by Ron Voss | Mar 13, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT The response of Cochrane’s Town Council to the request to not approve Bylaw 24/2024, the Municipal Development Plan as is on Third Reading at its March 10th meeting, was anticipated as providing an indication of whether Cochrane’s Town Council was...
by Ron Voss | Mar 9, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT For the upcoming Council Meeting on March 10th, according to agenda item 5a, the Cochrane councillors are being asked to give Third Reading to Bylaw 24/2024, Cochrane’s Municipal Development Plan, also entitled Envision Cochrane 2050, “as presented”. An...
by Ron Voss | Feb 19, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT Twenty years ago in 2004 Cochrane’s Town Council at that time voted to become a member of the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program, a program administered by the Canadian subsidiary of the International Council for Local Environmental...
by Ron Voss | Feb 15, 2025 | Cochrane
Three years ago on January 11, 2021, I made a presentation as a delegation to Cochrane’s Town Council objecting to the town’s participation in and support for the Calgary Metropolitan Region Board (CMRB), and with that, Dog With A Bone was born! The name came about...
by Ron Voss | Feb 14, 2025 | Cochrane
Twenty years ago in 2004 Cochrane’s Town Council at that time voted to become a member of the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program. This program, consisting of a five-step milestone framework that guides the municipality to take action against climate...
by Ron Voss | Jan 11, 2025 | Cochrane
This is to notify you of this upcoming event in Calgary. Maggie Hope Braun is a Canadian civic advocate from Ontario and the founder of the KICLEI Canada initiative, a movement dedicated to promoting localism over globalism by empowering communities to reclaim their...
by Ron Voss | Dec 11, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT Council’s second reading for Bylaw 24/2024, the Town’s new Municipal Development Plan (MDP), branded as Envision Cochrane 2050, which took place on December 9th, 2024, unexpectedly turned out to be a rather interesting and revealing meeting. Of...
by Ron Voss | Dec 3, 2024 | Cochrane
The Town of Cochrane describes its portal for public engagement at its website as “Let’s Talk Cochrane”. I believe it is time to “Let’s Really Talk Cochrane”. I invite you to join me at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at the...
by Ron Voss | Nov 29, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT In its report, “Public Hearing on How Cochrane Will Grow Sparsely Attended”, on the recent statutory public hearing for the town’s draft Municipal Development Plan (MDP), the Cochrane Eagle decided to frame the sparse attendance as...
by Ron Voss | Nov 25, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT The evening of November 25, I attended the Statutory Public Hearing for Cochrane’s Municipal Development Plan (MDP), Envision Cochrane 2050, one of the town’s most important planning documents. I was the only speaker responding to the draft MDP. FULL...