Project direction for Environmental Defence
Project direction for an applied research initiative examining practical barriers to delivering mid-rise housing in Ontario.
Blair Scorgie served as project director for the Mid-Rise Manual on behalf of Environmental Defence, working with LGA Architectural Partners and SvN Architects + Planners, the report’s authors.
The initiative examines the relationship between housing permissions, approvals, building rules, development costs and the practical conditions for delivering mid-rise housing. It brings these questions together in a set of recommendations for policy and regulatory reform.
The work reflects an interest that runs through the practice: understanding why a planning objective can be widely supported yet remain difficult to put into effect.
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