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  <title>2025: The year Edmonton built the missing middle</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/zbr-two-year-review/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Edmonton saw a record-breaking surge in diverse housing types in 2025, while redeveloping less than 0.2% of low-density properties into rowhomes. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>A quick look at infill’s effect on property values</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2025/property-value-preliminary/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ A few graphs and tables for preliminary work on infill construction’s effects on property values. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Building briefing for new councillors</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
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  <description><![CDATA[ As new councillors take seats in four wards across Edmonton, here is a briefing about infill in the RS zone in their wards. ]]></description>
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  <title>7-8plexes in the RS zone and location near transit</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
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  <description><![CDATA[ A quick, but deeper look at 7-8 unit multiplexes in the RS zone and where they are located in relation to transit. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Population growth and rowhouse growth in selected neighbourhoods</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2025/population-growth-rowhouses/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Quick profiles of selected neigbhourhoods and how much 7-8 unit rowhouse development they’re really seeing. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>The RS zoning story they don’t tell you</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2025/real-rs-story/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Ah, here we go again. A deeper look at the RS zone that seems to perenially be in the news. How much housing supply is being delivered, and how fast are mature neighbourhoods really changing? ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Zoning By-Law Renewal: One Year Review</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2025/edmonton-bp-2024/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Edmonton’s housing policy continued its march forward this past year with the new zoning by-law renewal coming into effect and district plans in force. Let’s take a look at where and what type of homes are being built in this new policy regime. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Liberty Village SmartTrack Station</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2025/lv-smarttrack/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ What does the data say about Toronto City Council’s decision to defund the King-Liberty SmartTrack station? ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Op-ed: Rezoning in Garneau will improve housing options for everyone</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2024/garneau-rezoning-oped/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ I wrote an op-ed in favour of Edmonton’s plan to upzone Garneau. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>District Plans and Policy Need Changes</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2024/district-planning-opinion/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ My take on why and how Edmonton City Council should revise district plans and policy in favour of housing. In short, we need stronger support for mid-rise housing around transit and post-secondary institutions. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Updated district plan profile for each LRT station</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2024/all-lrt-stops-updated/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Updated maps and plots with the final draft district plans. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Transit commute mode share by provincial electoral division</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2024/transit-usage-peds/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Quick maps of mode share by provincial electoral division in Edmonton. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Land use and growth around Edmonton’s LRT stations</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2024/all-lrt-stops/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ A data-driven profile of Edmonton’s LRT station areas using the census, open data and manually-drawn node and corridor boundaries from district planning. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Avonmore Stop</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2023/avonmore-stop/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ As Edmonton’s Urban Planning Committee discusses the interim District Planning report, here’s a closer look at what’s in store for the area around Avonmore Stop on the Valley Line. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>McKernan/Belgravia Station</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2023/mckernan-belgravia-station/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Where district planning doesn’t go far enough: a closer look at the area around the least-used Edmonton LRT station. ]]></description>
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  <guid>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2023/mckernan-belgravia-station/</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>BC’s new transit-oriented development policy applied to Toronto</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2023/bc-tod-toronto/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ BC’s new transit-oriented development policy excited housing advocates across Canada. This legislation sets a new bar for as-of-right density permissions around rapid transit and even “bus exchanges”. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Migrating my Blog from Hugo to Quarto</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2023/migrating-to-quarto/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ If you visited my old website in 2022, you’ll have noticed that things have changed around here. The biggest change is that I migrated the rendering engine from <a href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a> to <a href="https://quarto.org/">Quarto</a>. Why? Because a lot of my blog posts are computational and Quarto just works more easily for this purpose. ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>I Deputed for a Land Value Tax at Edmonton City Council</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2023/lvt-deputation/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Last week, Edmonton’s Urban Planning Committee met to decide what to do about the <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-considers-options-for-abundance-of-downtown-parking-lot-eyesores-1.6968984">abundance of surface parking lots</a> in downtown. Surface parking lots are a wasteful land use in central areas, near transit and many people want to see them redeveloped. Ultimately, the committee chose to punt the question about what to do back to staff, as they didn’t want to penalize landowners who wanted to be in compliance with the by-law, but could not immediately develop or sell their land, at least for what they want to build. ]]></description>
  <category>land value tax</category>
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  <guid>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2023/lvt-deputation/</guid>
  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Edmonton’s Mature Neighbourhoods Need Growth</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2023/edmonton-mature-neighbourhoods/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ In June, I moved across the country to Edmonton with my girlfriend who matched to residency at the Stollery hospital. Since then, I have gotten involved with <a href="https://growtogetheryeg.ca">Grow Together Edmonton</a>, a pro-housing organization that’s starting to get off the ground. ]]></description>
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  <guid>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2023/edmonton-mature-neighbourhoods/</guid>
  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>2022 Toronto Municipal Election Maps - Councillors</title>
  <dc:creator>Jacob Dawang</dc:creator>
  <link>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2022/election-maps-2022/</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ I decided to spend some time mapping out the poll-by-poll results for each of the council races. A lot of the races were not close so the maps just show a blowout. Since there were 25 wards, I set up <a href="https://jdawang.github.io/2022-election-maps/">a dedicated website</a> for interactive maps of all wards. Here, I want to highlight a few interesting races with some static maps and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram">cartograms</a>, where each area is weighted by the total number of votes, since land does not vote: ]]></description>
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  <guid>https://www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2022/election-maps-2022/</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:00:14 GMT</pubDate>
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