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Drive-thru ban motors through
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Drive-thru debate hot in Comox
By Colleen Dane – Comox Valley Record
Published: October 22, 2009 6:00 PM
Accusations of bloc voting to force an [...]
How about ZERO emission zones?
Innovative ideas like low-emission zones need to be backed up by more effective regulation, says the report
Highlights:
Eco-crime
The report calls for stronger regulation:
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Cyclists and pedestrians: how to avoid traffic pollution
Ecologist
13th October, 2009
New research on the distribution of air pollution has found that existing government monitoring may be inadequate
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Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at the University [...]
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Four Degrees of Devastation
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Environmentalists, disabled, businesses clash over drive-thrus
By Christiana Wiens, Comox Valley EchoOctober 8, 2009
The public and businesses have had their say. Now it’s up to seven-member Comox council to determine the fate of future drive-thru businesses in the town.
A public hearing on a bylaw to limit drive-thru restaurants in Comox to two corners of Anderton and [...]
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Drive-thru debating continues
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Drive-thru debate hot in Comox
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By Erin Haluschak – Comox Valley Record
Published: October 08, 2009 6:00 PM
Updated: October 08, 2009 6:07 PM
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With nearly a 2-1 margin favouring a proposed zoning amendment that would prohibit new drive-thus within Comox town limits, residents and business owners alike [...]
If Collingwood is serious about idle-free status it should ban drive-throughs
Date: Sep 23, 2009
The expansion of the Collingwood’s anti-idling by-law is not complete until it includes a ban on drive-throughs. As a city, we proudly display our idle-free status on the sign on the road into town, yet, Ironically, one of the first things you [...]
Yes, we’re anti-car
Comox Valley Echo October 5, 2009
The "Drive-Thru" people have really gone too far this time. Who do they think they are? Much as they would like to think so, they do not have a God given right to erect drive-thrus wherever they please. They do so at the discretion of the local councils [...]
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Sides prepare ammunition for drive-thru public hearing
By Christiana Wiens, Comox Valley EchoOctober 5, 2009
A public hearing on the future of drive-thru restaurants in Comox is heating up with two petitions expected to come before council.
The meeting – set for the d’Esterre House at 7 p.m. Wednesday – will see the Comox [...]
