From My Bottom Step

SNTF – Unprioritized Recommendations

Vision StatementOur London is a City of neighbourhoods.Our London neighbourhoods will be empowered, sustainable, safe and active communities. We will care for and celebrate each other while encouraging diversity and inclusiveness.Our neighbourhoods will be environmentally and socially responsible and will have available green space, vibrant local economies and accessible amenities of daily life.
This document consists of the elements of strong neighbourhoods, a definition for each, strategies for ensuring that neighbourhoods have those necessary elements, and action steps for implementing those strategies.Note that the recommendations in this document are unprioritized. That’s what our November 2009 meeting was about, and the list of prioritized recommendations will be available before much longer. Continue Reading

Transportation Notes

Some transportation-related items on today’s ETC agenda that I’ll be paying attention to. #LDN

Public Info Drop-In

Have your say about improvements to the Hyde Park Road corridor. #LDN

Widening Fanshawe Park Rd. E.

Another example of the hypocrisy at City Hall with respect to transportation, the proposed widening of a section of Fanshawe Park Road East.

ETC’s Response to Tribunal Proposal

A follow-up to yesterday’s post about the proposed London Administrative Tribunal.

Most of the discussion about this staff recommendation at today’s ETC meeting appeared to be about a motion by Controller Barber that a public participation meeting be held. As often happens, I had considerable difficulty following the proceeding because of committee members who either didn’t key their microphones or sat so far back from them that they might … Continue Reading

Who’s Driving the Bus?

The LTC has been developing a ‘Long Term Transit Growth Plan’ since mid-2006, and there’s been at least some involvement by the city’s Engineering and Environmental Services staff and by it’s Planning and Development staff. But what about the LTC’s actual users?
Just down the road, the TTC actually asked Torontonians this past Fall just what kind of TTC they wanted — “for today, and for … Continue Reading

Evolution Part #2

Hard on the heels of the previous ‘toon which Clay Butler suggests is ‘proof that we didn’t evolve from apes,’ an A-Channel report and accompanying video which supports that premise. Apparently, our species is not evolved enough to deserve such intelligent anscestry.
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One of those Female Things

A nataliedee.com sketch.

Say ‘NO’ to Jumbo-trons

eliquidMEDIA is investigating Council’s willingness to allow it to put “a large format high-definition LED display” (ie. a ‘jumbo-tron’) at 743 Richmond Street. Part of the pitch being made to Monday’s committee meeting plays to our vanity (and feelings of inadequacy?) with the suggestion that “these displays generally make a statement that a community is vibrant, high-tech and an exciting region … Continue Reading

City of London Website Redesign

The City of London has redesigned it’s website, and my initial impression isn’t very favourable (not that I ever thought that the old layout was very good).
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