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Editor’s Corner
With a housing market that has priced many individuals out of the ability to purchase a home, solutions are needed – and microhomes offer significant potential benefits to address the growing challenge. Discover how microhomes can benefit your community, provided that local government, developers, and the public all work toward a common goal.
Canada 150 and Truth in our History
There are a number of fundamental differences between how we saw our history and heritage in 1967, and how we see it today. Historical events may be long past, but their value is in the lessons they teach us.
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Two years ago, the world came together at COP21 in Paris with the goal of combatting climate change and substantially decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, 170 parties have ratified the agreement, and the world continues to make strides to meet its goals – notwithstanding the decision by the Trump administration to withdraw and its seemingly obstinate refusal to acknowledge basic climate science. And, action is not only happening at the national and international levels. Regional and local governments continue to take concrete steps for mitigation and adaptation. Certainly, Canada’s municipalities have been proactive in these efforts. As highlighted on page 9 of this issue, the BC Climate & Energy Action Awards showcase an array of forward-thinking initiatives; and, the BC Energy Step Code (page 21) lays out a new regulation that will further empower local governments in that province to require better-than-code energy efficiency standards in construction.
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These stories represent just some of the important strategies being adopted. One of the more interesting options on the horizon is the emergence of microhomes. These smaller living spaces have the potential to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of our cities, with the co-benefit of providing affordable housing options and diversifying the housing stock. Given these benefits, Tim Kuntz makes the case that these microhomes might be the wave of the future in housing … if municipalities can work with developers and the public to resolve the current issues. Municipalities have made tremendous progress in introducing and implementing climate change initiatives; but, it is clear that more must be done. At the same time, as we prepare for a future with increased urbanization, housing issues will continue to be a challenge as well. With so much to offer on both fronts, microhomes must be considered as one option to help advance the goals of sustainable community building.
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MICROLIVING
by Tim Kuntz
Repositioning the Municipal “Master Plan�
A hotly-contested topic of interest for municipal councils across the entire country right now is affordable housing. If your municipal team is managing a major urban city or within 2.5 hours of an international airport, there is an innovative strategy that could change the way your community addresses housing for the next three decades. There is no question that a major shift in housing design, size, price, energy consumption (eco-energy efficiency), raw-materials, fabrication methodology (offsite construction systems), and execution (building processes) has gathered considerable momentum among the collective consciousness of North American consumers. Microhome designs and developments can be a real game-changer for those municipalities attempting to meet the real-time challenge of finding affordable housing for people of all ages. From a municipal perspective, microliving has the potential to make a real difference in the future of communities. The microhome and microsuite (the design + fabrication + execution movement) continues to gather speed as a cost-effective,
accelerated method of addressing the shortages, rising costs, and quality of accessible housing. Visionary corporations and municipalities have already begun to execute microliving communities. This momentum can only continue if municipalities take proactive steps within their regulatory structures to expand the market (examples of this are already emerging in places like the City of Vancouver and City of Edmonton).
Simpler Lifestyle This kind of smaller design has primarily attracted younger adults seeking affordable urban living options. But, senior living architects say that microhomes have great potential in appealing to seniors looking for similar housing to fit their desire for a simpler lifestyle. The concept of living smaller is not new. In the 1950s, the average home was 983 square feet for a family of four to six. However, as our disposable income grew, and the western world became wealthier, our desire for more was reflected by an increase in square-foot living space fueled by low-cost accessible debt (mortgages).
During the 1960s, trailer parks and mobile homes were conceived out of a similar demand trend for more affordable housing. The units were originally designed to provide a more affordable housing solution with a matching attractive price tag and monthly land lease fees (pad fees), while taking up less land (lot space) than traditional housing developments. In the mid-to-late first decade of the 2000s, North American modular/prefab (offsite construction systems) housing designers, architects, and fabricators began to redefine and redesign what smaller spaces could look and feel like. Based on research, they determined that consumers wanted affordable, great de-
TIM KUNTZ is a serial entrepreneur, strategic consultant, planet earth enthusiast, and transitioning minimalist. Tim is passionate about Offsite Construction (OCS) technology, design, fabrication and execution, and believes this proven methodology can resolve many of the challenges facing the North American construction industry.
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sign that was mortgageable (on a foundation). As momentum grew, innovative groups of fabricators, architects, engineers, and designers have consistently advanced the microliving designs and builder-developer models. Today, microhome designs, architecture, engineering, and standards leverage innovative materials and global vendors, along with advanced fabrication methods that have evolved far beyond our preconceived ideas of what a home truly is and can be.
Municipal Housing Market As prices reach record highs in the housing market, renting in Toronto has never been tougher, with tenants even turning to “Tinder-style profiles” to woo landlords. It’s an unfortunate side effect of being a burgeoning tech hub (the Canadian city was recently named the fastest growing tech job market in North America, outpacing San Francisco and New York). These job opportunities mean Toronto’s Millennial population is swelling, and graduates from local universities are staying put. Economic and environmental pressures to innovate housing have never been stronger in our free market economy. Microhomes (600-1,000 square feet) and microsuites (250-650 square feet) are being designed, viewed, and displayed from coast to coast and around the globe. Innovative Canadian businesses are entering the market to fill in the gaps. Niche growth areas for microhomes worth noting are floating-homes and floating-home developments. There are now floating foundations that can easily merge with offsite microhome design and fabrication technology. This is not your typical backyard pontoon or barrel float system. These concrete foundations are highly engineered, internationally certified, environmentally safe, precision load-balanced, and fabricated to the highest structural standards.
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await those municipal leaders willing to embrace these safe and environmentallyproven approaches to microhome and microliving communities. Microhomes are not tiny homes (400 square feet or less, generally on a trailer chassis). Rather, they are smaller floorplan homes with modern open-plan designs (600-1,000 square feet) with advanced HVAC energy saving engineering systems, and fully financeable over 25 years. Microhomes can start in the low $100,000 range and, depending on location, size, fit and finish, final selections, accessories, add-ons, and upgrade options, can cost well over $200,000.
infrastructure departments, tax departments, and by-law amendments. Those municipalities with premium locations (within 2.5 hours of a major urban area) should be the first to pick up the challenge to invite developers to the table, even going as far as offering incentives to attract progressive developer/investors, and fabricators to invest in proof-of-concept projects. The proof-of-concept microhome development process has already begun in Quebec and Atlantic province markets, and more Canadian municipalities now have the opportunity to pioneer the future growth in this evolving housing category. Something has to shift: the cost of resale housing is out of reach for many MillenniThe Municipal Opportunity/ als and too much of a stretch for most seChallenge niors. Downsizers and boomers want more value ($149,000-$289,000) to conserve To position this innovative classification of housing within a municipality is the their retirement savings after divesting a major asset (the primary home) without big opportunity. These innovative designs sacrificing quality and design. Energy costs and methods will require disruption to normal operating procedures. It will require will only continue to increase over time, and having a well-engineered home with a collaboration with developers, planners, builders, building officials, zoning officials, smaller footprint can reduce annual operat-
ing costs by up to 70 percent, as well as decrease taxes and utilities. Developer partners and designer/architects are aware of these trends and capitalizing on the shift. New architectural terms like co-living and co-working are showing us how to live more fully with less traditional space. Entrepreneurs have designed and articulated a lifestyle that is ready for increased adoption among targeted demographics. Furniture companies have designed highly adaptable space transforming pieces that make smaller spaces highly flexible and fun to live in.
Coming Together When smart microliving space architecture, design, engineering, furniture and fabrication (offsite construction systems) work together with municipal leaders to partner with progressive developers, a new value proposition in Canadian housing will become a reality. And, it just might be the answer that communities are looking to solve their affordable housing challenges. MW
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GETTING
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“The importance of cities has never been more apparent; the problems confronting cities never more serious; and the opportunities for urban success never more possible.”
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CANADA 150 AND
TRUTH IN OUR HISTORY What is history? When did it start? How old does something have to be, to be historic? Whose stories do we tell and commemorate? These, (and other) questions are on the minds of municipal heritage planners, community leaders, and volunteers who are the custodians of their community’s history and heritage today. When the Centennial of Canadian Confederation occurred in 1967, it was a focus for the country to look back on what it had achieved; its great stories, its monuments and tangible reminders of great events and people. Many of those people were men with origins in Britain and France like Sir John A. MacDonald who, in the context of the 19th century, were best positioned to take a leading role in shaping the early Dominion of Canada. When we started thinking about the recent 150th anniversary of Confederation, many of us were not sure exactly what this anniversary year would bring. Would it be a carbon copy of 1967 when great
MICHAEL SEAMAN, MCIP, RPP is Director of Planning for the Town of Grimsby, where he also leads the Economic Development portfolio. Previously, he was a manager of heritage planning with the Town of Oakville, and a senior heritage planner with the City of Markham and Town of Aurora. All three communities were winners of the Prince of Wales Prize for Municipal Heritage Leadership. Michael is contributing editor for heritage for the Ontario Planning Journal and currently serves as Ontario Governor on the Board of the National Trust for Canada. He can be reached at <mseaman@grimsby.ca>
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stories were retold and the foundations of modern day heritage legislation set? Turns out, it was not exactly the same – yet, as we are nearing the end of 2017, I think we can all agree that the focus on our history has been no less strong. There are a number of fundamental differences between how we saw our history and heritage in 1967, and how we see it today. There has to be, because our history did not stand still during all that time. The most obvious of these differences is that we looked far more deeply and critically into our history than ever before. These new lenses are perhaps due to changes in society over 50 years, and due to the collective national soul searching instigated by the outcomes of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), organized by the parties of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. The commission was part of a holistic and comprehensive response to the abuse inflicted on Indigenous peoples through assimilation policies actioned through the Indian residential school system, and the harmful legacy of those institutions. The commission was officially established on June 2, 2008, and was completed in December 2015. Unlike the more idealistic and romantic version of our history that we celebrated in 1967, we realize 50 years later that our history has not necessarily been one long, uninterrupted, consequence-free, glorious journey. We learned that historical heroes like Sir John A. MacDonald had flaws, and made poor decisions that we challenge, as well as the good ones that we celebrate. Perhaps it should not come as too much of a surprise that those who we had once put on a pedestal were not really perfect. Honestly, who among us can claim to be flawless, and have acted perfectly through every moment of our lives? However, most of us achieve atonement by recognizing past mistakes, learning from those mistakes, and making better choices as we move forward. 12
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It can be difficult to judge historical figures. Realistically, we can’t pull people out of time, and expect them to be models of the societal norms that we hold today, for we are all shaped by our environment. That said, however, most of us won’t cause irreparable harm to an entire people the way the residential school system did. I suspect the story of Sir. John A. MacDonald’s place in history will take a long time yet to be settled. What we do know is that he
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made decisions that had both positive and negative impacts. As a country, we can learn and be better citizens by understanding both. Now, we exist in a time when Canada as a nation strives to walk on that path of truth and reconciliation regarding the century of Indigenous residential schools, a time that in our history many consider to be our darkest hour. We exist in a time when we must open our minds to the fact that there is a long-standing Indigenous
While each incident was terrible in its own way, we now recognize the error of our nation’s past ways, and the need for apology and reconciliation. history in Canada that we haven’t begun to acknowledge or understand. It’s not the first time we have had to re-evaluate our past. There are also the matters of Japanese and Ukrainian wartime internment, the turning away on dishonourable grounds of the refugee and immigrant liners St. Louis and Komagata Maru, the imposition of the Chinese head tax, the neglect of the Black Loyalist community of Nova Scotia, and eviction of Africville to name but a few. While each incident was terrible in its own way, we now recognize the error of our nation’s past ways, and the need for apology and reconciliation. The residential schools tragedy looms large for our nation. The path to true apology and reconciliation for residential schools and the poor treatment of our Indigenous peoples is going to be long, and certainly not painless. As our nation embarks upon the path of truth and reconciliation, we face the challenge and opportunity to show our true collective greatness, and uniqueness as a nation, learning from the past to make a better, more tolerant, and understanding Canada. “It’s going to take us 100 years to figure out what the hell went on up there but it isn’t cool, and everybody knows that. It’s really, really bad. But we’re going to figure it out. You’re going to figure it out,” said the late great Canadian, poet and singer Gord Downie during his final concert with the Tragically Hip in 2016 in Kingston, Ontario. As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said upon his passing, Gord Downie “truly loved Canada.” His love wasn’t blind to our flaws and past sins, but he had faith that we would, in time, do the right thing and be a better nation for it.
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Perhaps Canada’s history and our heritage sites are no longer the joyful “Boys Own” style comic book places of happiness that we knew in our youth. Another difference between 1967 and today is that, 50 years later, we realize that our history did not stop in a specific period. I remember once being told by a particularly brazen historian that the only serious history that we should be focusing on commemorating, is that of the United Empire Loyalists (UEL). No one would ever deny the importance of the UEL to Canada’s story, but it is one of many equally rich and valid stories of our country. Our history continues to be made and told every single day. What of the Canadian soldiers of Vimy Ridge and Kandahar; the discovery of insulin; the sporting achievements of Tom Longboat, Donovan Bailey, and Team Canada 72; the music of Glen Gould, The Guess Who, Joanie Mitchell, and Gordon Lightfoot; or the inspiration lessons of pride for our country from Terry Fox, Nathan Cirillo, and Clara Hughes. History doesn’t stop. I became most poignantly aware of this fact when watching from afar, like most Canadians did, the tragic but most meaningful last year of Gord Downie. If you really think about it, we were watching history happen. Like Terry Fox before him, he had the pulpit and the whole nation was watching and listening. Downie devoted his time to inspire us to focus our attention on the need to accept the dark truths of our national past and to “figure it out,” in order to keep Canada being the Canada he loved so deeply. He challenged us to be better, to be greater than we ever were before, and make a future history to inspire our country for decades to come. The opportunity to be a part of future history is what should inspire every Canadian – old or new.
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Perhaps Canada’s history and our heritage sites are no longer the joyful “Boys Own” style comic book places of happiness that we knew in our youth. Our country has grown up. The comic book has been discarded and we are reading more complex and analytical non-fiction works these days. It makes us cry, makes us laugh, and makes us learn; but, most of all, it causes us to think and analyse the value of our own contribution to this still-great country of ours. If we continue to respond to those lessons and learn from them, as painful as they
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may be, we will be a better country for it. So yes, Canada 150 was a meaningful experience, and has generated a fundamentally different reaction in how we see our nation, and our nation’s stories. I don’t think any of us are any less proud of our country from what we know now that we may not have known then. Historical events may be long past but their value is in the lessons they teach us. We are the makers of the history of the future, and I’m certain we will, in time, “figure it out” – and continue to make Canada a better place. MW
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