Thank you to everyone who stepped forward to help out with parking on Sunday. We are all set.
Parking will be available at the Bonnie Doon Hall parking lot during Folk Fest, August 6 to 9. The lot opens at 4 p.m. Thursday/Friday and 7 a.m. on Saturday/Sunday.The league is working with Central Baptist Church to arrange parking at the hall parking lot. Cost will be $10 per vehicle. Vehicles that leave will not be permitted re-entry. We are very happy to be working with youth from Central Baptist on this initiative. They are raising money for a trip.
Thank you to everyone who stepped forward to help out with parking on Sunday. We are all set.
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Parking restrictions will be in effect on some streets in Bonnie Doon during Folk Fest, August 6 to 9. This is to ensure that emergency vehicle have access to north BD. In the past, our narrow streets were so plugged with parked cars, it was hard for ambulances or fire trucks to get through.
The league is once again working with the City of Edmonton to provide Folk Fest parking permits on certain streets. It looks like the City will restrict parking at the same addresses as in 2014; If your home is affected, you should have received a map in your mail last week (see map). Volunteers will distribute the permits at Bonnie Doon Hall for the fourth and final time: Sunday August 2, 1:30 pm to 3:30. For more information, please write to [email protected]. Volunteers in the Mill Creek Ravine area now have a monitoring kit to test the water flowing in Mill Creek. It includes tests for turbidity, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, phosphorus, nitrogen, and pH. The volunteers will be trained to measure the water quality in Mill Creek, part of Alberta's Creek Watch.
From albertawater.com: "Creek Watch enables you to help monitor your watershed. Creeks and streams are a vital part of watersheds; they provide water to drink and sustain plant and animal life. However, they can also be a pathway for pollution to spread, and they are often too numerous for water boards to monitor without help. "Creek Watch provides an easy way to lend a hand by reporting on any waterway you pass. We aggregate reports and share them with water control boards to help them track pollution, manage water resources, and plan environmental programs." For more information, write [email protected]. The Keepers of Mill Creek will hold their Annual General Meeting this month. Their president wrote to us... Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 Time: 7:00 pm Where: Bonnie Doon Hall, 9240 93 Street These are exciting times for our society. We are working with the city to Daylight Mill Creek (i.e. bring it back to the surface and reconnect it to the river via its original creek bed), and they have shown some positive signs that this is a possibility. However, we need to keep up the engagement and show them just how important Mill Creek is to us. Daylighting will mean the rejuvenation of our treasured creek, including the possibility of fish making the trip up the ravine from the North Saskatchewan River and spawning in its bed for the first time in 40 years! A bonus of this will be the further diversification of wildlife in the creek. For example, blue herons coming back to the creek to hunt those fish. In addition to this initiative, Mill Creek has been selected to be part of a provincial study being conducted on a number of Albertan creeks. This study will require volunteers to do regular water testing in the creek. [Creek Watch] As you can tell, there is plenty to be done. I really looking forward to seeing you at the AGM, to share in our successes and create a new future for Mill Creek Ravine. Best, Nancy Rempel President, The Keepers of Mill Creek If you want to attend the AGM, please write to [email protected] and we will forward to Nancy. Photo credit: Le Quartier Condos
Bonnie Doon has a number of group homes. We received notice of a possible change in the way the City approves development proposals for limited group homes.
What makes a group home limited? Basically, it is the small size (six residents) but the details are here. What is the proposed change? It turns on the difference between permitted and discretionary land us. From the City's definition: "There are two types of land uses, permitted and discretionary, in every zone. Permitted uses are those which must be approved by the Development Officer. "Discretionary uses are those which may be approved or refused at the discretion of the Development Officer, depending on how the proposed uses relate to surrounding areas and any applicable statutory plans. "All decisions of the Development Officer on a Development permit may be appealed to the Subdivision and Development Appeal Board (SDAB). However, the public will only be notified of their right to appeal in discretionary land use decisions." They City may change limited group homes from a permitted to a discretionary use. If this concerns you, please write to us. Our Civics Chair is Shauna Kuiper, [email protected]. We have a chance to feedback to the City, by August 10. We received this from Councillor Ben Henderson today... This construction season has seen a few high profile failures on the part of some builders to be respectful and neighbourly during construction. These problems are not new, but with our recent construction boom I have been receiving complaints into my office with increased frequency. I have been working with administration on a case by case basis on many of these sites, but the tools the City has had at its disposal have been largely inadequate to deal with some problem builders. Ideally our rules will be able to both address problems that do occur and prevent the problems in the first place. There are many respectful builders out there who take the time and effort to be good neighbours. Construction can be a disruptive process and we all try to be patient as our part of being neighbourly. But the poor practices of some have worn thin our patience even for respectful builders and this is harmful to everyone. My colleagues and I recently passed a motion asking Administration to provide a report with potential options the City could use to improve builder behavior. These options range from little things like requiring a copy of permits, including conditions, as well as contact information for the permit holder and the constructor to be prominently displayed at the front of the property; to good neighbor agreements between neighbours and builders; to construction bonds; to a certification or classification program for builders in mature neighbourhoods; and to turning the good neighbour residential infill guidelines into an enforceable document. Please feel free to contact me with your thoughts on potential rules to ensure good construction practices and I will pass them along to Administration while they write the report. Once the report is written it scheduled to come before Executive Committee on September 15 and members of the public are welcome and encouraged to come speak. The options that we select at committee will become the basis of potential new policies to regulate and ensure good builder behaviour. Please feel free to contact me anytime at [email protected] or at 780.496.8146. Follow me on Twitter @ben_hen. Photo by 630 CHED. See their piece, Communities feel ignored on infill issues.
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