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[Update Nov 23, 2012: The public hearing on the budget started today with a thorough presentation from city administration chock full of historical information about trends driving the operating budget. A pdf of the presentation can be accessed here.] Yesterday Council received its first look at the proposed 2012 operating budget (full documentation available here).… Read More
Over the last several weeks I’ve heard significant concerns from residents of the Greenfield neighbourhood about a Cell Phone tower proposed to be located on the northeast corner of the Greenfield Baptist Church site at 3712 – 114 Street. Many of the issues are site-specific concerns or process concerns with the way this application and consultation process has unfolded.… Read More
[What follows below are my remarks from today’s vote on the revised negotiated framework to design and build a downtown arena.] I’m sold on what a new arena could do for our downtown and our city. But I also believe there’s a better deal to be had than the one before us. I think the responsible… Read More
Last week Council debated several amendments to the already heavily revised Snow Policy. The revised policy as approved by Council is here. There was significant debate about whether the City should be plowing residential roads down to bare pavement after every snowfall. In the end Council decided that we should aim for maintaining a 5cm… Read More
Following up to last week’s post on the latest round of Snow Policy work, I can confirm that Council intervened and, as you may have read in the media, the blanket seasonal parking ban on bus routes has been suspended. At the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee meeting on September 6, I proposed that all we… Read More