While I have had issues with the Planning department’s stats in Complete Communities, I do commend them for including a provision about...

With City staff promoting tear downs and lot-splits in any St. Vital pre-1960 area, including Kingston Cres, City planners’ new heritage...

One of the most questionable arguments made during the public engagement sessions on lot-splitting, was the question on the public...

Whatever the results of the City’s infill guidelines questionnaire (that closed yesterday), take it with a grain of salt. An anonymous...

Residents of St. Vital, The City of Winnipeg has produced draft Infill Guidelines, and is asking for public feedback. Residents have...

Every year the City’s capital budget provides millions of dollars to resurface decayed concrete back lanes. In the 2021-24 multi-year...

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...

In January 2020, City Council accepted the administrative report that no changes be made to the 1988 gravel lanes and roads policy. I had...

"We need this to combat climate change!" Is this justification for the proposed spread of automatic lot-splitting really the full story ?...

Before my election in 2011, City staff divided the City into “mature” and “new” communities. Since then, this has not been particularly...

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...

Another thought about the contrasts of Winnipeg’s lot-splitting plans with the approach of Calgary and Edmonton... Calgary’s website...

More thoughts on Edmonton and Calgary and densification... Edmonton’s infill strategy has been praised by many writers, but there is one...

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...

April 2017 Recently my colleague Matt Allard (St. Boniface) wrote a piece declaring himself as a proud “urbanist”.   An actual attempt to...