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  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Remind me again why Kitchener Frame is being redeveloped into a bunch of small parcels? Shouldn’t it have just been kept in reserve if it’s so important to have large industrial parcels available? Alm...
   ijmorlan Politics 135 3,143 04-13-2024, 12:19 PM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
neonjoe Wrote: (04-11-2024, 09:41 PM) -- The public board put a PD day on April 10 for Eid, they also had one on Diwali to allow the families of the kids to celebrate. The Separate board did not. -- ...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 148 30,898 04-11-2024, 11:22 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
tomh009 Wrote: (04-11-2024, 10:50 AM) -- ac3r Wrote: (04-10-2024, 08:51 PM) -- I missed this bit of Peak Conservatism so I had to share it in case anyone else also missed this: https://twitter.com/O...
   ijmorlan Politics 462 174,889 04-11-2024, 12:26 PM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
ac3r Wrote: (04-10-2024, 10:23 PM) -- Then I remember we just closed schools because we think children are too stupid to not look at the sun and we call anything over 1cm of snow a "snow event". -- ...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 148 30,898 04-11-2024, 12:24 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
I hope those Swiss examples have the weather proofing between roof and wall figured out. My parent’s cottage had no overhang like that and they had problems with water getting in until they extended t...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 1,237 985,814 04-11-2024, 12:20 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
cherrypark Wrote: (04-10-2024, 09:05 AM) -- ac3r Wrote: (02-21-2024, 11:39 AM) -- Why are talentless architects addicted to putting random blotches of colour on their buildings? It makes no sense. -...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 1,237 985,814 04-10-2024, 11:26 AM
  Thread: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3-35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3...
SF22 Wrote: (04-10-2024, 10:06 AM) -- The first blow came from the Ministry of Transportation, which operates the expressway and deemed the pedestrian bridge unnecessary in rejecting it. -- Experti...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 173 30,937 04-10-2024, 11:24 AM
  Thread: 300 King St W | 50, 55 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 300 King St W | 50, 55 fl | Proposed
ac3r Wrote: (03-28-2024, 04:36 PM) -- It would be an incredible economic waste to tear those buildings down considering they only went up fairly recently, not to mention the extreme environmental dam...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 25 1,184 03-28-2024, 05:44 PM
  Thread: 300 King St W | 50, 55 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 300 King St W | 50, 55 fl | Proposed
Looks like they forgot the portico along King St. Just a small, less useful, one along Francis St., enough to prove that they can do it but that they just don’t care to meet the street properly. I ...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 25 1,184 03-28-2024, 09:06 AM
  Thread: Charles Place | 25, 32, 34, 36, 40, 46, and 46 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Charles Place | 25, 32, 34, 36, 40, 46, and 46...
And I appreciate architects who understand that some of us would like to be able to get places without getting rained on. Nice proposal! Now to see if it’s actually built anything like what’s in the d...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 12 520 03-27-2024, 10:16 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Schneider Family Lands donation to rare charit...
Rainrider22 Wrote: (03-27-2024, 08:03 AM) -- …Also, many farmers don't rotate crops.  I too rent out land and they have been doing soybeans for 10 years straight with no issue and high yields... -- ...
   ijmorlan Politics 135 3,143 03-27-2024, 10:11 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
I would also say that expropriation should not be useable to short circuit the normal search for a site for something. It should only be allowed when a specific piece of land is required. For example,...
   ijmorlan Politics 135 3,143 03-27-2024, 10:06 AM
  Thread: 1 Columbia Street West | 7 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 1 Columbia Street West | 7 fl | Proposed
ac3r Wrote: (03-26-2024, 02:59 PM) -- westwardloo Wrote: (03-22-2024, 01:39 PM) -- If only 1 Columbia was half as nice as this design. -- Yeah, it's awful. Not just the design but the quality of t...
   ijmorlan University Area 7 729 03-27-2024, 10:02 AM
  Thread: 83-87 Weber St E | 32 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 83-87 Weber St E | 25 fl | Proposed
SF22 Wrote: (03-22-2024, 09:07 AM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (07-28-2023, 06:20 PM) -- Part of the problem is the complexity of dealing with zoning. You end up with organizations who essentially are expert...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 53 6,624 03-22-2024, 11:19 AM
  Thread: 1 Columbia Street West | 7 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 1 Columbia Street West | 7 fl | Proposed
Interesting that the render shows the King St. address (355). I assume this is replacing just 355, not 351 as well? I’ve been wondering what would eventually happen to the two houses still there on Ki...
   ijmorlan University Area 7 729 03-21-2024, 09:10 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
A lot of the abandoned rail lines in the country were actually not very good rail lines. It’s far from clear that a route laid down over a century ago and abandoned for decades is the right route for ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,983 03-21-2024, 08:59 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (03-19-2024, 02:22 PM) -- Edit: Wow that heritage report just reminded me that there was an End of the Roll warehouse where that parking lot is. I completely forgot that existed. -- And...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 5,575 3,947,454 03-19-2024, 06:40 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
ac3r Wrote: (03-18-2024, 08:24 PM) -- That isn't the same as saying it's okay for people to get killed in automobile accidents, though. Nobody likes such news and it isn't a radical position to say s...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 601 188,341 03-18-2024, 11:26 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
ac3r Wrote: (03-18-2024, 02:01 PM) -- Absolutely nobody thinks this is okay or that it's "radical" to state as such. -- Lots of people think it’s fine to keep building roads the way we do, and to d...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 601 188,341 03-18-2024, 03:41 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
SF22 Wrote: (03-15-2024, 10:18 AM) -- Region wants to buy farms off Nafziger Road in Wilmot "The Region of Waterloo wants to buy about 700 acres of land northeast of the intersection of Nafziger a...
   ijmorlan Politics 135 3,143 03-15-2024, 01:36 PM
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (03-14-2024, 03:41 PM) -- Why don't you try reading the entire thing next time? You'll see in the very next sentences I acknowledge that grids predate the automobile. As I pointed out, th...
   ijmorlan Townships 170 158,691 03-15-2024, 12:49 AM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
bravado Wrote: (03-13-2024, 04:12 PM) -- https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/habitat-gets-all-clear-for-shantz-hill-towns-as-land-tribunal-dismisses-appeal-8433724 I am pleased to announce th...
   ijmorlan Suburbs 1,207 943,111 03-13-2024, 09:46 PM
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (03-13-2024, 04:44 PM) -- …. Grid layouts are an entirely modern North American system designed around the automobile. … Detroit, New York City, Toronto, Los Angeles, Chicago etc are all ...
   ijmorlan Townships 170 158,691 03-13-2024, 09:43 PM
  Thread: What does DTK need?
Post: RE: What does DTK need?
Kodra24 Wrote: (03-11-2024, 03:01 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (03-11-2024, 12:34 PM) -- This is only useful if you intend to lock people up forever. For serious crimes like premediated murder, this...
   ijmorlan Urban Issues 176 21,326 03-11-2024, 04:08 PM
  Thread: Amalgamation
Post: RE: Amalgamation
Kodra24 Wrote: (03-11-2024, 02:57 PM) -- But again, it is a CHOICE to use it! We, the people, have the power to stop FB or any other social media empire by simply ditching it or switching to another ...
   ijmorlan Urban Issues 446 218,523 03-11-2024, 04:03 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
KevinT Wrote: (03-10-2024, 09:43 PM) -- This is my favourite explanation of security theatre: I Cringely, To a Man With a Hammer (https://www.cringely.com/2021/09/10/bobs-9-11-post-from-20-years-a...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,106,901 03-11-2024, 09:22 AM

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