land-use

Yum Yum Sprawly Goodness

Before we blow your minds with graph-filled, optic nerve stimulating, carefully hand-crafted data about what sprawl does to our municipalities, let’s first bask in their everlasting glory. Yeah. I left in the watermark. Come at me bruh 😝 Now, several of us at Streets are for People live in the suburbs so I just wantContinueContinue reading “Yum Yum Sprawly Goodness”

Revenue per something ㄟ(≧◇≦)ㄏ

So, it is finally time for Streets are for People to hit the big leagues and achieve the goal we set for ourselves over three years ago. When we first started this ragtag group of data nerds and engineers, we had a goal to democratize useful urban data in the northeast Avalon and share ourContinueContinue reading “Revenue per something ㄟ(≧◇≦)ㄏ”

Where’d the brooks go?

Most folks around St. John’s know about the ‘river’ under the Avalon Mall parking lot. This is Leary’s Brook. Some people may also even be vaguely aware that ‘Kelly’s brook trail’ used to follow a brook called ‘Kelly’s brook’. Interestingly, if you go looking for that brook, you will quickly find it was replaced withContinueContinue reading “Where’d the brooks go?”

St. John’s downtown: 1948 to 2024

This is a simple post: Below is a comparison from an aerial composite plate of St. John’s in 1948 to modern aerial imagery from 2024. We can use several tools to warp and bend an image to align it to our current cm accurate modern aerial imagery. Without getting overly technical, aligning the images involvesContinueContinue reading “St. John’s downtown: 1948 to 2024”

St. John’s Housing Accelerator Fund: Impact Analysis and Recommendations

The City of St John’s will be receiving 10.4 million in federal funding through the housing accelerator fund to stimulate housing growth. This will be done by a rapid initiative to have a text amendment to the city of St. John’s development regulations. The proposed changes offer some gentle density increases on existing zones; howeverContinueContinue reading “St. John’s Housing Accelerator Fund: Impact Analysis and Recommendations”

Zoning – It is broken but can it be fixed?

Zoning land use maps. They are the crown jewel of urban planning. What most people don’t know is that in North America, that jewel is often a blood diamond. That is a pretty harsh opening, I know. Allow me to explain via a ‘quick’ history lesson. History of zoning In the days of old, fromContinueContinue reading “Zoning – It is broken but can it be fixed?”