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Joined October 2012
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8 Mar 2025
I love this triple-decker triplex. The US should really do a similar design catalog to help local developers build more housing.
8 Mar 2025
Canada has released it's "Housing Design Catalogue" which includes 50 middle-housing designs from ADUs to six-plexes. Each design is developed by local teams to align with regional building codes, planning rules, climate zones, construction methods & materials. šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦ @CMHC_ca
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ā€œParks are not just for recreation; they are for rejuvenation and renewalā€ - Frederick Law Olmsted
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Replying to @Hrymrrr
The elevator requirement is a good reason not to go above four stories. You can still achieve great density with four story buildings, if you go wall to wall around the entire block.
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Rather than a single entry that leads to double-loaded corridors, courtyard blocks stack units around central staircases that serve no more than ten households each.
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single-stair 4-6 story buildings are key to creating condominium housing (with relative privacy, potential for yard access, and dual aspect units) that middle class families will prefer to detached SFH.
Replying to @UrbanCourtyard
Rather than a single entry that leads to double-loaded corridors, courtyard blocks stack units around central staircases that serve no more than ten households each.
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This 1.35-acre parking lot in Jersey City was sold for $54 MILLION (10 times its assessed value) and will become 603 rental units. And you all wonder why I absolutely despise surface parking lots in major cities—it's just land banking and a heavily subsidized land use.
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Recessed balconies are *just better* 69 apartments in Paris, by Itar Architectures
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Better Planning Network retweeted
7 Mar 2025
A city may be called great when the unity of its average buildings and streets would be regarded as landmarks nearly anywhere else.
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And in Ireland…
"I'm not saying that this is the panacea or solution to our housing crisis." John Cummins, Minister of State for Local Government and Planning, defends his proposal for garden cabins be exempt from planning laws to ease the housing crisis. #TonightVMTV
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7 Mar 2025
2023 Mayor heralds expansion of ULEZ saying results won't be clear for decades. 2025 he says everything is lovely backed up by the same scientists he paid to justify the expansion in the first place and tried to influence their findings at the time -bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lo…
7 Mar 2025
A new study shows that London boroughs that opposed the @MayorofLondon expansion of ULEZ (ultra low emission zone) have seen the largest reductions in a harmful air pollutant because of the policy Sir Sadiq Khan touts the ULEZ success and insists policy is not 'anti-car'
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Better Planning Network retweeted
5 Mar 2025
Despite a decade of opposition Santos are today drilling a huge coal seam gas corehole in the middle of the #Pilliga on private property. The pad has seen gradual changes over the last week Lot 1, DP 757126 #CSG #AUSpol Sentinel image 04/03/25
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Biodiversity offsets under the spotlight in #Narrabri. Our member group Wando Conservation Centre organised this important conference.
22 Feb 2025
The @WandoInc #Biodiversity Offsets Conference is underway at #Narrabri - so far this morning we have heard from Brendan Sydes @AusConservation @SueHigginson_ & Kristy Ruddock @EDOLawyers on the problems & consequences of offsets.
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Threatened species Ecologist Maria Matthes will be visiting Narrabri 22 Feb to talk about the way our planning system is failing #koalas. Coal mines already wiped out the #koala in Leard Forest. Evidence of habitation now absent since 2017.@talkingkoala @naturensw @nswdphi
27 Jan 2025
Replying to @NWPAdvocacy
5/9 ā€œ#Koalas cheated by inadequate legislation, inadequate ecological assessments, deceptive offsets, &power imbalances within planning processes: the problems, consequences, & what best practice should look likeā€ Maria Matthes @talkingkoala TSC Ecologist eventstudio.eventsair.com/bi…
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Yancoal wants to expand its Moolarben coal mine and clear habitat that's home to a climate change-resilient breeding colony of endangered koalas. The NSW Minns Government must reject this destructive mine. It must prioritise koalas over coal. au.news.yahoo.com/113-hectar…
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Easy to book. Note: attendance at the film is free, $35 to attend the BIODIVERSITY OFFSETS CONFERENCE on Saturday the following day. eventstudio.eventsair.com/bi…?

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10 years since the destruction of Leard Forest started, a special screening of Dujon Pereira’s feature length documentary BLACK HOLE is on Fri. 21 Feb at Crossing Theatre,Narrabri. Free entry. 0494183525 for info. #BlackHole #Gomeroi #Gamilaaray #BlakTwitter #biodiversityoffsets
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Did you know that mining companies can now buy biodiversity offsets to offset their offsets? The market-based tool intended to compensate for minings impact on nature leaves the wolf in charge of the hen house but don’t take our word for it šŸ‘€ for yourself ā¬‡ļø.
Our conference BIODIVERSITY OFFSETS: Problems & Consequences is supported by @naturensw and @NWPAdvocacy Check out our speakers and topics. Book your place to attend. nature.org.au/biodiversity_o…
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Replying to @SustPopAus
Australia should have stabilised its population over a decade ago. The Greens once supported stabilising our population at 22 million. What happened to them?
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Statistics & damned… When SMH quotes 28 322 Building approvals in last 12 months - is that ā€˜buildings’ or ā€˜dwellings’? Or is a 40 storey building with 100’s apartments same as 1 granny flat approval? Really tells you nothing. What matters anyway are real building completions…
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