.

A significant milestone for Toronto. Rooming houses are legal.

Not ideal. The sidewalk on my street in the west end was similarly piled with snow from street clearing. Wonder if a simple change could be made that makes sure the snow from street clearing stays on the edge of the street, not on the sidewalk.