Across The Table with Dionysius
Oct 15, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
Send us Fan Mail Beacon Hill candidate Cathryne Milburn joins the podcast to discuss her platform ahead of the upcoming municipal vote. Dionysius…
So what is the single biggest reason housing costs so much in your ward and what would you do about it in your first year in council?
One of the challenges is that we need greater diversity of housing options, including more affordable housing to meet the needs of people at different stages in their lives and income levels.
Beacon Hill-Ceraville is still with Inside the Greenbelt and is most likely the next ward to go through the biggest amount of change in this city.
So we need to prepare for that growth and we need to make sure it's responsible with a diversity of housing options and not just one type of housing option.
In my first year, I would work to support more housing options, particularly affordable housing near transit hubs while ensuring new development is matched with the infrastructure and services that the communities need.
So that means like making sure we have good park spaces, making sure we have good community centers and that we're proactively maintaining all of these infrastructures.
Responsible development should create more choices for people to have housing without putting additional pressure on existing neighbourhoods and maintaining that neighbourhood's character.
Where in your ward should density go? And maybe more importantly for some people in your ward, where would you say it should stay off the table?
So I'm going to kind of repeat myself here because I did mention that density should start going around major transit hubs so that it's easier to get around our neighbourhoods and throughout the city.
We need to create housing options for people at different stages of life and income, like I said, while protecting our community needs and ensuring development is responsible.
And when you look at development within our neighborhoods, we obviously should not be in the middle of Beacon Hill South or Beacon Hill North building the big, huge, like 30 story apartment buildings.
But when we are doing development within our existing neighborhoods, we need to ensure that when we increase the density, we're focusing on, do we have enough parks? Do we have like the road infrastructure to maintain them? Right.
And I know there is we can do some prediction of what each community and each ward in our city is going to look like in the future, but we don't fully know.
So it's about being agile and adapting to any of the changing needs that our community has.
But really, like the big apartment buildings and more density should go around transit hubs and should stay out of the center of neighborhoods.
What would you change about how the city approves new homes or additions or renovations?
So you're going to hear me say this a lot for a lot of the questions because it comes through.
But the number one thing I would change is transparency and communication through the approval process for new development.
So what is the single biggest reason housing costs so much in your ward and what would you do about it in your first year in council?
One of the challenges is that we need greater diversity of housing options, including more affordable housing to meet the needs of people at different stages in their lives and income levels.
Beacon Hill-Ceraville is still with Inside the Greenbelt and is most likely the next ward to go through the biggest amount of change in this city.
So we need to prepare for that growth and we need to make sure it's responsible with a diversity of housing options and not just one type of housing option.
In my first year, I would work to support more housing options, particularly affordable housing near transit hubs while ensuring new development is matched with the infrastructure and services that the communities need.
So that means like making sure we have good park spaces, making sure we have good community centers and that we're proactively maintaining all of these infrastructures.
Responsible development should create more choices for people to have housing without putting additional pressure on existing neighbourhoods and maintaining that neighbourhood's character.
Where in your ward should density go? And maybe more importantly for some people in your ward, where would you say it should stay off the table?
So I'm going to kind of repeat myself here because I did mention that density should start going around major transit hubs so that it's easier to get around our neighbourhoods and throughout the city.
We need to create housing options for people at different stages of life and income, like I said, while protecting our community needs and ensuring development is responsible.
And when you look at development within our neighborhoods, we obviously should not be in the middle of Beacon Hill South or Beacon Hill North building the big, huge, like 30 story apartment buildings.
But when we are doing development within our existing neighborhoods, we need to ensure that when we increase the density, we're focusing on, do we have enough parks? Do we have like the road infrastructure to maintain them? Right.
And I know there is we can do some prediction of what each community and each ward in our city is going to look like in the future, but we don't fully know.
So it's about being agile and adapting to any of the changing needs that our community has.
But really, like the big apartment buildings and more density should go around transit hubs and should stay out of the center of neighborhoods.
What would you change about how the city approves new homes or additions or renovations?
So you're going to hear me say this a lot for a lot of the questions because it comes through.
But the number one thing I would change is transparency and communication through the approval process for new development.
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