Eric Lombardi
@ericlombardi.ca
A thoughtful guy in fintech. Champion of progress. YIMBY @moreneighbours Toronto. Writes in @TheHubCanada @TorontoStar 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🌐🏗🏙
Fantastic outcome honestly. Let’s defer on this forever.
October 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Fantastic outcome honestly. Let’s defer on this forever.
3️⃣ An Urbanization Infrastructure Fund would support local services — financing targeted upgrades and offsetting development charges so growth pays for itself.
📌 Bold goal: Establish the Urbanization Zone — with modernized rules and infrastructure support — by 2027
📌 Bold goal: Establish the Urbanization Zone — with modernized rules and infrastructure support — by 2027
September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
3️⃣ An Urbanization Infrastructure Fund would support local services — financing targeted upgrades and offsetting development charges so growth pays for itself.
📌 Bold goal: Establish the Urbanization Zone — with modernized rules and infrastructure support — by 2027
📌 Bold goal: Establish the Urbanization Zone — with modernized rules and infrastructure support — by 2027
2️⃣ Modernized building code rules would apply only in the zone — piloting safe, efficient standards like single-egress stairwells and compact European elevators (as I recently wrote in the Toronto Star:
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
The condo market is crashing. Here’s how we keep building as prices fall
For years, restrictive zoning made the midrise apartment impossible. That fight isn’t over, but it is no longer the biggest obstacle. Beyond high development taxes, the emerging barrier today is
www.thestar.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
2️⃣ Modernized building code rules would apply only in the zone — piloting safe, efficient standards like single-egress stairwells and compact European elevators (as I recently wrote in the Toronto Star:
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
This zone as proposed would be bounded by Keele, Eglinton, Victoria Park, and the lake. Within this zone:
1️⃣ Six-storey apartments would be legal by default — a scale that makes redevelopment viable.
1️⃣ Six-storey apartments would be legal by default — a scale that makes redevelopment viable.
September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This zone as proposed would be bounded by Keele, Eglinton, Victoria Park, and the lake. Within this zone:
1️⃣ Six-storey apartments would be legal by default — a scale that makes redevelopment viable.
1️⃣ Six-storey apartments would be legal by default — a scale that makes redevelopment viable.
To fix this, Toronto must deliberately urbanize its inner suburban neighbourhoods — gradually, sustainably, and at human scale.
The memo proposes a pilot Urbanization Zone across Old Toronto’s pre-war suburbs, piggybacking on the concept of “Special Economic Zones” intro’d by the province.
The memo proposes a pilot Urbanization Zone across Old Toronto’s pre-war suburbs, piggybacking on the concept of “Special Economic Zones” intro’d by the province.
September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
To fix this, Toronto must deliberately urbanize its inner suburban neighbourhoods — gradually, sustainably, and at human scale.
The memo proposes a pilot Urbanization Zone across Old Toronto’s pre-war suburbs, piggybacking on the concept of “Special Economic Zones” intro’d by the province.
The memo proposes a pilot Urbanization Zone across Old Toronto’s pre-war suburbs, piggybacking on the concept of “Special Economic Zones” intro’d by the province.
This imbalance leaves the wrong places carrying the load: towers in post-war suburbs and the 905, while the old suburbs at the city’s heart remain frozen in time.
To fix this, Toronto must deliberately urbanize its inner suburban neighbourhoods — gradually, sustainably, and at human scale.
To fix this, Toronto must deliberately urbanize its inner suburban neighbourhoods — gradually, sustainably, and at human scale.
September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This imbalance leaves the wrong places carrying the load: towers in post-war suburbs and the 905, while the old suburbs at the city’s heart remain frozen in time.
To fix this, Toronto must deliberately urbanize its inner suburban neighbourhoods — gradually, sustainably, and at human scale.
To fix this, Toronto must deliberately urbanize its inner suburban neighbourhoods — gradually, sustainably, and at human scale.
Toronto is growing fast, but most of that growth is concentrated in downtown towers, new high-rise clusters, and sprawl on the edge of the region.
Meanwhile, many of the neighbourhoods closest to the core have actually lost population since 1970.
Meanwhile, many of the neighbourhoods closest to the core have actually lost population since 1970.
September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Toronto is growing fast, but most of that growth is concentrated in downtown towers, new high-rise clusters, and sprawl on the edge of the region.
Meanwhile, many of the neighbourhoods closest to the core have actually lost population since 1970.
Meanwhile, many of the neighbourhoods closest to the core have actually lost population since 1970.