Across The Table with Dionysius
Oct 8, 2026 · 20 min · 8 segments
Send us Fan Mail Paul Meek joins us to discuss his campaign vision for the upcoming municipal elections. Learn his goals for the community.As we…
i think stittsville is a much easier city much easier ward to get around um we've got robert grant extended we've got stittsville main street extended um we've got some parks in place people saying hey i've got to love this new neighborhood but when's that park showing up and we definitely have a lot more services for young people so one of the things we're hearing a lot of hey paul this you know my neighborhood's great until my kid's 10 years old right now they're 11 to 15 there's nothing to do they can't shoot a basketball they can't draw a picture to save their life And now they're bored and they're getting in trouble.
So by addressing the ability to get around the ward and also having better services within the ward, that would be a nice little 10-year-out
Speaking of that growth, growth needs roads, pipes, parks, like you just mentioned.
There's a bit of a chicken and egg thing, right, in terms of, hey, if we reduce development charges, can we get more people? I get the thought there, can we get more houses built right now? But it unfortunately choked ourselves out down the road where we need those development charges to pay
When it comes to the city, there's always that short-term, long-term thing, right? But it's from the grand perspective, the development charges need to be in place to pay for those services.
The running joke right now is, I've been in Stittsville for 24 years, and we have a recreation complex called the Cardale Rec Center.
which is the Goldburn Rec Center, because it's so old that it was there before Stittsville became Stittsville.
i think stittsville is a much easier city much easier ward to get around um we've got robert grant extended we've got stittsville main street extended um we've got some parks in place people saying hey i've got to love this new neighborhood but when's that park showing up and we definitely have a lot more services for young people so one of the things we're hearing a lot of hey paul this you know my neighborhood's great until my kid's 10 years old right now they're 11 to 15 there's nothing to do they can't shoot a basketball they can't draw a picture to save their life And now they're bored and they're getting in trouble.
So by addressing the ability to get around the ward and also having better services within the ward, that would be a nice little 10-year-out
Speaking of that growth, growth needs roads, pipes, parks, like you just mentioned.
There's a bit of a chicken and egg thing, right, in terms of, hey, if we reduce development charges, can we get more people? I get the thought there, can we get more houses built right now? But it unfortunately choked ourselves out down the road where we need those development charges to pay
When it comes to the city, there's always that short-term, long-term thing, right? But it's from the grand perspective, the development charges need to be in place to pay for those services.
The running joke right now is, I've been in Stittsville for 24 years, and we have a recreation complex called the Cardale Rec Center.
which is the Goldburn Rec Center, because it's so old that it was there before Stittsville became Stittsville.
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