Category: A fair city

REACH for Community Safety

September 14th, 2010 in 2007-2010 Term, A fair city, Crime

Last week at Council’s Community Services Committee we received an an update on progress of the REACH Edmonton Council for Safe Communities initiative, and the business case for the 24/7 service delivery model (summary). This week it comes to Council for approval. I probably should have written about REACH previously, and the important precursor work… Read More

The Way we Grow/Sprawl

November 14th, 2009 in 2007-2010 Term, A city with better housing & transportation choices, A fair city, A fiscally responsible city, An environmentally responsible city, Smarter Planning, Urban Sprawl

I caused a bit of a stir on Thursday at Council by raising some concerns about the city’s proposed development plan ‘The Way we Grow’. I rather flippantly suggested we could call it ‘The Way we Sprawl.’ Scott McKeen wrote about the plan in Friday’s Journal and his critique is similar to mine. In spite… Read More

Budget 2009 Impacts

April 16th, 2009 in 2007-2010 Term, A city with better housing & transportation choices, A fair city, A fiscally responsible city, A functional city

Council debated some significant revisions to the 2009 budget yesterday, which we needed to deal with before we establish the tax mill rates later this month. City revenues are down about $30 million because of slower building activity (resulting in lower permit fee revenue) and low interest rates on the cash we have in the bank.