Urban Sprawl

• ‘It’s really quite appalling’: More Calgary suburban development being considered

  The growth strategy that goes to a city committee on Monday says over the 2023 to 2026 period, Calgary‘s population is expected to grow by 88,000 people.

  Economy

  Jun 26
  
• ‘On squishy ground’: The controversial highway the Ford government wants to build

  Opponents of a proposed four-lane highway north of Toronto are voicing their concern over the environmental impacts of a road some say will be built ‘in the middle of nowhere.’

  Canada

  May 28
  
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• ‘We just turn them down’: The quiet battle to stop sprawl from paving over rural Ontario

  How some advocates are fighting hard to prevent low-density suburban sprawl from destroying more of Canada’s prime agricultural land.

  Canada

  May 27
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• 30-storey tower proposed for Saskatoon Nutana neighbourhood

  The building would be the tallest in the city and would be located one block away from Broadway Avenue, across from a community garden.

  Canada

  Apr 19
• Hamilton’s share of millions to speed housing development approvals ‘not going to hurt’

  Hamilton's mayor and a land use lawyer say $45million to speed up housing approvals will help, but it won't solve the complex multi-government affordable housing crisis.

  Politics

  Jan 20
• Petition to stop sprawl making its rounds in Simcoe County

  The petition calls for the planning of communities in which residents are able to access all their essential needs by walking no more than 15 minutes.

  Canada

  Oct 26, 2021
• Suburbs fuel rise in housing completions, construction, CMHC says

  CMHC said that the number of homes in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver ready for tenants owners has begun soaring the farther one is from those city's centres.

  Canada

  Feb 15, 2021
• Developers to ask Calgary council to add 11 new suburb neighbourhoods

  Calgary city administration is recommending against the approval of the neighbourhoods at a committee meeting Monday.

  Consumer

  Oct 14, 2020
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• More workers using cars to commute as urban sprawl grows in Montreal: study

  About 100,000 commuters from the municipalities bordering Greater Montreal commute to work in the city every day, a recent study found.

  Canada

  Jan 7, 2020
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• Push for Okanagan’s first cohousing development is on

  A living concept that started in Denmark in the 1960s is being pushed in the Okanagan.

  Mar 4, 2019