Toronto municipal policy wonk, engineer, urbanist, father. Consider donating to effective charities: https://www.givewell.org/https://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mmcqffmuts2zMy fun take away from this. In addition to changing the rules so that the amount of groundwater that can enter storm sewers is now >0, we are raising the amount of manganese allowed in storm water runoff from ridiculously low based on nothing to semi-arbitrary but higher. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 May 2026 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcqffmuts2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mmcmjctg4k2zHahahahahaha. We compared to the transit agency with the worst costs on the planet and found that our numbers were in the same ballpark so it's ok. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 May 2026 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcmjctg4k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mmcibm4pkc2zThe battles over multiplexes rage on with rearguard actions to increase their costs. Last month it was studying adding design requirements for multiplexes (but of course not single family houses). This month it's trying to increase by-law scrutiny of multiplexes (but of course not SF houses).20 May 2026 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcibm4pkc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mmcbzzr4rs2zIs this a bit? Where is Perruzza always driving during council meetings? [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 May 2026 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcbzzr4rs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mmcbs4uyk22zCouncillor Ainslie introduced an item to study adding parking minimums back to Scarborough. @stoneape314.bsky.social and I wrote in to oppose. Hoping council quashes this right away. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 May 2026 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcbs4uyk22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mmc5jxgjc22zSuburban councillors demanding to NIMBY downtown as well as their own wards. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 May 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmc5jxgjc22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mm5wuejt6k2dAt an Impossible Toronto panel discussion during the winter I mentioned that my stacked townhouse complex was as close to a courtyard development as we get here in Toronto but that nobody used the courtyard (except me and my daughter). Here we are, beautiful day in May. No one around. I don't get it18 May 2026 22:37 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5wuejt6k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mm5tigv3zk2dI don't where the election will land in terms of themes, but I think Lorinc is on the right track. For so many problems, the city needs to remember how to do the things it says it will do. Much more correct than say an austerity framing. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/why-does-it-take-so-long-for-the-city-of-toronto-to-get-things-done-first-they-need-to-admit-theres-a-problem/article_a340326e-3937-46d6-8450-22256677694d.html18 May 2026 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5tigv3zk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mm4tc5hwc22dThe biggest thing Bradford has going for him is he doesn't have full name recognition yet. The biggest thing Chow has going for her is she's absolutely destroying among the people who actually vote in municipal elections.18 May 2026 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4tc5hwc22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mm3cx4hbo22xBehold the advanced rail maintenance practices of a nominally developed country17 May 2026 21:35 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm3cx4hbo22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mm32ofxkhk2nThis spring I feel extra sensitive to all the detritus left in the public realm in Toronto. Old signs, abandoned fencing, sliced bags of gravel and sand. And so. Many. Cones.17 May 2026 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm32ofxkhk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mm2yctitjs2nThe 504 doesn't short turn anymore. It just changes from 504A to 504B with no announcement17 May 2026 18:25 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2yctitjs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mm2l7gdxrc2nParc LaFontaine is really nice and a good memorial to a founder of responsible government in Canada. Celebration of Baldwin was suppressed by Toronto's Tory establishment in the 19th/early 20th centuries. We should give him a proper public space.17 May 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2l7gdxrc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mm2aqpoia22nMy least favourite part of Toronto municipal politics is that there is no policy depth at all. This is it from the right. There's no conservative out there with a coherent attempt to grapple with traffic. Not TRBOT, not Bradford, not ABC. It's just layer after layer of dumb vibes.17 May 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2aqpoia22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mlyxsdowpk2eTrip back solo with 4 year old. So of course we're stuck for 45 minutes behind a broken GO train in Scarborough. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 May 2026 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyxsdowpk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mlybvpmflc2eHappened to take the REM today on my visit to Montreal. Didn't realize a new branch was opening (which I didn't see, oops) and was extremely confused why the train seemed to be packed with people who were visibly foamers.16 May 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlybvpmflc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mly2ezve2k2eIs it just me or have the first two weeks of councillor candidate registrations in Toronto been really slow?16 May 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mly2ezve2k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mlvqupvbwk23I am pretty impressed with the change in road treatment on Avenue Pierre-De Coubertin since the last time I visited Olympic park. My photo isn't doing it justice. Turning an overly wide right of way into a nice place to stroll and bike.15 May 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvqupvbwk23https://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mlv7rrigx226Bill 98 passed its third reading yesterday. Ontario will have a province wide minimum lot size cap in urban areas (likely 175m2). And Official Plan overhauls are coming. We'll see what the regs say about Site Plan Control but possibly goodbye shadow studies.15 May 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlv7rrigx226https://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mltohiscb223Some @shawnmicallef.bsky.social concrete porn at our hotel.14 May 2026 20:40 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltohiscb223https://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mltjxaelm223State of the art pedestrianization technology in old Montreal. Does Toronto transportation services know about this?!? Would be a game changer.14 May 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltjxaelm223https://bsky.app/profile/damienmoule.bsky.social/post/3mlr3w7dcuc26The RAs are sending out messages to moms groups to encourage them to show up the OLT to oppose changing some school sites to the Avenues designation and like.. what kind of strategy is this? Non-technical input from members of the public won't change the OLT decision. It will annoy them.13 May 2026 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:pcngsvtydkygeokpd652qpsq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlr3w7dcuc26