On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Worrying about this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/city-of-ottawa-service-reviews-2023-1.6744831

Apparently, we're supposed to get a lull in the waves of rainfall passing through town today.

More on other topics later. Like, perhaps some discussion of the city council's transportation committee meeting scheduled for later this morning. Not sure yet.

CBC Ottawa Reporter Joanne Chianello:

https://twitter.com/jchianello/status/1494280512592089088

And with Kate Porter:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/police-chief-diane-deans-1.6354150


Wow. This turned into an Unholy Mess. In addition to a serial cliffhanger story.

Finally.

*sad sigh*

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/convoy-protest-ottawa-sunday-impasse-1.6341548

Watching the closing deliberations get underway right now as I job-search:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8CaVYAyu80

https://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=8228&doctype=AGENDA

I can rationalise watching this YouTube livestream because the city is also a prospective employer, right?

Three jobs applied to today.

(And yet another offer from a company I'm not familiar with asking me to take up a contract in Toronto. I can't afford to move. Not yet, anyway.)

Watching full city council arguing over whether to go with an investigation by the city's auditor-general or a full judicial inquiry re: what exactly went wrong re: the first expansion of Ottawa's LRT system and why. It's been going for the better part of five hours so far, still in progress as I type this. It's gotten rather heated at times!

I see that New Shepherd 18 went without a hitch. Eleven minutes and, at age 90, William Shatner is now an astronaut in addition to everything else he's been across the decades, flawed as he's been.

What else? I think that I realized yesterday that I'd forgotten that I'd been borrowing a CPAP machine for at least a year before actually purchasing one. Memory issues...

- job search chores
- city council transit committee meeting broadcast via YouTube
- house chores
- walking exercise
- voting in the federal election
- other activities TBDL

For your reference:

https://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=8314&doctype=AGENDA

As I mentioned in the previous entry, this meeting is being broadcast on YouTube as I type this, and will be available for review after it's adjourned.

So I'm on the mailing list for this stuff. It's publicly available to anyone interested, and you can sign up at the City Hall website, ottawa.ca. I missed the Finance-EcDev committee meeting this morning, but want to remind myself re: tomorrow and Thursday of this stuff...

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Finance and Economic Development Committee – Tuesday, May 4 at 9:30 am

Presentation - The Ottawa Hospital’s new Civic Campus development - a transformational healthcare city building project - project update
Conservation Authorities – 2021 levies

Transportation Committee – Wednesday, May 5 at 9:30 am

St. Laurent Boulevard transit priority corridor (Hemlock Road to Innes Road) environmental assessment study - statement of work
Intelligent transportation systems and connected and automated vehicle update 2021
All way stop control at the intersection of Queen Mary Street and Vera Street
Speed reductions gateway zones in Lowertown, Sandy Hill and Vanier
All way stop control at the intersection at Sweetland Street and Osgoode Street

Agriculture and Rural Affairs – Thursday, May 6 at 10 am

Zoning By-law amendment - 5564 William McEwen Drive
Ottawa Rural Clean Water Program 2016-2020 review and renewal
Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendment - 2621 Donnelly Drive
Amendment to the engineer’s report for the Faulkner municipal drain
Open mic session - Osgoode Youth Association - rural Ottawa youth mental health collective survey results

For more information on City programs and services, visit ottawa.ca or call 3-1-1 (TTY: 613-580-2401). You can also connect with us through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

I went to the Shenkman Arts Centre last night. City Hall had announced a public briefing/Q&A session to discuss the plans for leveraging redevelopment goals from OC Transpo's "Phase 2" plans to expand O-Train service from Blair Station into Orléans itself, and I wanted to see what's going on with that. The plans are collectively referred to at City Hall's website as "the Orléans Transportation Corridor".



Briefly, I'd say that the session was informative, and while there was a preoccupation among many of my fellow attendees with the consequences of the O-Train for their driving, with needs for supporting infrastructure...the city representatives, including Orléans Ward councillor Matt Luloff, managed to get the word out about the wider ambitions of this plan.



Particular attention went to St. Joseph's Boulevard. If you've been able to visit that original "main street" of Orléans in recent days, you'll understand why City Hall might want to see some changes in the look of it. Many businesses are housed in facilities set well back from the sidewalk, with wide swathes of parking lot making pedestrian access to those buildings and the businesses they house more difficult than it's needed to be. Some of the more recent buildings added to St. Joseph - the new facilities for Shoppers Drug Mart, the Royal Bank, Farm Boy, etc. in particular - were built to accomodate this goal through specific incentive programs jointed referred to as a "Community Improvement Plan".

(The attendance was high enough to require the attendees to split into simultaneously-briefed sessions on the first and second floors. I attended the second-floor session in full, but managed to catch a glimpse of the ground-floor session towards its end on my way home.)



Ideally, the goal is to steer St. Joseph Boulevard to more closely resemble the Wellington West and ByWard Market "main street" areas.



(Making a note to add photographic detail for the neighbourhoods I'm referring to later in the day!)