An idea whose time is almost here.

The Queen Elizabeth Driveway is dead.

Long live the Queen Elizabeth National Urban Park!

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A nice Critical Mass #ottbike

Parkways looking good, Ottawa. #CriticalMass

#CriticalMass Ottawa celebrating Open Parkways

Hey Ottawa, let’s get out and join the Tour de silence on Wednesday evening. 5:15pm at Gatineau City Hall, near the Museum of History.

This is the correct answer to Mike’s question.

Looking at you, Ottawa sprawl.

“Mayor Olivia Chow says the numbers, contained in a report going to her executive committee next week, are so staggering that the city needs to think twice about building anything new.”

This is a fantastic thread on Ottawa development charges, and how infill development ends up paying for suburban growth through “City wide” projects.

It’s summed up in a reply tweet, which I’ll paste here so it doesn’t get missed.

Two smart people with similar goals—more housing in a livable, affordable city—disagreeing intelligently about how to get there.

Nerd paradise.

I disagree with this analysis. Reducing DCs risks being little more than a taxpayer subsidy to developers.

For today’s Ottawa Planning Committee, how do pro-developer advocates and other YIMBYs propose to pay for lost City revenue? Tax increases for all?

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Is this the year Apple launches the Knowledge Navigator, 37 years after they released this vision of the future?

Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987) youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0?si…

Look at this City of Ottawa engagement process. People in face-to-face discussions. Working together to come up with real solutions.

Compare this to the charade that was the Lansdowne process.

Which approach do you think they use for the upcoming zoning bylaw consultations?

Do you love Active Parkways? If so, join the parade on May 11.

Ottawa housing peeps …

In the draft City Zoning Bylaw, have you seen examples of “junk zoning” — ie stuff that is unnecessary — but which ends up killing new housing projects?

Please share anything you’ve found. I’m delegating to Planning Committee on Monday on this topic.

Grover: Dedicated bud lanes in Ottawa would be a win for everyone
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My thoughts on developments at the Ottawa Hospital’s Riverside Campus, part 2

Oh dear …

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“Safe streets, please” says #CriticalMass Ottawa