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Luke at Aryze

@TalktoARYZE

2 years

Japan does wood buildings better then we do.

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Luke at Aryze

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1 year

This is the new "single family" home. Legalize it, everywhere.

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Holy moly, Iran’s design scene has detailing on Expert Mode 🤯

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Tehran’s brick game is so much better then anywhere else. These facades are totally incredible.

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2 years

My urbanist dream, one of these on every street corner 🤤

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1 year

We took one old house and turned it into twelve gorgeous new ones.

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2 years

In Sweden, dense new housing proposals are encouraged to be in the most high value places like waterfronts so that more people get to enjoy the natural and built amenities of the city. Density can be democratic!

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2 months

Holy smokes, what a building. Detailed facades like this belong on every single corner 🤩

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2 years

This is Denmark’s next king and the next king after him and the little brother who will just be a prince…In a cargo bike on their way to a running event. This picture is probably as Danish as it gets😂

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2 years

When your urban commute is walkable, you get life hacks like coffee on the way to work, beer on the way home 🥳

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9 months

Before: Some paint on the ground After: Access building, climate championing, city thriving infrastructure Build it!

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5 months

The City of Port Angeles has released a series of designs that are free, pre-approved, and range from studios to townhouses of 480sf to 2600sf. They also waive the building permit fees to encourage uptake and affordability. Go Port Angeles! This is the way.

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1 year

Legalize traditional wooden dovetail duplexes everywhere.

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9 months

Homepage of ⁦ @CNN ⁩ rn This is the result of years and years of so many people fighting for awareness and reforms Change is coming friends 🥳

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2 years

Is this what “balance” looks like? Asking for a friend

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2 years

A one bedroom came up at Ross Terrace. In 48 hours, we had 442 emails for the home. The next time some academic writes their opinion on housing and how we don’t need more supply I am going to forward them 442 emails that they can respond to.

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Luke at Aryze

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2 years

I first met @Dave_Eby while working on Tiny Town. We needed gov’t partners that were willing to take bold steps He came through, supported us with permits and $ to rapidly house 30 people living in tents. He's a guy of action and I am supporting as our next premier. #bcpoli

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1 year

Legalize tea shops on every street corner

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10 months

When reality is better then the rendering. 4 homes, zero parking, 1750sf lot. Boom💪🏽

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In 2018 we took there two very old homes that were slated for demo and barged them to a new lot and fully restored them. We called them the Two Sisters 😍

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1 year

In 2019, we bent, twisted, contorted the zoning bylaws to build this gorgeous multi-generational home where the grand parents/kids swap when the grand kids reach a certain age. These types of homes keep the character(s) of the neighbourhood and facilitate long term community 🥳

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Legalize simple, beautiful, mid-block buildings everywhere 🤩

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Legalize arched townhouses, everywhere 🤩

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1 year

If your zoning doesn’t allow low-rise mass timber apartments by right, your zoning bylaw is broken.

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2 years

What do we think about pitched roof mid-rise? Not super common on the west coast but perhaps these building forms would bridge the design/density gap a bit more?

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11 months

This is my favorite building in Vancouver. It has everything a building needs: human scale, durability, mixed use, and most of all, a freaking gorgeous entrance. If we built these all over our cities, we could protect more nature, combat environmental and social inequalities…

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5 months

Jericho Lands, Vancouver: 13,000 gorgeous, sustainable homes by First Nations led developer partnership. This is the way.

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9 months

The success metric of urban infrastructure is simple. It has to enable this:

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2 years

YYJ biking cult out in full force this morning 😍 kids > cars

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8 months

Daaaaaayyyyuuuuummmm Mass timber facade goals!!!!

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1 year

In 2020, we turned a vacant lot into six missing middle homes with one of the main project goals of delivering architectural high design to the masses.

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1 year

@Historian_Matt Consumer choice! Not every home has to be designed for every segment of the population

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Less is more 😍

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1 year

As of January 26, 2023 exclusive single family zoning in Victoria, BC, Canada is over.

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1 year

Legalize flower selling corner stores like The Birdcage on every street corner. These urban bodegas are the foundation of a 15 minute city. They are the neighbourhood 😍

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1 year

We turned 3 homes into 64 rental homes ✔️ 100% not exceeding 30% of income ✔️ 25% geared to low/mod incomes ✔️ 18 parking stalls ✔️ 6500sf daycare ✔️ Park + playground expansion ✔️ Friends themed 😁 Density works. This is the way.

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9 months

This is the new single family home. It’s the next iteration of a neighbourhood and it will help with our social, environmental, and economic goals. Legalize it.

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5 months

Single stair magic: - 6,000sf lot (50 x 120) - 6 x 3 bedroom homes - 2 x 1 bedroom homes - 92% efficiency @ 1.5 FSR - Rooftop deck 🏗️💪🏽

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26 days

This is what peak transportation sounds like 🔊

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6 months

Proof that less is more: An otherwise simple building with one bold move Cheers to this crazy modern bay window

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8 months

Dear professor, please accept my submission for an OCP complaint, 4 storey net zero rental next to a transit exchange, rec centre, and two town centres: Time: 1193 days, 6 submissions and 1838 staff hours Re-designs: $536,000 Delays: $12,837,000 If not red tape, then WHAT? 😵‍💫

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Focusing on government “red tape” is an old neoliberal move. It’s standard fare for the Conservative Party, going back to the 1980s, and it can be politically useful. 3/18

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Luke at Aryze

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4 months

Oh boy. Japanese designers know how to do mass timber interiors waaaaay better then we do 🤩

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Luke at Aryze

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3 months

Does anybody know how to do cabins better then the Fins 🇫🇮

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Luke at Aryze

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4 months

How does urbanism solve climate change? Allow employment, living, and shopping to be in the same area. Then connect these areas with other areas by walk, bike, and bus pathways. Easy, healthy, and beautiful!

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Luke at Aryze

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Zoning is such an archaic tool that isn’t geared for modern challenges and it doesn’t account for the latest body of research on cities. I proposed a new methodology called the Proximity Based Zone 🤓 You take a basket of urban amenities like childcare, employment, grocer etc…

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8 months

This is peak urban living. Courtyard apartment in a gorgeous city with transit, roof top decks, ground floor cafe, public spaces, and ocean swimming at your door step.

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Luke at Aryze

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1 year

We took one home and turned it into six. This is what missing middle housing in the wild looks like 😍

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6 months

Now that is how you do cast-in-place concrete…DAAAYYYUUUUMMMM 🤩

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This home office is way better then yours 🤤

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In Japan my dream street office is like a basic building on every block of every street and it kills me these mixed use buildings are illegal in North America.

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We took one home and turned it into four with no parking and added car share. This is what climate action looks like.

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This, should be your neighbourhood character 😍

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9 months

Hot dang! The Atyrau bridge in Kazakhstan shows that when you choose to put design at the forefront, you can create an icon that draws people in. It’s not just people crossing over water, it’s public space, identity, art, and mobility wrapped together 😍

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1 year

Japan does wood buildings better then we do volume 2 🏗️🌲

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6 months

Developer, Architect, Structural Engineer, Surveyor

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11 months

New designs for our downtown rental project: - 91 homes - 2 EV carshare spots + memberships - 0 parking stalls - 202 bike stalls with the best bike room - Artwork of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dye, the original grocery store owners - Stunning architecture This is the way.

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Luke at Aryze

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We took two homes and turned them into twenty-two townhouses. From proposal to occupancy was five years because zoning isn’t designed for these kinds of homes. We need to legalize housing and make ‘missing middle’ the norm. This is the way!

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In Victoria, if your drive yourself to work, you are in the minority (44%). The majority of residents bus, walk, or bike. Advocating for slower and safer streets for pedestrians and cyclists is not a shadow cabal, it’s the majority of the population and it’s healthy.

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Hot dang the Danes know how to mix cafes and public parks 🤩

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Legalize gorgeous, brick courtyard infill housing 🫶🏽

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The definition of “detached” housing can change. There doesn’t need to be a moat of ornamental grass. We can make detached housing compact and beautiful like Oak Park Housing in Sacramento 😍

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5 months

Facade goals 🤩

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Luke at Aryze

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2 years

My dear friend, partner, pizza eater and one of the best ppl I've ever known has passed away this weekend at home 😭 I've never met a sharper mind, gracious spirit, or dedicated friend Some day I'll dig deep and write a thread on Ryan but I don't have it in me yet Fuck cancer.

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Great cities need more cyan/yellow colored hotels 🤩

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1 year

Urbanism hot take: a city can never have too many bakeries.

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5 months

This is a big deal! There is no need to cover up such a gorgeous, flame resistant material like a mass timber panel.

Ravi Kahlon

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Another important step - finding ways to build differently. ✅ Today, we announced proposed changes to the BC Building Code to enable taller #MassTimber buildings, from the current limit of 12-storeys... To as many as 18-storeys! Or 9-storeys without encapsulation! 🙌🏾 🧵[1/3]

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9 months

Cedar Hill golf course: Area: 133 acres Build: 63 apartments (6s each) New Non-Market Homes: 3780 People Affordably Housed: 7500-8000 Site Coverage: 11 acres (8%) Area left for the best programmed urban park ever: 122 acres (92%) Golf courses can do so much more for our cities!

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Better is possible.

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Neighborhood level retail is a critical part of creating compact communities which support a city’s climate strategy. It also adds a ton of vibrancy, check out the Tauricho area of Nara, Japan 😍 Legalize it!

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Parking. It costs a lot. Underground stall breakdown ($): GenC- 757k ExCon- 402k Concrete- 3.45m Thermal- 120k Mech- 300k Electrical- 210k Earthwrks- 1.4m Misc + Contingency- 705k Total: $7.42m Per square foot- $262.56 Per stall- $85,286 Yup, same as a home in 1970 😵‍💫

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If your design guidelines and zoning don’t allow this as-of-right, your policies are broken.

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2 years

The Danes do courtyard housing so much better then we do.

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I am in love with our new James Bay project. This is the kind of compact, low-rise housing form that will lead our city into a more sustainable future 😍

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9 months

Iran’s texture game in architecture right now is 🤯

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2 years

896 days & 1549 staff hours to get 18 townhouses, 100% compliant with the Official Community Plan through the rezoning process. The process is broken 😵‍💫

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3 years

Morning commuter thoughts: Car: These stupid bike lanes make me wait 44 seconds extra Cyclist: I hope this car doesn't kill me I hope this truck doesn't kill me I hope this suv doesn't kill me I hope this bus doesn't kill me I hope this door swing doesn't kill me wow deer!

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2 years

G&M letters are toasty this morning 🔥

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10 months

This is what a city, neighbourhood, block, street should look like. Diversity is strength.

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I’ll take an order of more curved brick buildings please 🤩

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1 year

From a tweet to full page cover spread in the @globeandmail , the most read newspaper in Canada. Yes Twitter has faults, but this website is also pretty amazing.

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We took one old house and turned it into twelve gorgeous new ones.

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2 years

902 👏🏽 Has 👏🏽 Been 👏🏽 Approved 👏🏽 Thank you to Council who supported this 7/2 in favor 🥳 Thank you to all those community members who supported us along the way 😘 Come by Hide + Seek at our office at 9am @ 1839 Fairfield Rd for a coffee and donut on us and say hi 👋

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Just signed a $4.5m construction loan at 68% LTC and an effective rate of 6.45% 🤢 If it didn't take 1129 days to rezone, our rate would have been 2.85% and 80% LTC which would have meant a lower ROR for the lender which would have translated into lower prices for buyers. Lame.

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The Swiss🇨🇭know how to do a gorgeous concrete bridge 🤩

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MOAR single stair magic: - 1,749sf lot (34 x 51ft) - 2 x 2 bedroom homes - 2 x Work/Live homes - 96% efficiency @ 2.97 FSR - Zero Parking - Rooftop deck 🏗️🚀

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@the_transit_guy Got the same comments when I posted a picture of a bike lane in a park in Denmark. You know those Danes, all hammer and sickle 😵‍💫

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In 2020 we finished this 27 unit rental building. Final #'s Hard Cost: $5.3m Interest: $247k Equity: $2.27m If Built Today: Hard Cost: $8.4m (+59%) Interest: $1.1m (+345%) Equity: $3.8m (+67%) That's why rents are going up.

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Legalize corner lot, single stair, mixed-use, wood hybrid buildings 🤩

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Legalize home lifting, retaining, renovating, and infilling with six new high performance homes everywhere.

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Turns out people really like streets without cars 😍

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Where it all began, our first multi-family project where one home became two. Parallel on Bushby Street in Victoria, BC.

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So much narrative is that our cities are full. Canada is 1.6% larger then the USA but the USA has 771% more population. The USA is the 188th densest country on earth. We have sooooooo much room to grow its not even funny.

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Less is more and colors are good 🎨

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Before and after facade/structure renovation using all recycled material 🌳

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3 years

For 3319 Douglas with @546arch we are looking at using a crazy new product made out of aluminum foam which results in some dramatic + dynamic facade effects. Rental housing can be innovative, livable and beautiful! Learn more here:

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“This is great news for developers, but how will it affect B.C. communities?” Statements like this is perpetuate this belief housing production only benefits developers. Housing is where people live, work, and create. It’s the basis of all success in our society.

The Vancouver Sun

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Riley Donovan: Ending single-family zoning an unprecedented act of provincial overreach

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This is peak urban living. Connected location. Gorgeous, intentional, legible architecture. Courtyard living. Sign me up!

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This is our humble Victoria, BC and the mobility network that have been built. IIRC we are one of two cities in Canada that most trips are completely by bike, bus, walk. What is amazing to me is that amazing feat is accomplished with such little allocation of the street network.…

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1 year

We are partners in an amazing company called Kinsol Timber Systems. Our US division is building some of the biggest mass timber buildings in NA for our amazing clients at Google We are so excited about the future of mass timber and the other exciting projects coming forward 🌲🏗️

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After 7 trips to Council, 3 year rezoning, 14 months for building permits, a trip to the Supreme Court, and 18 months for construction…Rhodo is almost done!! 22 townhouses with 20% price restricted to $60k incomes, it’s no wonder the #missingmiddle is…umm…missing 😵‍💫

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Huzzzzahh!!! We got UNANIMOUS support from Victoria Council for our 1025 Kings purpose built rental project. Not single caller opposed, all support, amazing! We are thrilled to be adding more market and non-market housing this neighbourhood 🥳

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