In collaboration with community partners, we hosted seven Tree Giveaways this fall, increasing tree canopy on private land, and bringing all the benefits of trees to Ottawa neighbourhoods.

More that they never do anything but drive and park very close.

Wow, that is a great "backstory"!

I thought you guys had this debate about 4 years ago.

Well, now you've passed the earworm to me, you should now be free!

Go to them and say “this is the as of right dev potential of your land” in sq ft and units. “And this is the property tax you’d be paying on it.” And give them a year to get going. Year three: charge 10% of those taxes. 20% next year and so on. Within a few years they’re either paying taxes w/no 2/

Lots of private urban parking lots shouldn't exist either if we had an appropriate tax in place. It's crazy that almost every block in Centretown has a privately owned surface lot.

With the cost of land and the housing shortage there should be a massive rush to replace them with homes!

I suspect many non US progressives have muted words dominating US politics. It's mental health self care

Bluesky until very recently didn't have notifications. It was better for broadcast than dialogue. The lopping off of those in a thread also discouraged dialogue.

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Part of the fix is to agree Kanata to Parliament will not be one LRT. We don't have to use the same tools everywhere.

Oxymoron alert! Lol

Whimsy. Ottawa lacks whimsy.