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Ottawa Planning Staff Analyze Bill 23: Local Impacts Are Grim

When “Dozer Doug” Ford decided to drop Bill 23 aka “More Homes Built Faster Act” on October 25th, a day after the municipal election, planning staff in many municipalities scrambled to analyze what this bill would mean. We know it will line the pockets of Ford’s developer friends, but how will it impact municipalities… and ultimately the taxpayers that fund them.

The Planning Staff in Ottawa scoured over the document and looked at what the changes would mean for the City and prepared a report for the consideration of their Council. Their findings paint a grim picture of the local impacts that the Bill will have upon their city, and by extension, other municipalities.

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Council 2018-2022: That’s A Wrap! Let The Information Flow

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With the final regular meeting of the 2018-2022 Council now in the history books, analysis can now start on the information that has been gathered in the past 4 years. It might have been fun to use an ancient mainframe to do this, but today’s computers are far more powerful on several orders of magnitude and speed is what we need.

With almost 400 meetings, nearly half of them Council/Committee of the Whole meetings and about 700 recorded votes in the GCFRG database, there is a lot of data to draw upon… and the stories surrounding them to be told.

As always, this site will continue to keep the community aware of matters, past and present, so they can make their own fully-informed decisions in the upcoming municipal election.