I did a comparable map for the Halifax peninsula out of curiosity

Change dot org petition to have articles mention the existence of the CAP. Tax bills for 80% of property owners rose 1.5% last year, not 5.2%

I’m in the Grand Parade this week — about an early look at how the HAF reforms are panning out

Unintentionally[?] brutal review IMO.

Good write up of Mayor Fillmore’s first year. And “good” as in it highlights the mayor’s lack of action on HRMs big issues of housing, transportation and austerity

Much more housing should be permitted in Halifax's South End specifically

So much of the housing crisis stems from politicians choosing to block housing and cause huge economic and societal damage in order to avoid “an ugly change” for rich people

Interesting piece on the stories behind CBU's international student boom substack.com/home/post/p-...

Why not property taxes?

Hey. Hi. Hello. In this Halloween Special , I continue HFX By Bike's annual tradition of trying to genuinely scare you using nothing but spreadsheets and graphs. This year it's all about the city's taxes and why it feels like Halifax can never get ahead. youtu.be/l8kCed6o4Bc

Do young people face higher shelter costs than their older compatriots? @lausterna.bsky.social and I look into this question and the underlying mechanisms that can lead to age disparities in shelter costs.

Not Just Bikes on the Ocean! 😬 youtu.be/c2MGauUIUNc?...

2009 -> 2025

Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.

New blog! open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/d...

Good piece. I would like to hear Frank Palermo’s take on what parts of Halifax’s heritage were protected by ER-1 zoning (which he defended during HAF)

Always disappointing to see urgent calls for climate action - and then equivocating on natural gas, even as it has clearly cut emissions in other places and can work very well in a renewable buildout. We still burn COAL. Smells to me like the ideological crusade trumps the climate concern

One year since Mayor Andy Fillmore’s election. What has been accomplished? -Useless debates about bike lanes 🚲 -Grovelling for Strong mayor powers ✊ -Nothing on enabling more housing 🏡

Would love to see this for Canada

New blog - on the stunning reversal going on at CBU open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/e...

"Haligonians are rightfully frustrated about traffic congestion. But the premier’s promise has pushed another 10,000 cars onto the roads, clogging up your commute. These 10,000 trips are trips that the drivers were previously not willing to pay a single dollar to make"

Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock

An extremely well placed right of way through the South End (rail cut) sends off one train a day to Ontario/Quebec

10% increase in traffic on already congested bridges. If you hate traffic, this has added over 10,000 vehicles per day, vehicles that clogging up the roads. Vehicles that *literally* weren’t willing to pay $1 to make their trip

Bridge traffic up 10% since tolls removed Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/transportati...

Very good, and convincing video on Montreal party politics. I'd like to see Halifax get parties into municipal politics, to bring more coherency and simplicity for voters

New blog! updating the numbers on a bad idea (pre-construction condos) open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/p...

New data: Population growth continues to slide in Nova Scotia, now down to 1% Y/Y

Halifax should and could be Canada’s most housing friendly city

The most underappreciated issue in urbanism is the Anglosphere’s transit construction cost problem. It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project. It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.

New blog! Talking about a small change that could help first time homebuyers in Nova Scotia open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/p...

Good demonstration of “studying as a replacement for action” form HRM. Someone is studying it, no one willing to put their name on it, and no one to explain why they missed a chance with the redevelopment to get more space

So who's writing Mayor Fillmore's first year in review? I see a bunch of dysfunction, begging for more power (to then do the *Good Things^tm), and no action on any of the crises (housing, traffic, fiscal)

My biggest pet peeve is acting like rents are a pure cost recovery pricing. Obviously not! Rents would not be this fucking high if you were just collecting costs + profit. There are excess returns out there, and I would expect higher property tax or utilities to not raise rents

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Really curious what the justification for RT-8 zoning is (duplex zoning in part of Kits). And why council and planning think this area is so precious that basically nothing, not even the most mundane SFH, can get built there without going through a kangaroo court of public opinion.

IMO we should close Agricola every Sunday

New Blog open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/s...

Buddies Quarterly zine edition 3 is up, here's my entry! You can download the whole thing for free at buddiesquarterly.gumroad.com. Sometimes it's time! 1/2

New blog! About self driving cars open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/s...

So upset that the city didn't buy even just the corner of that lot so they could finally fix that intersection.

Excellent free resource for geographers, urbanists, and planners. luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/...

New neighborhoods look bad because the trees haven’t grown yet

Monster start of the year for homebuilding in Halifax, apartments especially - beating last years record pace