Towards A More “Reasonable” Ontario Municipal Board: Looking To Nova Scotia

The powerful Ontario Municipal Board (OMB, or the Board) has long been maligned as an unelected provincial body with the authority to meddle with local land-use planning decisions. Concurrently, politicians have been accused of abusing the purpose of the OMB by pushing politically contentious decisions on the Board, rather than oppose an active neighbourhood association. This paper argues that these issues stem from the Board’s "standard of review", which guides the OMB to make the "most correct" decision, sometimes in opposition to the municipality. If the OMB adopted a standard of review of "reasonableness" when reviewing land use planning appeals like the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board does, much greater deference would be given to municipalities by the Board. This would keep the expertise of the OMB intact, without the radical impacts to development that may accompany the creation of a new process for appealing municipal decisions.

Towards A More “Reasonable” Ontario Municipal Board: Looking To Nova Scotia

The powerful Ontario Municipal Board (OMB, or the Board) has long been maligned as an unelected provincial body with the authority to meddle with local land-use planning decisions. Concurrently, politicians have been accused of abusing the purpose of the OMB by pushing politically contentious decisions on the Board, rather than oppose an active neighbourhood association. This paper argues that these issues stem from the Board’s "standard of review", which guides the OMB to make the "most correct" decision, sometimes in opposition to the municipality. If the OMB adopted a standard of review of "reasonableness" when reviewing land use planning appeals like the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board does, much greater deference would be given to municipalities by the Board. This would keep the expertise of the OMB intact, without the radical impacts to development that may accompany the creation of a new process for appealing municipal decisions.

Hydroponic Website and App to Help Communities in the Pandemic Time

Hydroponic marketing app, is one of the solutions to accelerate employment problems for the community. Management of marketing information systems requires advanced technology, because information is one of the things that is very important for a company or institution time by time. Using a website media and its derivative media, namely social media app, that are well managed, delivered by thoughts and concepts of the lecturers from a university can help a community by social working. The problems of Neighbourhood Association (RT07) and Citizens Association (RW02) community members in Sarijadi Urban Village in Bandung can be overcome by increasing the interest of members of Empowerment and Family Welfare (PKK) and supported by Youth Organization (Karang Taruna) to cultivate Hydroponic plants.

The representativeness of neighbourhood associations in Toronto and Vancouver

Neighbourhood associations are major players in urban politics throughout North American cities and increasingly are becoming a political force in other parts of the world. However, while there is a rich and well-developed literature on the role played by neighbourhood associations in urban politics, few studies examine whether their membership reflects the socio-demographic composition and interests of the broader public. This paper addresses this gap in the literature using survey data from voters conducted during the Vancouver and Toronto 2018 municipal elections. We compare the responses of participants who identify as members of neighbourhood associations (or their equivalents) with those of the broader voting public. We find that members of neighbourhood associations in both cities are not representative of the broader population. They are more likely to be white, older and have higher education than the average voter. In addition, while the ideology of neighbourhood association members differs little from that of the broader public, their policy priorities are different from those of the majority of voters in both cities. Our findings suggest that neighbourhood associations fail in providing descriptive representation and may not offer substantive representation. These findings raise important questions about the role of neighbourhood associations in local governance. Our study also demonstrates the merit of using individual-level surveys to learn more about the composition and policy preferences of neighbourhood associations.

The White Center. A First Step of the Civic Remembrance System in Bon Pastor (Barcelona)

Following the development in 2011 of the Mural of Remembrance in Baró de Viver (Barcelona) the adjacent district of Bon Pastor, showed interest in a symbolic and artistic element of similar characteristics. However, from the beginning, Bon Pastor neighbours expressed the idea that writing their remembrance should not be performed on a linear support, but should be distributed by the territory. The research team of the Polis Research Centre started a participatory process (not yet completed) within the framework of cooperation agreements between the Centre, the Neighbourhood association and the local authorities of the Sant Andreu district. At the same time, the subject of this “memory space system” became a topic to be developed by one of the, interdisciplinary and international, teams of students of the Master in Urban Design, Universitat de Barcelona. This article presents the progress made.

Model optimalisasi peran Ketua Rukun Tetangga dalam mencegah perceraian

The rising number of divorce in Purbalingga encourages the idea to optimize the divorce prevention effort by conducting family resilience counsulting. The target is neighbourhood association whose members are mostly men. Approach to them are necessary because they were rarely became the target of family counseling. As a social organization, activities within neighbourhood association are highly depends on its chairman. This research analyzes (1) neighbourhood association chairman's view regarding the divorces phenomena in Purbalingga Regency and (2) their roles in prevent divorces in their area. This research was conducted in District of Purbalingga which has high number of divorce cases. Sample locations for this research consist of four urban areas which purposively selected using chairman as responden. Data obtained through questionnaires and discussion groups, analyzed by simple quantitative techniques. The study shows that, firstly, most of respondents are lacking of awareness of the divorces phenomena in Purbalingga regency. This is because the association never receives the information or report of divorces. Second, there are several respondents that reported their cases to chairmen, but most of chairmen did not have the power to prevent it, because people who asked for divorce administration letter had their final decision to separate with their partner. Results lead to conclusion that the effort to decrease the number of divorce can be held by giving continual consultation to men about family resilience.