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What’s going on at City Hall.
 

Environment and Climate Change Committee
Tuesday, November 21 at 9:30 am

• Ceremonial presentation – Rain-Ready Program 2023
• Referral - Council Motion - Banning of organic waste from landfills
• 2024 Draft Operating and Capital Budget - Environment and Climate Change Committee
• Draft Solid Waste Master Plan (Phase 3)
• Environmental Assessment process for the expansion of the Trail Waste Facility landfill
• Water rate structure review framework and update
• Streamlining the provisions for distinctive trees in the Tree Protection By-law
• Status update – Environment and Climate Change Committee – inquiries and motions for the period ending November 9, 2023
• Motion – Councillor T. Tierney – Enbridge - St. Laurent Boulevard maintenance

📋 Agenda

Accessibility Advisory Committee
Tuesday, November 21 at 6:00 pm

• On-demand transit demonstration pilot project
• 2024 Draft Operating and Capital Budgets - Accessibility Advisory Committee
• Working groups updates
• Accessibility Office update

📋 Agenda

⚕️ Emergency Rooms

•  Health Quality Ontario has worked out the waiting times for Ottawa emergency rooms. The city’s hospitals were appalling by pretty much all measures, with the average wait time in emergency rooms across Ontario being two hours.
  
  • Ottawa Hospital General Campus – 4.4 hours
  • CHEO – 3.3 hours
  • Queensway-Carleton Hospital – 3.2 hours
  • Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus – 3.1 hours
  • Montfort Hospital – 2.6 hours
  
  If you are in ambulance, you should probably request they take you to Montfort. You’ll get seen hours sooner, even if you included trip through a Timmy’s drive-through.
  
  (Josh Pringle at CTV)

🏗️ Development

•   Stittsville ward councillor Glen Gower and Mayor Mark Sutcliffe want to change Ottawa’s official plan tomorrow without any public hearings. When the Province unilaterally modified the City’s official plan earlier this year to allow development in greenbelts, it also increased the height of buildings on minor corridors from four storeys to between six and nine storeys. Now that the Province has been caught bending its own rules over development, it has returned the official plan to what it was two years ago. Gower and Sutcliffe have a proposal tomorrow to change the official plan unilaterally back to what the Province had previously changed unilaterally. (Ottawa Bulldog)
  
  ➕ Related A 27 storey building has been approved in Centretown by the planning and housing committee. The existing heritage five storey Legion House on Kent Street will be dismantled then rebuilt within the building. The building will have 289 residential apartments. City Council will approve or not tomorrow.

🗞️ Lowertown Echo

•  Actual printed newspaper the Lowertown Echo wants to hear from the public about what it needs to do to increase readership. They probably mostly want to hear from Lowertowners, but the ottawan is always amenable to promoting print. (Lowertown Echo survey)  

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