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  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Bjays93 Wrote: (05-22-2024, 04:52 PM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (05-21-2024, 05:02 PM) -- 4 lots would have to be most of the block I would think. North or South side? -- North side. Not nearly the whole b...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 1,243 1,000,468 05-22-2024, 11:26 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Bjays93 Wrote: (05-21-2024, 12:42 PM) -- I’ve heard a rumour that someone (unclear who) is attempting a land assembly for up to 4 lots between king, Weber along Columbia. Not overly surprising as...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 1,243 1,000,468 05-21-2024, 05:02 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
bravado Wrote: (05-17-2024, 07:21 PM) -- The Gardiner was just uploaded to the province, so yeah we did pay for its continued existence - and future generations will too as the price tag keeps growin...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 966 836,276 05-17-2024, 09:01 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
ac3r Wrote: (05-16-2024, 04:00 PM) -- Though, I'm curious what you mean by it "divides downtown Toronto". In what way does it divide anything? Just its physical presence? I know there have been decad...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 966 836,276 05-17-2024, 11:27 AM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
cherrypark Wrote: (05-16-2024, 03:52 PM) -- I also think that it's usually a zero-sum evaluation where building the highway means less investment in transit connections between the cities. Partly bec...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 966 836,276 05-17-2024, 11:22 AM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
SammyOES Wrote: (05-16-2024, 07:21 PM) -- The worst case, imo, is a road lined with box stores and round abouts that has to support local traffic and a large chunk of traffic just moving between the ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 966 836,276 05-17-2024, 11:21 AM
  Thread: 332 Charles Street East | 17 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 332 Charles Street East | 17 fl | Proposed
nms Wrote: (05-17-2024, 06:56 AM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (05-16-2024, 03:06 PM) -- Per unit demolished, or per unit proposed in order to justify the demolition? In a typical case, the first of these ...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 44 6,150 05-17-2024, 11:18 AM
  Thread: 332 Charles Street East | 17 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 332 Charles Street East | 17 fl | Proposed
nms Wrote: (05-16-2024, 07:44 AM) -- The bylaw requires construction no less than two years after the demolition permit is issued with the risk of a fine of $10,000 per unit if the deadline is missed...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 44 6,150 05-16-2024, 03:06 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
bravado Wrote: (05-16-2024, 01:43 PM) -- We clearly need a good road connection to Guelph, but it’s important to not make more bad, unproductive, wasteful neighbourhoods in the process. It’s more com...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 966 836,276 05-16-2024, 03:03 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
taylortbb Wrote: (05-16-2024, 12:24 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (05-15-2024, 09:14 PM) -- Do you think Toronto would be Toronto without the Gardiner? -- No, I think Toronto would be so much better without ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 966 836,276 05-16-2024, 03:00 PM
  Thread: Hospitals in KW
Post: RE: Hospitals in KW
KevinL Wrote: (05-12-2024, 08:25 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (05-12-2024, 12:45 PM) -- And if it's such a big issue, go to the closer hospitals  -- That's the thing, all the existing ERs in K-W will be clo...
   ijmorlan Urban Issues 241 37,874 05-14-2024, 09:14 AM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
SF22 Wrote: (05-13-2024, 09:00 AM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (05-10-2024, 11:04 PM) -- Parkside Dr. comes out to Weber now — check Google Maps. -- The point is that they want to make a street connection ...
   ijmorlan Suburbs 1,236 961,946 05-14-2024, 09:09 AM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
SF22 Wrote: (05-10-2024, 10:10 AM) -- It looks like they fully expect to be able to connect through to Randall Dr at some point, with the way that Parkside Dr ends in a circle with nothing directly p...
   ijmorlan Suburbs 1,236 961,946 05-10-2024, 11:04 PM
  Thread: Three-bedroom madness
Post: RE: Three-bedroom madness
danbrotherston Wrote: (05-10-2024, 05:00 AM) -- As for the specifics of the "No students" rules...we of course know what this is...it is exactly an end run around human rights. They say "no students"...
   ijmorlan Outside Waterloo Region 20 950 05-10-2024, 09:16 AM
  Thread: Three-bedroom madness
Post: RE: Three-bedroom madness
danbrotherston Wrote: (05-10-2024, 05:00 AM) -- Condo corporations cannot evict tenants (or owners). They can only fine owners (or lien their unit). Also, owners are liable for costs including fines ...
   ijmorlan Outside Waterloo Region 20 950 05-10-2024, 09:13 AM
  Thread: Three-bedroom madness
Post: RE: Three-bedroom madness
tomh009 Wrote: (05-09-2024, 08:12 PM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (05-09-2024, 05:43 PM) -- I don’t see how they can enforce “no students”, regardless of whether there is a human rights violation problem. Wh...
   ijmorlan Outside Waterloo Region 20 950 05-09-2024, 10:11 PM
  Thread: Three-bedroom madness
Post: RE: Three-bedroom madness
I don’t see how they can enforce “no students”, regardless of whether there is a human rights violation problem. What if I rent to somebody and then they start taking a course? Who is violating the ru...
   ijmorlan Outside Waterloo Region 20 950 05-09-2024, 05:43 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: Taxation and the middle class
I could say a lot about this, but the thing that comes to mind is this: the property of a wealthy person or organization is, in practice, only property because it is defensible, specifically in our so...
   ijmorlan Politics 111 21,674 05-04-2024, 10:32 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
danbrotherston Wrote: (05-04-2024, 02:05 AM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (05-03-2024, 09:25 PM) -- If you want to beat up on wealthy people, beat up on the super-wealthy. We can build a society where ever...
   ijmorlan Politics 111 21,674 05-04-2024, 12:34 PM
  Thread: Three-bedroom madness
Post: RE: Three-bedroom madness
tomh009 Wrote: (05-02-2024, 10:06 PM) -- What kind of old-school? Old-school SFH or old-school walk-ups or old-school rowhouses? -- I’m not an expert in what specifically people want — ask developer...
   ijmorlan Outside Waterloo Region 20 950 05-03-2024, 09:27 PM
  Thread: Three-bedroom madness
Post: RE: Three-bedroom madness
ac3r Wrote: (05-03-2024, 07:30 PM) -- Everyone I know in NYC hates it so much. It seems the cost of living, migrants, homelessness, an explosion of crime, aging infrastructure and much more has ruine...
   ijmorlan Outside Waterloo Region 20 950 05-03-2024, 09:26 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
tomh009 Wrote: (05-02-2024, 09:54 PM) -- And while you say "not enormously wealthy", a person making a good salary (say, $100K) plus $500K+  in capital gains will surely look that way to someone who ...
   ijmorlan Politics 111 21,674 05-03-2024, 09:25 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Report on Business is full of news about business investments, some probably questionable, others much more positive. My point is just that capital gains arise in many situations, and pointing to bad...
   ijmorlan Politics 111 21,674 05-02-2024, 10:13 PM
  Thread: Three-bedroom madness
Post: RE: Three-bedroom madness
Looks like we need to build more of those old-school neighbourhoods. That’s what the market is demanding.
   ijmorlan Outside Waterloo Region 20 950 05-02-2024, 09:52 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
bravado Wrote: (05-02-2024, 12:50 PM) -- Even ignoring the fairness of it all - do we want to reward potentially-damaging investing and punish productive labour? Because so much of our productivity i...
   ijmorlan Politics 111 21,674 05-02-2024, 06:13 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
tomh009 Wrote: (05-02-2024, 10:48 AM) -- panamaniac Wrote: (05-01-2024, 06:15 PM) -- I don't think that has been made clear yet, but the impression is that will apply to the whole gain ( reduced by ...
   ijmorlan Politics 111 21,674 05-02-2024, 06:12 PM

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