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About to go heads down for the next two days in an accelerator kick off but wanted to give an update ...🧵
First launch of Bucky today ! A first step in many launches to come, but if you're interested in building a home or homes, and are one of the many amazing people that is apart of making that process happen, then check out our first launch of Bucky.
Will be adding more details to this thread throughout the day as I get break. Thank you to everyone along the way.
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level headed take - why have we done nothing to promote the economic environment for people to have better fertility for longer, and make boost falling family sizes?
It's very much "we've tried nothing and run all out of ideas"
I understand this argument from @bruce_arthur, but I think it misses three important points.
1) We have barely tried to address falling fertility and delayed family formation. This is the real existential problem to focus on. We should not conclude this is an unsolvable problem.
2) Immigration is not a substitute for productivity growth and income growth. Both are necessary if we want to afford our system through aging population as well.
3) Canada’s systems (housing, infra) aren’t able to handle fast population growth and we’ve seen that play out over the last decade. Nothing about that has changed. The reforms have not happened.
I don’t understand the rush among so many centre-left thinkers to return to the old immigration consensus before we’ve really fixed anything or restored public trust.
Across the West, immigration has become one of the most politically divisive issues. Canada has largely avoided the worst of the ugly nationalism we’ve seen elsewhere, and I suspect that’s partly because Ottawa actually showed it was responding to public anger over a badly mismanaged file.
Why are we so eager to test it? Why risk turning immigration into the same political flashpoint here?
What is wrong with showing some moderation and restraint over the next few years while we unwind the failures of the last decade?
Demographic decline is existential over the next several decades, not the next few years. Ultimately, I find the logic of Bruce’s argument here to be naive and perhaps even irresponsible.
People starting to natively install the @bucky_build plugin and MCP as a way to signup is such a cool feeling. A lot to improve on the experience and feature set but great to give people the flexibility on how they want to interact with the platform
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Funny thing about technology
Musk demo'ed his fling car yesterday
My FSD tesla right now can't drive for 5 seconds on its own without my jerking the yoke
the experience is actually worse than some other shittier self driving that's not scanning your eyes (creepy btw) to see if you look at the road
So sad - even senior homes aren't safe from NIMBY's
L'arrondissement d'Ahuntsic-Cartierville se résigne à tuer un projet de conversion d'un ancien couvent en maison de retraite. Une pétition de NIMBYs forçant la tenue d'un référendum sur le changement de zonage a eu raison du projet. buff.ly/nr2CQVn
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“….The next time a proposal for new homes, gentle density, or supportive housing comes to your street, be the voice that speaks up in support. Welcoming new homes is how we bring people in from the cold…” - @ScottAAitchison on #YIMBY voices
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As you invite more agents to our work, and create software factories to be more productive than ever, you’ll soon outsource everything to an agent, even the thinking.
The work you will do will feel frictionless, it will feel amazing on the surface, but once you go a bit deeper, it’ll feel extremely shallow. It won’t reflect the struggles you went through, your decisions, and ideas.
It will no longer remind you of you and the work you aspire to.
You will turn into just another extremely efficient producer of things, but not a creator like you were before.
Invite friction to your work.
A lot can be explained by this
Crazy WSJ data. Between 2022 and 2025, wealth increased 37% for Americans 75 and older, while **decreased** 23% for people under 35.
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These timelines would have been so good to show Alberta's growth as a leader in housing.
@GrowTogetherYEG
How many development plans in Edmonton (or all of Alberta now that you know the province will roll back) just went up in smoke ?
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It’s honestly pretty upsetting to see this. Alberta seemed to be the one province in Canada genuinely offering young Canadians good job opportunities and housing affordability.
This decision will only lead to higher housing prices long term, which I suppose is great for existing owners but it’s just another example of governments pulling up the ladder of opportunity on the next generation.
Edmonton in particular was probably the only city in the country permissive enough to growth that demand would translate into new supply rather than higher prices, and ultimately this will change that.
It’s so frustrating because a lot of Canadians want growth and opportunity to make their lives better, but reject the change that comes when growth and opportunity actually occur. It’s a huge problem, and I’m not sure how we build a better country when so few are willing to accept minor inconveniences that benefit others enormously.
Ultimately, when I talk about our cultural and economic decline, it’s exactly this reasoning that is the culprit.
Over the past few months, endless Albertans have told us the same story.
They saved for years to buy a single family home on a quiet street. They picked that neighbourhood on purpose, because of the park at the end of the block or the school two streets over or the neighbours who watch out for each other.
Then one morning the house next door came down, with no notice, and later a 16 unit complex went up in its place, with nowhere for anyone to park and no consideration for the neighbourhood.
Those are not complaints. They are people describing the place they built a life in with their family.
So today we are acting. Edmonton will return to the density and height rules that were in place before 2024 and common sense minimum parking requirements, utility and water infrastructure considerations are coming back. Calgary will hold the line it set when it repealed blanket rezoning. Both cities will take a hard look at their bylaws and come back with something more balanced.
Alberta needs more homes. We are building more of them than almost anywhere in Canada. But a home is more than a house, and a neighbourhood is more than a supply of lots.
wow...craziest protection of existing home values I've seen.
BC province you have the province forcing upzoning, and cities/towns resisting, and Alberta you have forced roll backs
Over the past few months, endless Albertans have told us the same story.
They saved for years to buy a single family home on a quiet street. They picked that neighbourhood on purpose, because of the park at the end of the block or the school two streets over or the neighbours who watch out for each other.
Then one morning the house next door came down, with no notice, and later a 16 unit complex went up in its place, with nowhere for anyone to park and no consideration for the neighbourhood.
Those are not complaints. They are people describing the place they built a life in with their family.
So today we are acting. Edmonton will return to the density and height rules that were in place before 2024 and common sense minimum parking requirements, utility and water infrastructure considerations are coming back. Calgary will hold the line it set when it repealed blanket rezoning. Both cities will take a hard look at their bylaws and come back with something more balanced.
Alberta needs more homes. We are building more of them than almost anywhere in Canada. But a home is more than a house, and a neighbourhood is more than a supply of lots.
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the weekly product videos have begun
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These Committees need more oversight or should be abolished entirely. They’re made up of unqualified, unelected people who continually overstep their mandate, and there’s zero accountability.
The Committee of Adjustment process in Toronto is only as good as its members, and in Scarborough, it's a disgrace.
Every once in a while, a friend will text me to check out a recent hearing on YouTube. Today, it was for a six-storey apartment building proposed at 978 Pharmacy Ave., which is designated as a Major Street. As longtime followers will know, the City recently upzoned Major Streets to allow apartment buildings up to six storeys.
This proposal is on a constrained lot and required seven minor variances, which is typical. The variances were as follows:
1. Reduction in minimum front yard setback from 7.5m to 5.6m
2. Two dwelling units below established grade (though not actually below grade, due to the sloping lot)
3. Front-facing balconies encroaching into the front yard setback by 3.4m (1.5m is permitted)
4. Reduction in the required side yard soft landscaping strip from 1.5m to 0.4m (to accommodate a 1.1m walkway)
5. A visitor parking space in the front yard
6. A visitor parking space 0.0m from the main wall (3.0m is required)
7. Reduction in aisle width for bicycle parking from 2.5m to 1.8m
Let's set aside, for now, how insanely and unreasonably prescriptive our zoning bylaw is. The Committee is mandated to review these variances against the four tests. Its mandate is not to question City policy allowing midrise buildings on Major Streets.
If you want to see how it went, you can watch here from 1:10:30 to 2:50:27: youtube.com/live/dtWPoxZzpkM…
Total shit show. I want to highlight seven short clips.
