Alex Gascon @GasconAlex
planning / aff housing Vancouver, British Columbia Joined August 2020-
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My upcoming piece on homeless construction workers is going to be in this issue. @westendphoenix has published and commissioned the best writing of my life. They made me a writer again after years of being simultaneously ground down and built up by construction work.
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@holz_bau yet no developer wants to acquire such a lot cause it's "shaped weird"
yimby but also scared of billionaires row
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Every 1M spent on bike lanes creates 18 more jobs than the same amount for regular auto centric roads…lets “self-propel” our planets future….#bikelanesrock
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This family built their own apartment building to accommodate three generations. It's designed to flow like a conventional multi-story house for a single family with allowances to divide into standalone apartments when the children become adults. dwell.com/article/three-…
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Fraser River flooding, from space. Amazing movement of topsoil into the sea. Stay safe, all. @NASA
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"Low-density developments produced nearly 4x the greenhouse gas emissions of high-density alternatives, with research finding that doubling urban density can reduce carbon pollution from household travel by nearly half and residential energy use by > 1/3" theguardian.com/us-news/2021/a…
Glad to finally be learning that we all hate zoning laws
Since when do single-family home values go down upon construction of an adjacent mid-rise building? They dont though and we need a better compromise to meet the city's housing needs
"In today's Globe and Mail, planners, architects and developers lay out the failings of the City of Toronto's Mid-rise guidelines, which were meant to facilitate intensification and have, instead, become an urban design nightmare."
A 45-degree angular plane to transition onto low-rise neighborhoods. For what? theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/ar…
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If you don’t teach history, you erase history. We learned nothing about residential schools for a reason.
Alex Gascon retweeted
Did you know ONE underground parking spot can cost up to $160,000 to construct? Parking impacts us all, whether through costs of housing development, maintenance fees, or increased emissions. Learn more at our virtual public meetings on June 1-3: toronto.ca/parkingreview
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girls only want one thing and it's a walkable city with mixed use development
Tell Ontario to #Stopthe413, a destructive mega-highway that will pave over important farmland, forests, rivers and a section of the #ONGreenbelt. Sign today. #ONpoli act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/66231/act…
@BrentToderian felt this on an emotional level
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Stop asking candidates if they “believe in” climate change and start asking if they understand it. It’s science, not Santa Claus.
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