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Westenders Called To Action On Light Rail
This is an email from west end community activist Gary Ludington: From: Neighbours For Smart Western Rail [mailto:info@smartwesternrail.org] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 11:27 AM To:...
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Planning revelations get a rise
A couple of councillors ripped into their planning department at today’s city council meeting for the practice of giving very strong indications of what zoning changes the planners would be willing to...
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Katherine Hobbs gives up her car
So says her office: OTTAWA – Councillor Katherine Hobbs has sold her personal vehicle and will not be purchasing a replacement. “As a city councillor, I work every day to develop cyclist and pedestrian...
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Where zoning fights come from
It’s hard to overstate the importance of the problem Hintonburg’s Jay Baltz points out in this story about a condo tower proposed for Parkdale Avenue: All the rezoning proposals are really the fault of...
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Challenging the new infill rules in Champlain Park
You’ll recall the new rules for infill development that city council approved in May. The city doesn’t, strictly speaking, have the authority to regulate the esthetics of new buildings but it can...
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Just how similar are the two ‘visions’ for Tunney’s Pasture?
Very similar indeed, as Kevin O’Donnell’s animated GIF flipping back and forth between them indicates. To look at the map, Chianello’s right: The idea here seems to be to compress the government uses...
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OK, seriously, the lobbyist registry is not that hard to use
… but apparently professional lawyers and urban planners whose stock in trade is following complex and not-always-intuitive rules can’t get their heads around it. This is the latest in a series about...
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Authority Larry O’Brien only dreamed of
First, there was this pretty good Cory O’Kelly story on the CBC about metal stakes meant to protect some people’s lawns from wayward city snowplows. Apparently the city gave the stakes out a few years...
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Katherine Hobbs is running for re-election
In case you were wondering. We talked about it as I worked on this story about noise at Ashcroft’s convent construction site but it wasn’t quite on point so it didn’t make the story itself. “I love the...
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Tunnels, not trenches: NCC
The language from National Capital Commission chairman Russell Mills about the city’s western LRT extension is still encouraging in general — “If we keep working on this, I’m sure we can come to...
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What the city showed the NCC on the LRT
Here’s a copy of the city’s presentation to the NCC on its revised western LRT plans. It came with this written statement from deputy city manager Nancy Schepers: The Richmond Underground alignment...
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A quickie fact check on the expanding Rosemount Library
Kitchissippi Coun. Katherine Hobbs is announces that the Rosemount Library is expanding. Here’s how she puts it: Rosemount Library is 95 years old today! At a ceremony this afternoon I announced...
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Public meeting on new 12-storey plans for 1445 Wellington West
The city posted the planning application for a 12-storey condo building at Wellington and Island Park Tuesday morning and later in the day the would-be developer, Mizrahi Developments, sent out...
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How it’s going to be in Kitchissippi, apparently
As you know by now, longtime community-association type Jeff Leiper is challenging Katherine Hobbs for city council. And we get emails about it, this one from a Gordon Campbell: Dear friends, A Happy...
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The ugliness carries on Kitchissippi
You know this: Katherine Hobbs is the city councillor for Kitchissippi, which includes Hintonburg. She’s running for re-election, with her main competition at this point coming from Jeff Leiper, the...
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Ashcroft hosts meet-and-greet for Katherine Hobbs
The chief planner for the most controversial developer in Kitchissippi ward organized a meet-and-greet for the incumbent councillor there because he likes her approach to politics and wanted to help...
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Reevely: Attack on Ashcroft event an attack on condo residents, Hobbs says
Kitchissippi ward is full of condos and apartments that are hard to campaign in, and incumbent councillor Katherine Hobbs says she won’t apologize for going to a meet-and-greet in one organized by the...
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Reevely: No conflict in charity's land sale to big developer, Leiper says
The most prominent challenger for Kitchissippi’s city council seat says he wasn’t involved with a local charity when it sold its property to a major developer for a condominium project. Jeff Leiper...
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Massive Kitchissippi crowd watches latest Hobbs-Leiper battle
The question came loaded with buckshot and pointed at Jeff Leiper’s head. The Ottawa School of Speech and Drama closed abruptly early this year, taking with it thousands of dollars owed to teachers,...
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Hobbs makes rare criticism of fellow councillors in ward debate
The incumbent councillor running for re-election in Kitchissippi, Katherine Hobbs, irked some of her fellow councillors with an attack on city council’s environment committee at a debate Monday night....
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