Wedging in affordable housing
Notes de l’épisode
Council has approved selling land to an affordable housing provider, despite community pushback. Plus, some restaurant owners will have to pay more for patios this year, and we have updates on infill and snow clearing.
Here are the relevant links for this episode:
Audience survey
Update on infill
- Edmonton council votes to keep infill maximum at eight units
- Edmonton city councillor's motion to change infill cap from 8 units to 6 fails
Update on snow clearing
- City to deploy private contractors at start of snow-clearing work after Tuesday's storm
- City 70 per cent through priority Edmonton roads as Phase 1 parking ban takes effect
Affordable housing in Wedgewood
- Edmonton council to sell Wedgewood Heights surplus school site for housing project
- Council gives green light a 2nd time around for Wedgewood Park housing development in animated public hearing
Patio fees
- Edmonton businesses contemplate future of patio season after seeing new hefty fee
- Peter Keith post on LinkedIn
Northmark Materials funding
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