I’m still buzzing after another successful Pride weekend! I hope you were able to come out to the Village and stop by my booth this past weekend. I hope you and your family will be able to take a bit of a breather–despite the humidity–to enjoy the summer. My staff is hard at work planning future events, including a new set of neighbourhood town halls, for the fall, so if I hope I can see you out in the ward later this year.
At this past City Council, we provided direction on the future of sixplexes – “missing middle” housing consisting of buildings with up to four storeys and six units – in Neighbourhoods across the City. This was personally a very frustrating debate at City Council, and while there were some positives, a majority of my colleagues rejected sixplexes in their neighbourhoods. Beyond what that says for how we plan our City, it means that we are potentially walking away from tens of millions dollars in federal money under the Housing Accelerator Fund by refusing to advance sixplexes City-wide.
