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Policies & Threats Related to Greenspaces

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The City’s new proposals and decision

After a summer of reworking its Spring proposals, on October 3, 2016 the City tabled its revised recommendations.  The slides used by staff at the October 18 Environment Committee meeting are here. Earlier, the City issued a What We Heard report about the Spring consultations.  Find it here (1 MB). Following the Environment Committee meeting, the Clerk’s Office made a 74-page file available containing submissions from 50 citizens, redacted for

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The Greenspace Alliance’s submission

Water Rate Structure Review – 2015/16 Here is our submission to Environment Committee on May 19, 2015: (as PDF here) The Greenspace Alliance welcomes this review. We especially applaud the inclusion of consideration of separate stormwater cost recovery and creation, with its own budget, of a Surface Water Management Branch in Environmental Services. We are aware of ample studies in other jurisdictions (in Ontario and elsewhere) that demonstrate that a)

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