Making our city plan a little more Currant

Speaking Municipally is back from summer break with a special episode featuring Kalen Anderson, the director of (The) [Edmonton] City Plan.

Show Notes

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Media Layoffs

• Jim Pattison Broadcast Group offers early retirement, lays off 40 in pandemic cuts

Mask Compliance

• News Release: Four-out-of-five Edmontonians observed wearing face coverings over the long weekend

Electric Buses

• News Release: History in the making: ETS deploys first electric bus into service

Guest: Kalen Anderson

• @KalenAnderson on Twitter
• LinkedIn

City Plan

• The City Plan
• Guidebook for preparing a municipal development plan
• Video: How do we plan for a future of one million more Edmontonians?
• A transformational City Plan for a changing Edmonton
• Edmonton’s Demographic is Changing the Way We Look at Neighbourhoods
• Keith Gerein: An Edmonton of two million needs aggressive plan, political discipline
• Edmonton city council votes to remove minimum parking requirements

Speak to us!

• Voicelink.fm

Speaking Municipally is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network: locally grown, community supported. This week we talked about Shift, a podcast from Alberta Innovates that showcases "the work being done in the province’s innovation ecosystem in everything from health to clean energy." We also highlighted World on Fire, a podcast from CBC Edmonton that "takes you to the front lines of out of control wildfires in Canada, Australia, and California."

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