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Today City Council will take another kick at the single councillor ward question. As has been the case every other time Council has considered this, the maps have provoked a flurry of speculation (and a bit of posturing) about who might run where. Word down the council hallway (and my own take) is that these… Read More
On February 4 council approved amendments to the zoning bylaw allowing widespread secondary suites in a 9-to-2 decision. I was among the 9. There was considerable debate about whether to require owner occupancy of a property as a condition of receiving a secondary suite development permit. A vote on requiring this initially passed 6 to… Read More
I’ve been meaning, since the previous post from November of 2007, to start blogging again. Now, with some changes to the website to better accommodate this, I’m back — just in time to celebrate the halfway point of the three-year term. For the moment the updates will be occasional, but I intend to use this… Read More
What follows was a guest column Vue Weekly invited me to write about Council’s budget deliberations last December: I was one of nine councilors who voted in favour of the final 2009 city budget and I appreciate the opportunity provided by Vue to explain why I voted as I did. My vote was in support… Read More
This is the Edmonton Examiner column as I submitted it in September 2008. I am posting it in July of 2010 but backdating it to the time of writing. It is posted for reference. Members of city council received a technical briefing last week on a proposed way of attacking the city’s decaying local roads, … Read More