URBAN DEVELOPMENT

• Summers: Neighbourhoods can, and should, evolve [Edmonton Journal]
• Edmonton councillor hopes to take mistrust out of infill housing conversation [Edmonton Journal]
• City releases the 2014 Vacant Land Inventory Report [City of Edmonton]
• Edmonton developer plans welcoming urban village near Stadium LRT station [Edmonton Journal]
• Lamphier: Long an urban backwater, 105th Avenue is coming to life [Edmonton Journal]
• Decoteau area redevelopment that could house 75,000 people wins council support [Edmonton Journal]
• Aspects of MacEwan University’s Centre for Arts and Culture deferred as project runs over budget [Edmonton Journal]
• Edmonton arena proponents tout potential of Wintergarden pedway [Metro Edmonton]

TRANSPORTATION

• Vision Zero: Imagine an Edmonton with zero traffic-related fatalities [Metro Edmonton]
• Edmonton public school trustee wants photo radar cash redirected to slow school zone speeders [Metro Edmonton]
• City of Edmonton taking early steps on new parking deal with Pogo [Metro Edmonton]
• Demand for bike parking in downtown Edmonton shifts a gear [Metro Edmonton]
• Groat closed until approximately April 7 says City of Edmonton, professor identifies likely cause [Metro Edmonton]
• It could be weeks before source of buckling 102nd Avenue bridge girders is found: engineer [Edmonton Journal]
• Etiquette focus of Edmonton Transit “I’m an ETS hero” campaign [Metro Edmonton]
• Safe Walk programs get smarter after Edmonton transit incidents [Metro Edmonton]
• Asphalt Nerds: The alchemy of pavement in Canada’s pothole capital [The Walrus]

YEG [HI]STORIES

• Mouallem: Is the City of Edmonton obligated to keep the historic buildings it just purchased? [Metro Edmonton]
• City of Edmonton doing restoration on Rossdale Power Plant [Metro Edmonton]
• Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Parish [Edmonton City As Museum Project]
• Oral history project documents city’s ‘smaller stories’ [Edmonton Journal]
• Rare Lancaster bomber to land permanently at Alberta Aviation Museum [Edmonton Journal]

LOCAL NEWS

• First piece of public art for new arena to be announced Monday [Edmonton Journal]
• Bullish on Farmers’ Markets [Avenue Edmonton]
• New grocery options heading to Jasper Avenue [Edmonton Journal]
• Edmonton councillors to look at expanding backyard bees city-wide [Metro Edmonton]
• Model sewage plant wins Edmonton Lego-building contest [Edmonton Journal]
• City ‘optimistic and hopeful’ Red Bull Crashed Ice will return to Edmonton [Edmonton Journal]
• Alberta introduces new rules for municipalities [Metro Edmonton]

MISCELLANY

• Ste-Catherine Street to get heated sidewalks [CBC News]
• Vancouver: How not to conduct a transit plebiscite [Globe and Mail]
• Calgary pedestrian strategy eyes right-on-red ban in some areas [Calgary Herald]
• Canadians are increasingly choosing urban life over the suburbs, here’s what’s driving the shift [BuzzBuzzHome News]
• Our cities can lead the challenge to solve climate change [Globe and Mail]
• Our cities must undergo a revolution for older people [The Guardian]
• Condo buyers, in ‘enormous shift,’ saying no thanks to parking [Toronto Star]
• Why Buses Should Let You Board Through Any Door, in 2 Charts [CityLab]
• Apples and Tomatoes: Comparing Community Gardens and Municipally Sponsored Urban Agriculture [Sustainable Cities Collective]