Edmonton

Any one else excited for this?

Instead of worrying about overloaded systems, we should be celebrating the opportunity to make better use of the infrastructure our city has already built and paid for. That's not just good urban planning—it's good fiscal sense.

This dispels a lot of the misconceptions people have about infill development in the city. The complaints about sewage is something I hear a lot for the reason why we can't develop infill. I also wasn't aware of the population decline in the mature areas!

Blatchford and the Exhibition Lands redevelopment are important pieces of Edmonton's housing puzzle, but they're just pieces. Solving our housing crisis requires embracing density as a city-wide solution, not a problem to be contained in specific areas.

This makes sense. I hear a lot of pushback against other neighbourhoods taking on density and just putting everything in Blatchford, and Blatchford is a good reference for denser development, but the city as a whole needs to take on denser housing if the supply is to keep up with demand. This also goes for adding a few new towers downtown.

Many of the complaints are about parking and traffic, but if a majority of the infill is being built close to transit isn't that what we want? That would reduce the need for a vehicle and parking in the long run, and maybe some families could go down to only owning a single car at the very least? I still think we need more and better transit, but this is moving in the right direction.

As we head into summer, Edmonton has added new water stations to ease the heat.

New stations were added to Coronation Park and near Alex Taylor school downtown.