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  Thread: 32, 36, 38 Grand Ave S | 28 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 32, 36, 38 Grand Ave S | 28 fl | Proposed
I thought this was not actually a real project, but a re-zone and flip, but there is some news as a settlement is reached between the city and developer at the OLT. Council didn't even get the chance ...
   bravado Urban Areas 4 1,239 10-05-2026, 09:22 AM
  Thread: Eureka (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Eureka (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | U/...
Do any municipalities have meaningful legal power to force developers to build "nice" things? This really seems like a complaint that we expect the market to deal with, but since the market is so insa...
   bravado Urban Areas 219 92,917 09-09-2026, 03:01 PM
  Thread: General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours
The Indwell supportive housing project in downtown Preston is still ongoing. I don't know a single thing about construction, but it might be quite difficult working around the old exterior like this. ...
   bravado Urban Areas 392 464,379 08-24-2026, 05:24 PM
  Thread: 201 & 217 Hespeler Road | 13 + 17 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 201 & 217 Hespeler Road | 13 + 17 fl | Propose...
New update on the City website, and people wonder why the housing crisis is a thing when projects like this have 4 year gaps in approvals Quote: -- The City has received a Zoning By-law Amendm...
   bravado Suburbs 16 8,211 08-02-2026, 09:45 PM
  Thread: General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours
The proposal was already a prank project that will never get built - if only the province and local councils changed their own rules that incentivize developers to propose insane things so that the ev...
   bravado Urban Areas 392 464,379 07-18-2026, 02:47 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Ah, P3s are such an elegant way of providing public services reliably and on-budget...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 17,677 13,807,446 07-17-2026, 02:40 PM
  Thread: Downtown Kitchener Fire Station | 19 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Downtown Kitchener Fire Station | 19 fl | Prop...
Once again: if you think you can sell a project that has x units of parking, you should be able to do it without neighbours chiming in nearby about why you "need to have" a minimum number of xyz. Why ...
   bravado Urban Areas 50 8,511 06-17-2026, 06:20 PM
  Thread: Downtown Kitchener Fire Station | 19 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Downtown Kitchener Fire Station | 19 fl | Prop...
Gubs Wrote: (06-17-2026, 09:14 AM) -- ...As a 30-year resident of this neighbourhood, I know exactly what's coming.  -- Translation: I haven't had to personally worry about housing for decades, so I...
   bravado Urban Areas 50 8,511 06-17-2026, 09:41 AM
  Thread: Downtown Kitchener Fire Station | 19 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Downtown Kitchener Fire Station | 19 fl | Prop...
Gubs Wrote: (06-08-2026, 01:47 PM) -- What are the odds that with 285 units, noooobody will have a car?  I’m guessing that there will be at least 50. With ZERO parking, that means that those cars wil...
   bravado Urban Areas 50 8,511 06-08-2026, 10:26 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Kodra24 Wrote: (06-02-2026, 09:46 AM) -- Rules for thee not for me -- Well yeah, speed cameras were just ripped out this year. I thought we didn’t need to follow laws anymore… or is it only cyclists...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 661 312,893 06-03-2026, 12:48 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Kodra24 Wrote: (06-01-2026, 01:19 PM) -- Wish there was a way cyclists can get fines for running red lights, unfortunately it's only for cars -- It’s true, emergency rooms would be much less swampe...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 661 312,893 06-02-2026, 09:00 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Which is why the fact that people across the world want to come here is an economic superpower that Anglosphere politicians and voters seem to refuse to acknowledge and benefit from... Now that the...
   bravado Urban Areas 6,010 5,230,424 05-31-2026, 09:04 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
What if we just made a shitload of at-grade crossings to “keep traffic moving” and then blamed individuals for the obvious outcome of endless predictable crashes? It’s so much easier from an engineeri...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 17,677 13,807,446 05-26-2026, 04:43 PM
  Thread: Eureka (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Eureka (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | U/...
westwardloo Wrote: (05-26-2026, 08:18 AM) -- panamaniac Wrote: (05-25-2026, 08:40 PM) -- Having been in Kitchener this week, I must say that this one could be placed high on a short list of the ugli...
   bravado Urban Areas 219 92,917 05-26-2026, 12:26 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
ac3r Wrote: (05-15-2026, 03:49 PM) -- I welcome it. It's not like our local politicians are great at their job. Redman in particular sucks. And judging by the comments most people agree. But blue ...
   bravado Politics 650 338,716 05-15-2026, 09:21 PM
  Thread: 210-226 King St E (Cambridge) | 40 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 210-226 King St E | 40 fl | Proposed
Do you get the impression this is not a real project, just a way to get the property approved for change to go and resell to another developer?
   bravado Urban Areas 6 1,017 04-21-2026, 04:06 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
As a kid growing up in Stratford who regularly hopped on the VIA (unsupervised) to go to Toronto for a day, it's wild that the service has become both awful and expensive in the decades since. Hopeful...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 2,225 1,617,967 04-18-2026, 07:05 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
creative Wrote: (04-04-2026, 12:48 PM) -- “All my problems are the fault of women and immigrants” -- Everything was amazing until right after I was born, and after that exact point all change has be...
   bravado Urban Issues 604 382,571 04-04-2026, 02:19 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
What did I just read? Canada very specifically is not a nation-state. It's a post-colonial settler state and it's fundamentally weird and very suspicious to talk about the things you just did. In no ...
   bravado Urban Issues 604 382,571 04-02-2026, 06:39 PM
  Thread: Cambridge urban cores
Post: RE: Cambridge urban cores
I'm happy to announce that the vote for creating a large "Heritage Core District" in Galt has been voted down 6-3. https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/cambridge-council-rejects-expanded-herita...
   bravado Waterloo Region Heritage 15 24,694 03-26-2026, 07:53 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
Vojnik_Vahaj Wrote: (03-26-2026, 01:14 PM) -- Population decline isn't bad in most cases. Populations rise and fall almost cyclicly(when it is natural causes). When it declines, there are more resour...
   bravado Urban Issues 604 382,571 03-26-2026, 07:46 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
When will we see the decline in population, and therefore housing starts, start to hit city finances when development charge money slows to a trickle?
   bravado Urban Issues 604 382,571 03-21-2026, 11:35 AM
  Thread: 4611 King St E | 30 & 25 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 4611 King St E | 30 & 25 fl | Proposed
Bjays93 Wrote: (03-08-2026, 12:56 PM) -- I ultimately think it's a good thing that this proposal didn't go forward. This site is ripe for redevelopment, but what was submitted wasn't suitable for the...
   bravado Suburbs 53 21,301 03-08-2026, 05:24 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
Don't really know where to share this news, but it looks like the Region has a new CAO (shared by the reliable experts at TriTAG) (https://bsky.app/profile/tritag.ca/post/3mg6hgrpjys2x) who seems to h...
   bravado Politics 650 338,716 03-03-2026, 07:41 PM
  Thread: 535 Quiet Pl | 8 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 535 Quiet Pl | 8 fl | Proposed
People want to live in cities where all the opportunities are - it won’t be zero, unless we stop building housing…
   bravado Suburbs 25 8,461 02-20-2026, 07:03 PM
  Thread: 535 Quiet Pl | 8 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 535 Quiet Pl | 8 fl | Proposed
westwardloo Wrote: (02-18-2026, 04:24 PM) -- hahaha Why can't we have nice things? -- Because they are specifically outlawed in the planning and zoning codes…  :(
   bravado Suburbs 25 8,461 02-18-2026, 04:35 PM

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