Community Services Committee

• City now testing app to learn where people don’t feel safe in Edmonton

  Testing has begun on an app that will allow people to use their smartphones to document any place in Edmonton you feel threatened, anxious or simply not safe.

  Crime

  May 27, 2019
  
• Edmonton city council weighing options on making public marijuana rules tougher

  Sensing a 30 metre buffer zone between kids, and people using marijuana in public places, Councillor Michael Walters says he's considering an outright ban in parks when council votes on the bylaw next week.

  Lifestyle

  Jul 4, 2018
  
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• Edmonton has photo radar-like device to measure noisy vehicles

  Councillor Scott McKeen hopes that by the summer of 2019, city staff will be able to have a reliable measuring system in place that will send tickets to noisy drivers in the mail.

  Politics

  Apr 4, 2018
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• Edmonton councillors look at how to protect citizens’ air quality

  A woman has successfully convinced city council's community services committee to help her with a nasty neighbour that endlessly chokes the neighbourhood with fumes from his truck.

  Politics

  Nov 7, 2017
• Spools of red tape frustrate community league project groups

  After hearing story after story of community leagues being bogged down in red tape, a council committee hopes to change the culture. But they'll have to study it first.

  Politics

  Nov 6, 2017