Walkable Ottawa
@WalkableO
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#Walkable #Ottawa is a non-profit group working to transition Ottawa's #neighbourhoods from auto-dependence to a culture of walking.
Ottawa ON Canada
Joined September 2020
Thanks to @JLeiper for identifying some of the hard choices we need to make on #planning when it comes to #climateaction. The #climate logic is clear: building compact, walkable 15-minute neighbourhoods (*not* more R1 zoning) is a #sprawl solution. Let's get it done!
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This is a great op-ed by Janet Mark Wallace. "All parking is pay parking, and usually the wrong people are paying." https://t.co/Sia7a7FNh5
ottawacitizen.com
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Check out one of our recent blog by contributor Janet Mark Wallace - The Ballad of the Soccer Mom: Read it here: https://t.co/oCAPGvkvGH
#walkable #ottawa #cityplanning #zoning #smartcities
walkableottawa.ca
In the beginning, was the City. And the City was without order. People, wagons, horses and oxen filled the streets. People produced wares...
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With today's debate over the new Official Plan, we're pleased to have joined with local groups such as @greenspaceott @JustFood_Ottawa @WalkableO @OttawaAlliance @CAWI_IVTF to propose a number of improvements to the document, covering a range of environmental and social issues.
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I’ve never thought of it this way: “you aren’t STUCK in traffic; you ARE traffic” @BrentToderian Mind blown! 💥💣🤯
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Planning & Council voting on Official Plan in coming weeks. Current Draft not going to get us the #walkable #neighborhoods we want. A few critical revisions could make a world of difference. We have 4 revisions that we see as critical. Read 3rd one here: https://t.co/BkLMRgcqzh
walkableottawa.ca
The value of modeling is clear. Simulation and modeling allow us to understand what is likely to happen under certain conditions.
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Planning & Council voting on Official Plan in coming weeks. Current Draft not going to get us the #walkable #neighborhoods we want. A few critical revisions could make a world of difference. We have 4 revisions that we see as critical. Read 2nd one here:
walkableottawa.ca
The City’s new Official Plan includes some terrific language that suggest a much-needed revised approach to intensification.
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Planning & Council voting on Official Plan in coming weeks. Current Draft not going to get us the #walkable #neighborhoods we want. A few critical revisions could make a world of difference. We have 4 revisions that we see as critical. Read 1st one here:
walkableottawa.ca
Why does intensification have to be so hard? ...Conflict around intensification is rooted in much more than just “resistance to change”.
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Location, location, location. Why land use is key to addressing the climate & housing affordability crises. https://t.co/Y6tNyqVlGx
@corporateknight @AlexBostopolis @ralphtorrie @VivreenVille @SP_Inst @LC3Canada @CWhitzman @WalkableO @EcologyOttawa @ScottMoffatt21 @AlainMiguelez
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New blog from contributing writer - XAVIER BRADBURY-JOST: "No business can survive without customers. Most businesses will tell you there’s no such thing as too many customers. There is, however, such a thing as too much parking.... https://t.co/4DgM9D26Hp
#walking #Urbandesign
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No business can survive without customers. Most businesses will tell you there’s no such thing as too many customers.
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How are residents of #ottawa communiting? https://t.co/zw5qmj0iAn
#activetravel #cars #cycling #walking #publictransport
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"Through 5 thousand years of urban living, people have lived over the shop. Mostly because it was the only possible arrangement. Urban dwellers with something to produce or sell had to do it out of the only space available, & that was usually their home." https://t.co/2wNXqbKTkU
walkableottawa.ca
Through five thousand years of urban living, people have lived over the shop. Mostly because it was the only possible arrangement.
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Today we are looking for individuals to support our Healthy Streets campaign here in Ottawa. If you want to see this framework implemented in the next transportation master plan please click this link below and sign!: https://t.co/GPljJVRo2M
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Our new blog - It’s Time We Were Thru with the Drive-Thru - Read it here: https://t.co/B3pRiBENfz
#walkable #cars
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Nothing is as difficult to incorporate into a walkable streetscape as a Drive-Thru. The whole concept is to be served in the car.
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BLOG POST: What We Can Learn from Harry the Dirty Dog - "The most difficult part of advocating for walkable communities in this age, is painting the picture of what they might look like..."READ the blog here: https://t.co/CJDhsdb22b
#walkable #walkability #urbandesign
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The most difficult part of advocating for walkable communities in this age, is painting the picture of what they might look like.
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"With all the #climatechange challenges facing us, do we have to devote so many resources to promoting car sales?" An excerpt from our blog. Read the rest here: https://t.co/YlHvzzKfEg - #walkable #activetransport #urbandesign
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Up until 1997, it was legal in Canada to advertise cigarettes. The ads that I remember from childhood consistently promised the smoker...
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Excerpt from our blog The Transformative Power of a Foot Bridge - "A #community that puts everyone within a 15 minute walk of goods and services, must above all have a healthy mix of people" Read the rest here: https://t.co/3SsgSpaKha
#ottawa #neighborhood
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"A footbridge makes it practical for the non-driving population to work, live or attend school on the other side of the bridge."
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cc: @CanadaWalks @BESTmobility @TCATonline @WalkableO @CycleToronto @BikeOttawa @BikeOttawaAWG @IFPedestrians @americawalks
We send emergency relief to areas hit by natural disasters...We help hospitals overrun w/ suffering patients...BUT WHY do we keep building roads that are known death traps for people walking? Time for change. Join us tomorrow: https://t.co/s8WyLIOkeG
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Turn Dows Lake into a giant garage? Please call your councilor! cc: @OttawaCity @OttawaHospital @WalkableO @RideauCanalNHS @EcologyOttawa @EnviroCentre @greenspaceA @JanesWalkOtt @BikeOttawa @DowsLakeOttawa @cmckenney @chernushenko @akellerherzog
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WORKSHOP TONIGHT - The People's Official Plan (POP) group is holding a workshop about Ottawa's draft Official Plan at 7pm. We've been collaborating with POP in advocacy for #walkable #neighbourhoods. Learn more & register here: https://t.co/4l5yzhocT2 - @EcologyOttawa
ecologyottawa.ca
POP supports the general policy directions and intentions in the draft Official Plan. We support building a more livable and compact city (i.e., intensification), public investments that will build a...
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