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May 8
1 min

Urban Boundaries & Missing Middle Buildings

I was around in the 1980's in Ottawa and was Chair of Ecovision when, we as a city started including the future operating costs that woul...

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Development Process, Easing the Burden and Costs for Small Developments

Christoph Jalkotzy

Oct 2, 2018
2 min

Development Process, Easing the Burden and Costs for Small Developments

Over the past couple of months I have managed to help a small developer make an application to the Committee of Adjustment that reduced t...

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Reimagining the Inner City Residential Suburb

Christoph Jalkotzy

Apr 13, 2018
4 min

Reimagining the Inner City Residential Suburb

There is a huge opportunity for small sustainability minded investors and residents of inner city residential neighbourhoods to collabora...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

Feb 28, 2018
1 min

One Building 3 looks

Same building, 3 different looks. Want traditional, here is a look that might interest you Want Art Deco ee, this might meet your tastes ...

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Social Sustainability, A Village in the City

Christoph Jalkotzy

Feb 21, 2018
5 min

Social Sustainability, A Village in the City

Social Sustainability, It takes a Village Distributed Social Services Chris Jalkotzy, City Villages Summary Issues Unfortunately, governm...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

Feb 21, 2018
1 min

Small Apartment Buildings

The Missing Middle City Villages has now completed small rental residential building designs the fit into all residential neighbourhoods....

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Loblaws Site Going to Planning Committee, Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Christoph Jalkotzy

May 19, 2017
2 min

Loblaws Site Going to Planning Committee, Tuesday, May 23, 2017

In my last post, I did not note that the building had changed from a senior's building to an apartment building. This is a welcome change...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

May 4, 2017
2 min

Housing GTA unaffordable....Baby Boomers are staying in their Single Family Home.....There are more

Wow, the number of stories that have been generated by one Stats Canada report and the low supply of single family homes in the GTA. Stor...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

Apr 16, 2017
2 min

Updating Loblaws Superstore Site Post

This post updates an older post with new information. I am adamantly against the character of the current "seniors residential building" ...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

Dec 29, 2016
2 min

Let's Plan Together

I am very excited about 2017. For 35 years I have been learning about the way our human race functions. Everything from how we create phy...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

Jun 13, 2016
0 min

Video one idea for the Superstore

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Christoph Jalkotzy

May 16, 2016
1 min

Superstore proposed rezoning

I went to the open house for the proposed rezoning for the property south of the Loblaws Superstore in Westboro because they were suggest...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

Apr 18, 2016
4 min

More details to the Housing the Elderly

Housing the Elderly, a new model that addresses not only the elderly but also affordability for the younger first time home buyer as well...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

Apr 14, 2016
2 min

Alternative to "as per plans presented"

Both the Committee of Adjustment and the approval process for rezoning applications has become less about what is required by the Ontario...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

Apr 10, 2016
2 min

The New Model for Young & Old

Many aspects of a new approach to housing the elderly have now been developed. There are a significant benefits to design buildings that ...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

Mar 31, 2016
1 min

evolving concept

The model for elderly housing has initially focused on people over 60 years old. As well, we were looking at small scale infill, primaril...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

Mar 31, 2016
2 min

warehousing the elderly

When I started looking for my downsizing options, I decided to look into the housing statistics relating to people over 60 years old. We ...

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Christoph Jalkotzy

Mar 24, 2016
2 min

history of City Villages

This blog will be about how City Villages came to be, the evolution of the philosophy behind City Villages and then how City Villages doe...

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