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Treating Ice District Plaza like a non-public liquor venue gained’t make it safer, so why are we permitting households and teenagers to be banned from a plaza that taxpayers have been promised would serve the entire neighborhood?
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Whereas it’s straightforward to see how sending “freeloading” households over to Churchill Sq. permits Ice District to squeeze extra drinkers into their venue and earn more money, the info unequivocally says that decreasing the density of intoxicated younger adults per sq. metre by encouraging combined crowds makes everybody safer.
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An trustworthy threat evaluation means that Ice District Plaza’s capability and alcohol gross sales ought to be restricted barely to keep up security and permit different venues within the metropolis to stay aggressive. Moderately than letting Ice District triple their alcohol gross sales, we must always query a game-day monopoly that will increase volatility, leaves leisure districts like Whyte Avenue noticeably under-capacity and eliminates equitable entry to a taxpayer-subsidized area.
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Andrew Blimke, Edmonton
Rental e-bikes a spring eyesore
I used to be heading off to the college space at the moment and noticed a variety of indicators of spring in Edmonton. I noticed folks wearing shorts and golf shirts, I noticed a variety of folks biking to work, I noticed many birds flying and flowers blooming and, sadly, I additionally noticed many deserted e-cycles.
I counted no fewer than 17 e-cycles, dumped on folks’s lawns and jettisoned on sidewalks and in bushes. Clearly, regardless of the metropolis considered as their supposed function isn’t working and so they have merely devolved into pleasure rides which might be deserted wherever and every time the minimal rental time expires. They’re an eyesore. Time to both correctly regulate them or eliminate them.
Bob Thompson, Edmonton
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Promote tree planting with tax credit
The tree cowl in Edmonton is a number of the greatest on this planet; the article states 13-per-cent protection. I stay in a mature neighbourhood with massive boulevards. Elm, maple and ash bushes flourish on the city-owned property and a big number of different bushes on the personal properties. Taking a look at an aerial view, Holyrood and different established neighbourhoods are extra like 25-30-per-cent cowl, whereas new, crowded neighbourhoods are predominantly two- and three-storey buildings which might be utilizing significantly greater than the beforehand mandated 40-per-cent building-to-land ratio. These components alone deter tree development, to the detriment of those areas. I believe the acknowledged 13-per-cent is an averaged metropolis protection, so it follows that the brand new areas shall be lower than the acknowledged protection.
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I’m all in favor of defending and enhancing the tree cowl, however leaving this within the palms of council and administration shouldn’t be the pathway given their lack of success on bridges, parks, LRT, transit and exorbitant bike-lane plans. Right here is my suggestion: Create some type of tax credit score to landowners who do the planting and care of latest and current bushes. That is entrance and centre of the town’s capabilities; they shine relating to taxation.
Roger F. Kehoe, Edmonton
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