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#15minuteCities

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Sustainable us<p>Reinventing the shopping mall.</p><p>It is incredibly ironic that in the US to make developments that were designed for the car economically viable, many are now being converted into mixed use developments that are straight out of the 15 minute city guide book!!!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/mall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/15minutecities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15minutecities</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/J1GIF6VNipE?si=2-_yLVH7TWgMWrm-" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/J1GIF6VNipE?si=2-_yLV</span><span class="invisible">H7TWgMWrm-</span></a></p>
Lyle Solla-Yates<p><a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/nm/api/individual/notice/5701.do" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">secure.toronto.ca/nm/api/indiv</span><span class="invisible">idual/notice/5701.do</span></a> “The Amendment would allow a broad range of retail, service and office uses on all Residentially zoned sites located on Major Streets. In the interior of the neighbourhoods, the location of commercial uses would be limited to corner sites, as well as sites adjacent to existing non-residential uses, such as schools and parks.” <a href="https://cville.online/tags/toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toronto</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/zoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zoning</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/15minutecities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15minutecities</span></a></p>
Lyle Solla-Yates<p>I also enjoyed <a href="https://cville.online/tags/albemarle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>albemarle</span></a> Planning Commissioner Julian Bivins’s characterization of public fears about permitting small corner stores and any possible sandwiches and the slippery slope to other tasty treats, for example some kind of soup. I summarized this as “sandwich fear” <a href="https://cville.online/tags/nimby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nimby</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/banana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>banana</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/sandwichfear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sandwichfear</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/15minutecities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15minutecities</span></a></p>
Larry Neufeld<p>For Canada, the 15-minute city is made trickier by sprawl <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/sprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sprawl</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/zoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zoning</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cities</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/15minutecities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15minutecities</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <br><a href="https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/october-2024/15-minute-cities-canada/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">policyoptions.irpp.org/magazin</span><span class="invisible">es/october-2024/15-minute-cities-canada/</span></a></p>
Stingray's Badger Friend<p>Response to <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/15MinuteCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>15MinuteCities</span></a> conspiracy spouted by the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/UKgovt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UKgovt</span></a> :</p><p>Moreno says they&#39;re “an urban policy for living with more healthy proximity to local jobs, local commerce, green areas, sports activities, cultural activities. This is a way to liberate our economy, liberating our ecology with more bikeability, more walkability. It is not, not, not a traffic plan.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Oxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Oxford</span></a> Council are responsible too, as they have badly communicated their plan to manage traffic.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/oct/07/15-minute-cities-rishi-sunak-tories-conspiracy-theory" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/cities/2023/oc</span><span class="invisible">t/07/15-minute-cities-rishi-sunak-tories-conspiracy-theory</span></a></p>
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