CITY HALL • Committee gives Ottawa South pedestrian bridge the go-ahead (ctv.ca) • Green bin collection gets rolling (Ottawa Citizen) 2010 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS • Cullen announces intention to vie for mayor’s chair (Ottawa Citizen) • Gauthier joins race, will Watson follow?(Metronews.ca) CYCLING • City considers segregated bike lanes (cbc.ca) • Doucet peddles new cycling plan for city (Ottawasun.com) NCC • Feds pour $35M into NCC for Ottawa-area facelifts (Metronews.ca) photo by Simon Pulisifier

CLIMATE CHANGE • Our Cities Are Hotbeds of Climate Action (TheTyeee.ca) COUNCIL WATCH • City Council Environmental Report Card (Ecology Ottawa) • City of Ottawa plans cut to buy-local program (CBC) HOUSING • Ottawa, provinces huddle to get housing cash spent (Ottawa Citizen) MUNICIPAL PARTIES • Parties can pump new blood into city politics (Ottawa Citizen) URBAN DESIGN & LANSDOWNE • Seven members of Ottawa's design review panel resign (Ottawa Citizen) • Frustrated architects dump panel: Hope en masse resignation will ‘humiliate’ City Hall into designing a better Ottawa (Ottawa Citizen) • Councillors debate weight of public feedback on Lansdowne Park decision (EMC ...

COUNCIL WATCH • 'Everybody loses’ in bus strike with city’s tally put at $5.9M (Ottawa Citizen) • Let's end parochial municipal politics (Centretown News) • City Government for the people (Ottawa Citizen) • Luxury Spending (Ottawa Citizen) DESIGN & PUBLIC SPACE • City hears plea to buy former school (Ottawa Citizen) • Tim and Pat Murray: From Alcan to the Pope (Ottawa Citizen) ENVIRONMENT • The green bin mile (Ottawa Citizen) • Clean river a costly proposition (Ottawa Citizen) • Ottawa Columnist Argues HOV lanes Hurt the Environment (CityCaucus Blog) photo by ...

URBAN & CITY DESIGN • Ottawa in the year 2050, Architects, designers share their vision of Canada’s capital (Ottawa Citizen) • Development 'is not a bad thing' Reflect on process, urban-issues critic (Ottawa Citizen) COUNCIL WATCH • Committee Rejects Donation Ban (CFRA.com) • You're stuck with it: Budget news goes from bad to worse (Ottawa Citizen) • City Government for the people (Ottawa Citizen) • City Council approves LRT as Ottawa’s rail technology choice (OttawaStart.com) • Why they voted the way they did on Lansdowne (Ottawa Citizen) photo by Jonathan Crowe