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Kanoo is my current DT fave and a close second overall for the city. Guelph is blessed with an abnormally high density of good quality espresso for a city its size.

5/Without grappling with these problems, we are consigning yet more generations of renters to the health effects of housing on arterial roads. This as much an issue of justice as it is public health. Decision makers need to get educated on this and course correct accordingly.

4/Even cities with reputations for progressive planning, like Waterloo, still rely on corridor planning in some areas for accommodating provincial population growth targets. Have we made progress? Yes. But you also have to factor in higher financial feasibility of slightly more dense missing middle.

3/Urban planning has not yet fully caught up to the through line between those problematic policies of the past and today's bad public health outcomes. When we don't allow even low density upzoning - like sixplexes in Toronto, for example - on interior residential streets, we are reinforcing this.

2/Some of this can be tied back to classist, and frankly, racist policies in the early to mid twentieth centuries that deliberately directed tenements or apartment buildings towards arterial roads so they didn't mix with low-rise, upper class neighbourhoods.

I can't imagine there's any writers pushing for something that would preclude some people from bothering to read their work? If ownership thinks we'd rather read summaries than their actual product, I'd question their ability to understand their customer base.