Gregg Lintern
@gregglintern.bsky.social
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Toronto’s Chief Planner from 2017 to 2023
My recent interview on changes happening in Canadian cities
open.spotify.com/episode/0L0v...
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Development priorities in Canadian cities and a decade of co-operation in Cascadia
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0L0vVAgbeCNbuYkCs843qh?si=EQpphkSRTcqUjad0cl_ruw&t=649&ct=649
15 days ago
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Caught this leaving Houston - Tell me without telling me that, for some, a new stadium surrounded by a sea of parking is a little bit of heaven
4 months ago
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Meanwhile in Canada … 🇨🇦
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4 months ago
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Chocolate making in the heart of Toronto - every city should have a golden ticket
5 months ago
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South Beach North, Toronto (Etobicoke/Mimico) 🇨🇦
5 months ago
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“…aligning financial feasibility with social value” for “a city that functions best when it responds to (all) the diverse needs of its residents” is the intergenerational moment for Toronto
storeys.com/toronto-hous...
The Crisis We Needed? Rethinking Housing In A Post-Speculation Market
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The Crisis We Needed? Rethinking Toronto Housing In A Post-Speculation Market
Delays, cancellations, and a market in flux may feel like crisis — but for those shaping the city, this could be a generational opportunity.
https://storeys.com/toronto-housing-crisis-rethink-opportunity/
7 months ago
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Winnipeg ✈️ 🇨🇦👇
9 months ago
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Goal line approaching - final finishing inside and out & now leasing
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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Toronto “returned to office” looking more likely
10 months ago
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Redefining “office” through a community & hotel concierge lens to compete with work from home
10 months ago
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Is there one place that explains both USMCA trade rules & current 🇨🇦🇺🇸 tariffs on all goods & services & importantly the volume of trade by category of good or service so that one might judge the facts against the myths & judge the comparative impact of any new tariffs between old friends?
11 months ago
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Both practices of leaders & nations down through history - which appeals to the better angels of our nature? Trade: is the exchange of goods and services between parties for mutually beneficial purposes. Extortion: practice of obtaining something through force or threats.
11 months ago
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America: scenes from your Canadian cousins today
11 months ago
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Progress looks like this from July ‘24 to February ‘25 for this Toronto infill - 4 storey, 6 rental homes & 1 commercial unit
12 months ago
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Buying “Canadian” product that says it’s made with domestic and imported products, is labelled “Alaskan”, melts ice faster than salt, in metric & bilingual of course - seems like next level patriotism 🇨🇦
12 months ago
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The only further consultation you need on updating Toronto’s Avenues policies: Just talk to your kids, your extended family, friends and employees or coworkers to hear how they struggle to find financially attainable homes to rent or own in Toronto
secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
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Agenda Item History 2025.PH18.5
Agenda Item History 2025.PH18.5
https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.PH18.5
12 months ago
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A 🇨🇦 rally might exercise some emotional energy - to help keep the country together, this one almost 30 years ago in Montreal
12 months ago
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Best Canadian made Bourbon? asking for my friends 🇨🇦
about 1 year ago
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The lack of well planned transportation alternatives including frequent high speed rail within dense urban regions contributes to overtaxing the demand for airport capacity, airports which might function better (and more safely) if longer distance travel needs were met in priority
about 1 year ago
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Objections included impact on “community integrity”; wouldn’t providing more local housing options actually improve community integrity ?
www.thestar.com/real-estate/...
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A proposed fourplex in Etobicoke was rejected after opposition from more than 40 neighbours
More than 40 households opposed the proposal, which sought to build larger than current rules allow.
https://www.thestar.com/real-estate/a-proposed-fourplex-in-etobicoke-was-rejected-after-opposition-from-more-than-40-neighbours/article_0e359d3e-d8fd-11ef-9fdb-1355603c161c.html
about 1 year ago
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Toronto’s inner suburbs: more housing choice for more people in more places
www.thestar.com/news/gta/two...
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Two years after the city allowed four-unit multiplexes in residential neighbourhoods, staff want to test sixplexes in this Toronto ward
The plan would see sixplexes allowed as a right, a move welcomed by Scarborough North Councillor Jamaal Myers as a way to ‘densify gently and over time.’
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/two-years-after-the-city-allowed-four-unit-multiplexes-in-residential-neighbourhoods-staff-want-to/article_5e222914-d4ef-11ef-ae9f-3743ac761081.html
about 1 year ago
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x.com/gregglintern...
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https://x.com/gregglintern/status/1881914852416819386?s=12
about 1 year ago
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Thinking
@bsky.app
is like vaping after giving up cigarettes on that other place (X) / relaxing with less side effects
about 1 year ago
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Building more homes in Toronto: permissive zoning ✅ eliminate charges✅ align financing options ✅
lanewayhousingadvisors.com/2025/01/cmhc...
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CMHC releases details on mortgage refinancing to build secondary suites – garden suites and laneway houses – Laneway Housing Advisors
https://lanewayhousingadvisors.com/2025/01/cmhc-releases-details-on-mortgage-refinancing-to-build-secondary-suites-garden-suites-and-laneway-houses/
about 1 year ago
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“urban planners are not merely neutral technicians but are embedded in complex political environments.” Or as I liked to say “read the room”. Great piece by Jason Syvixay
www.canadianarchitect.com/reimagining-...
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Reimagining Urban Leadership
There’s often a chasm between what urban planners envision and what is actually realized. Many plans, no matter how meticulously crafted, remain unfulfilled, leading to a cognitive dissonance between ...
https://www.canadianarchitect.com/reimagining-urban-leadership/
about 1 year ago
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Here in Canada it’s called a “double double” - from a duplex to a fourplex or homes for four households
about 1 year ago
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44 homes via Toronto’s modular construction supportive housing initiative / Almost 4 years old and part of the neighbourhood
about 1 year ago
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Seeing this from i395 in Miami the other day made me wonder what the transportation plan is for such a car dependent city - well it appears to include decking over an existing highway - is this headed in the wrong direction?
i395-miami.com/project-rend...
about 1 year ago
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Sign of the times for Toronto (thanks Miami)
about 1 year ago
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Congratulations
@jasonthorne.bsky.social
on your appointment as Toronto’s next Chief Planner !
about 1 year ago
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Downtown Toronto - office occupancy trend together with recently published transit station usage approaching or exceeding pre COVID levels are good signs of recovery; sustained social & economic headwinds still a challenging reality for so many
about 1 year ago
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Share your city’s wild side … Toronto’s High Park
about 1 year ago
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Kudos to
@thekeenanwire.bsky.social
for gaining a direct perspective from the city planner wrestling with the reality of neighbourhood building through “expectations and influence with only so much authority”
www.thestar.com/real-estate/...
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Will a rebuilt Golden Mile be a thriving neighbourhood? That might be up to our kids
City staff are trying to ensure a walkable community with local businesses, but 'we are city builders without shovels.'
https://www.thestar.com/real-estate/will-a-rebuilt-golden-mile-be-a-thriving-neighbourhood-that-might-be-up-to-our/article_20b716e6-8c8f-11ef-a0b9-9fed8b3b5162.html
about 1 year ago
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Mid rise under construction in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood - updated guidelines being advanced will increase the new home potential of future projects along the city’s mixed use main streets and avenues
about 1 year ago
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What we call the yellow belt in Toronto has great potential to be golden for housing.
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about 1 year ago
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Conspiracies about 15 minute cities? Looks like everyone bought in to a little convenience in their lives. Circles on the map show 5 minute walk time and 10 minute cycle time.
about 1 year ago
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Toronto’s “The Well” - residential, office, retail & restaurants and public spaces under an open air galleria (with a deep lake-water cooling system!)
about 1 year ago
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An increasingly rare sight - office building construction in Toronto - yet in cities well served by both regional and local transportation networks, access to diverse and dispersed labour markets still presents a locational advantage for downtowns
about 1 year ago
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From an urbanists pov, nothing better than a jam packed Toronto subway car at 11:30 pm
about 1 year ago
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Housing - Not just about “more supply”
@briandoucet.bsky.social
unpacks the complexity of the housing system, root causes & transformative solutions at the 32nd Annual Waterloo Planning Alumni Dinner in Toronto
about 1 year ago
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Steady return to Toronto’s downtown office occupancy
about 1 year ago
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A Toronto heritage moment
about 1 year ago
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It really all comes down to what kind of Toronto we want for the 21st century - bikes and cars are just vehicles on streets - but famously Ontario Premier Bill Davis said in 1971 that “the streets belong to the people” after saying “we are building a transportation system to serve people …”
about 1 year ago
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What’s going on? Everyone I see as I walk around in Downtown Toronto right now is bejeweled?
about 1 year ago
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Anishnawbe Health Toronto on Cherry Street in the West Don Lands
about 1 year ago
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Tower bridge Toronto
about 2 years ago
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4 storey South Rosedale apartment buildings vintage, with additions & newly built
about 2 years ago
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Signs surround square at Yonge & Dundas in Toronto
about 2 years ago
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Buy someone flowers today
about 2 years ago
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Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown looking transit ready
about 2 years ago
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