City Villages

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 would come from capital ...

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

There is a huge opportunity for small sustainability minded investors and residents of inner city residential neighbourhoods to collaborate in the full redev...

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

Social Sustainability, It takes a Village Distributed Social Services Chris Jalkotzy, City Villages Summary Issues Unfortunately, governments are currently o...

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

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. Hopefully the buil...

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

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 physical environments, ...

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

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

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

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

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