February 5, 2021
While I have had issues with the Planning department’s stats in Complete Communities, I do commend them for including a provision about...
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Bonivital Pool is getting major upgrades- $5.3M in the budget.
Bonivital Pool is a great, but ageing, amenity for St. Boniface and St.Vital. This pool modernization will complement the new Windsor Park library next door.
BrianMayes
City Councillor - Conseiller municipal
Saint-Vital
Inconsistencies regarding lot-splits: November 2,2020
With City staff promoting tear downs and lot-splits in any St. Vital pre-1960 area, including Kingston Cres, City planners’ new heritage...
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Musings on draft lot-split guidelines: October 26, 2020
One of the most questionable arguments made during the public engagement sessions on lot-splitting, was the question on the public...
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End of public input on the City's Infill Development Guidelines October 23, 2020
Whatever the results of the City’s infill guidelines questionnaire (that closed yesterday), take it with a grain of salt. An anonymous...
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Virtual Info-Session regarding the City’s draft infill guidelines
Residents of St. Vital, The City of Winnipeg has produced draft Infill Guidelines, and is asking for public feedback. Residents have...
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Winnipeggers invited to provide feedback on draft lot-split guidelines: October 22, 2020
Every year the City’s capital budget provides millions of dollars to resurface decayed concrete back lanes. In the 2021-24 multi-year...
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Winnipeggers invited to provide feedback on draft lot-split guidelines: October 21, 2020
The City's 311 received 9,000 complaints about gravel/ granular lanes and roads in less than 8 years (311 data). The St Vital ward had...
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Winnipeggers invited to provide feedback on draft lot-split guidelines: October 20, 2020
In January 2020, City Council accepted the administrative report that no changes be made to the 1988 gravel lanes and roads policy. I had...
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Winnipeggers invited to provide feedback on draft lot-split guidelines: October 16, 2020
"We need this to combat climate change!" Is this justification for the proposed spread of automatic lot-splitting really the full story ?...
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Winnipeggers invited to provide feedback on draft lot-split guidelines: October 15, 2020
Before my election in 2011, City staff divided the City into “mature” and “new” communities. Since then, this has not been particularly...
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Winnipeggers invited to provide feedback on draft lot-split guidelines: October 14, 2020
One of these streets is in St. Vita, City planners say it's a “grid street” where housing is past its useful lifespan and tear-downs and...
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Winnipeggers invited to provide feedback on draft lot-split guidelines: October 9, 2020
Another thought about the contrasts of Winnipeg’s lot-splitting plans with the approach of Calgary and Edmonton... Calgary’s website...
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Winnipeggers invited to provide feedback on draft lot-split guidelines: October 8, 2020
More thoughts on Edmonton and Calgary and densification... Edmonton’s infill strategy has been praised by many writers, but there is one...
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Infill Housing Myths & Realities
March 2019 There continues to be a great deal of debate at City Hall and in the media about infill housing. It is worth commenting on the...
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Thoughts on Urbanism & Community
April 2017 Recently my colleague Matt Allard (St. Boniface) wrote a piece declaring himself as a proud “urbanist”. An actual attempt to...
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