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Extra, Extra: Naming Babies, Saving Transit City
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- Torontonians aren’t quite as willing to let go of Transit City as their mayor is, it seems—at least not all of them are. One, developer Joe Drew, has just launched a website devoted to the cause of rescuing the light rail plan from the dustbin of Toronto planning history: SaveTransitCity.com. In two interviews today, he explains why, and why now.
- Also in TTC planning issues: should developers pay more for the privilege of building near subway stations (because the real estate is more valuable) or less (to create incentives for transit-oriented construction)? OpenFile has an easy decoder explaining development charges, which are one of the City’s most important sources of revenue.
- Important trend news from the provincial government! Ethan and Olivia are, again, the most popular names given to babies born in Ontario this year. You can also expect to meet many new infants named Liam, Jacob, Emma, and Isabella.
- In a nod to the slow pace of change, Ontario also came out with this bit of news today: the deadline for phasing out incandescent light bulbs has been extended by two years, to 2014. The policy aims at reducing our collective energy consumption by switching us to more efficient bulbs; the date change will keep the provincial government in step with the feds, who already extended the timeline for the national phase-out.
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