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Garden suites were supposed to increase housing density in Toronto, but city data shows people aren't building them. Toronto amended zoning two years ago to allow garden suites on most residential ...

Some neighbourhoods in Edmonton are seeing a development in what planners call gentle density — and not just in the core. Gentle density refers to increasing the number of dwellings on a street with ...

Nick Kardum, owner of Backyard Bungalows, at a garden suite on Redfern Street. Kardum says he s working with several Saanich home­owners who are finalizing their design and architectural plans so they ...

The City of Mississauga has introduced a materials list, which is a new resource for its pre-approved garden suite plans. The materials list will make it easier, faster and more convenient for ...

Below are the Garden Suites Gem locations. It starts with a list of their locations so you can try and find them yourself but below that are the gem locations in the order they'd likely be obtained.

Toronto city council has given the go-ahead for garden suites to be built across the city. On Wednesday, city councillors expanded permissions to allow residents to build garden suites on residential ...

Saanich residents are saying yes to garden suites, but many don’t want to see them used as short-term vacation rentals. That’s according to a new survey released on Wednesday by the District of ...

Once in a friendly and drunken discussion about art, I had to say for argument’s sake that architecture is art that feeds on itself. Architecture has to tear down in order to build; it replaces itself ...