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	<description>Councillor Rob Lantz - Charlottetown &#124; Ward 3 (Brighton)</description>
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		<title>Getting Things Fixed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last spring I quietly followed the steps to have Charlottetown listed on FixMyStreet.ca, a service maintained by Visible Government which is &#8220;a Canadian non-profit that promotes online tools for government transparency.&#8221; All that was required was an ESRI shapefile defining the geographic borders of each city ward (helpfully provided by a friend with friends at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2010/01/07/390</link>
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		<title>Spencer Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a problem with crosstown traffic in Charlottetown, particularly in the busy commercial north end of the city. If I&#8217;m traveling out North River Road, once I pass Belvedere Avenue my eastbound options are limited. Since you can&#8217;t access the bypass from Lower Malpeque, it is a full 3.5 km from Belevedere to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2010/01/05/378</link>
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		<title>My Thoughts on Sunday Shopping, FWIW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Personally, I think Sunday shopping should be allowed year-round. I had never read the Province&#8217;s Sunday shopping legislation and I was curious, hypothetically speaking, if the City might be able to enact its own bylaw should Council ever want to do that. But, as I discovered, the Act specifically says that it supersedes any municipal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2010/01/05/375</link>
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		<title>Council Chamber Panorama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took this panoramic photo using the Pano app on my iPhone after our monthly public meeting of council, December 14th, 2009. It is stitched together from four separate photographs.
In the doorway on the left is reporter Steve MacDougall interviewing Councillor Mitch Tweel (unseen). Mayor Clifford Lee is the blurry man-on-the-move in the center. To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2009/12/14/368</link>
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		<title>Market Economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Josh Biggley, writing at the excellent new Spacing Atlantic blog, makes the case for another farmer&#8217;s market in Charlottetown. The market on Belvedere Avenue is, by some measures, a victim of its own considerable success. Josh believes the market will support another market and invites readers to post their suggestions on a collaborative Google Map. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2009/11/26/366</link>
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		<title>Queen &amp; Pond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been two serious vehicle-student collisions at the intersection of Queen St. and Pond St. in the three years I&#8217;ve been on council; one in early 2007, and one last week involving two boys. Early in my term I worked with the principal of Queen Charlotte Intermediate School to make improvements to the crosswalk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2009/11/25/359</link>
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		<title>Another New Hotel for Charlottetown?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Banks says he has been &#8220;looking at some hotel concepts in the US and Canada for the Charlottetown marketplace&#8221; and he has &#8220;lined up some investors&#8221;. The reaction I get when I mention this to people today seems to range from disbelief that our market can support another hotel, to suggestions that Tim is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2009/11/19/355</link>
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		<title>Refocusing on Community Policing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My response to today&#8217;s lead editorial in the Guardian, submitted as a letter to the editor:
A recent Guardian editorial (Community policing equals safer cities, August 12, 2009) discussed the elimination by the Charlottetown Police Services (CPS) of its Community Policing Officer position. As noted, this move was a recommendation in the Organizational Review &#38; Evaluation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2009/08/12/345</link>
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		<title>About that Roundabout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week a group of business operators pleaded with City Council to reconsider our decision to build a roundabout at the intersection of Allen Street and Mt. Edward Road. Notable for their absence was D.P. Murphy Inc, who have had their share of traffic problems at this intersection. I&#8217;ll take their absence as approval [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2009/07/10/334</link>
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		<title>Well Done, or Not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Councillor and Chair of the Police &#38; Bylaw Enforcement Committee, Bruce Garrity, sent me a copy of a letter he submitted to the Guardian in which he offers praise for the recent focus on traffic enforcement, but also some criticism on other matters. He asked me to reply to his comments on the police, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2009/07/03/324</link>
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		<title>Canada Day Family Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a reminder that despite my post from eleven months ago (Get Out Your Picnic Blankets) Canada Day is NOT coming back to Victoria Park this year. Instead, Tourism Charlottetown and its Canada Day corporate sponsors are refocusing on fun, family-friendly activities from June 27th to July 1st. The City and Tourism Charlottetown agreed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2009/06/23/318</link>
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		<title>Crossposted Comment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I submitted the following comment on Tim Banks&#8217; blog. The comment is still awaiting moderation so I thought I better post it here also, for the record:
Tim&#8230; thanks for the kind words. There&#8217;s just one thing I&#8217;d like to clarify. When I ran for council I made a firm commitment to my employer that company [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ward3brighton.ca/blog/2009/05/29/316</link>
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