Kingston is in a housing supply and housing affordability crisis. Building a co-op will alleviate both. Food inflation and shrink-inflation has made getting good food more and more precarious for many people. Building a vertical farm will produce more nutritious food locally. Regular food production is energy and carbon intensive compared to our vertical farm project. Regular housing is also energy and carbon intensive compared to our project. LCCH will lead the way in a paradigm shift in how we view sustainability and affordability by linking housing and food production. In order to secure CMHC capital funding, which is the biggest source of grant funding and absolutely necessary to build, they require Class B estimates. Working backwards to get to 7) a Class B construction budget, 6) the architectural detailed plans and specifications have to be decided on. 5) Those details need work done by structural, mechanical, and electrical engineers on their respective areas of the building. To make sure they are working from approved parameters, 4) The architect has to prove out all of the assumptions made in the schematic design from our Class D estimates. The architectural prove out happens, once a development permit has been obtained from the City of Kingston. 3) The development permit is obtained once, 2) the City of Kingston’s planning department, planning committee, and City Council have approved the land use change (with a zoning bylaw amendment and site plan control agreement). A zoning bylaw amendment requires 1) all the impact studies planning staff legally require to make a positive recommendation to planning committee and City Council.