Space Elevator Technology:
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Future Vision
Space Elevator Technology:
The Space Elevator concept is a structure extending from the surface of the
Earth to geo-stationary Earth orbit (GEO). Its center of mass is at GEO such
that the entire structure orbits the Earth in sync with the Earth’s rotation
maintaining a stationary position over its base attachment at the equator. It is
envisioned that such a structure would be used as a mass transportation
system in the latter part of the 21st century for transporting people, payloads,
gasses and power between Earth and space.
(For additional information contact the Advanced Projects Office at the NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center, Flight Projects Directorate, FD02 Advanced
Projects Office, Huntsville, AL 35812)
The New City-State Economy in the 21st Century:
1. education and training
2. conventions and tourism
3. entertainment and casinos
4. technology, multi media and internet
5. health sciences, services and spa
6. national institute of sports
7. finance and banking
8. marine biology
9. space elevator and power
10. duty free shopping
The Entrepreneur in the Year 2000 and Beyond- Steps for Success
1. You need to be in the part of the economy where all boats are rising. In the 1970s and 1980s, any fool could and did make money in the real estate market when inflation was 5 to 10% pa.
2. In 1982, Paul Volker killed this bubble economy by driving up interest rates to 18 to 21%.
3. Mr. Volker, head of the Federal reserve set the stage for low inflation, high productivity growth that we have seen in the 1990s.
4. Bank of Japan burst the bubble economy there in 1989; real estate prices collapsed by more than 50% (Tokyo's real estate was at the time worth more than all of the continental USA).
5. Today, people in the new economy are enjoying full employment, rising wages, increasing productivity- cool lives.
6. People in the old economy are treading water or falling behind.
7. The difference is between the learning economy (where higher education just sets the stage for lifelong learning and where organizations must learn and adapt to constant change) and an old, heirarchical organization- top down driven companies in old industries.
8. Engineering students have migrated from civil in the 1960s to electrical in the 1990s. The new infrastructure is not bridges and pipes but web and communications. We are just at the beginning of this revolution.
9. Arthur C. Clark accurately predicted geo synchronomous orbiting satellites for communications. Little known was his prediction that long distance would be free by Jan. 1, 2000 (almost there on both counts).
10. Computers did not fulfill their promise of potential productivity increases until they became a means of communicating. Now the value of the web goes up as the square of the number of logged on users.
11. Perhaps it is true to say that the real estate industry has moved from physical space to cyber space- the Oklahoma gold rush of the mid 1800s has moved to cyberspace where Yahoo, AOL, Amazon.com, eBay and others occupy valuable cyberspace (sometimes referred to as mind share).
12. It won't be long before people will "goggle" into cyberspace to meet, transact business, conduct romances, be entertained, and so forth. For more on this, read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (which by the way over 35 of the top 50 IT executives have done). Faces in the metaverse give avatars their value.
13. What are the go-go areas for the next 100 years? Later on in these remarks, I will give you the twelve areas I believe will have significant growth (most to least).
14. What are the constraints to growth? There are many; the most significant of which is nimbyitis, government interference and intervention, viz: Government and Politics- bureaucracy growth/special interest growth/pseudo environmentalism/cults/democratic abuse/rule of the mob/anti human/human intelligence counts for nothing/return humans to savagery. Constraints on greenfield projects/constraints on new physical horizons/constraints on creativity. Search for freedom/ new frontiers needed- the human condition requires up and out movement/humans are tool using apes that like to change the environment around them requiring constant new frontiers or too-many-rats-in-a-cage syndrome results.
15. Scenario I: the next 100 years- as above; the next 500 years- humans throughout the solar system; the next 1000 years- humans reach for the stars.
16. Modern humans are only 30,000 years old. The environment will force more genetic change on humans- bigger people, bigger brains. So much time is spent on learning that life prolongation will make economic sense to make better use of the investment. People will recycle themselves- they will have mulitple careers. O J Firestone said: "never retire. But change your career a few times". He went from civil servant to economics professor to real estate developer to art historian. Men's and women's performances in all aspects of life will continue to converge. Women's athletics will come closer to men's performance standards. Women will surpass men in medicine, law and many other professions. Men will still dominate in business and other on-the-edge fields although this too will narrow.
17. Adaptive economies will put a premium on education, flexibility (mental agility) and creativity.
18. Creativity will be the most important determinant of value.
19. For example, Amazon.com is using a relational data base that is extremely powerful for them and for the customer. When I log on to the site to get a book, I also learn what other people in my field are buying who also have bought this book; this encourages me to a) buy more but at the same time b) I get a tremendous amount of research done for me for free and find material that otherwise I might not.
20. Economies will grow based on city states- a return to Athens and Sparta of the past.
21. City states can be based on a pluralistic, democratic system or can just as easily be based on an ethnic, autocratic regime.
a. Success is in large part due to perseverance and determination- the Jerry Jacobs story.
b. Don't get too high or too low- coping with disappointment. Keep things in perspective. Everyone makes mistakes, even you! Eg., the demand curve for CFL football in Ottawa was vertical at 3,500 fans and zero everywhere else.
c. Don't take no for an answer- again the Jerry Jacobs story: "You'll never, ever get a franchise for Ottawa." Tell the story of the basement of the Breakers Hotel. The last two guys seen by the BOG- Firestone and Espo. Norm Green: "Get that smucky look off your face, kid and get out there and hustle." Lydia Leeder: " It's ;like canada/Russia in 1972, everyone is counting on you." Basement of Breakers- "We'll be back." Marcel: "Felicitations, mon ami…"
d. When something isn't working, stop doing it- example of Rentalex.
e. Singleness of Purpose and Focus, Focus, Focus- example of Operation Barbarrossa by Adolf Hitler. Sens core competence is a) put quality team on the ice, b) manage client relations (season ticket holders and corporate accounts- the Bill Wirtz story: "We sell 15,000 season tickets every year and if we don't then I tell 'em to hit the phones until we do".) The Sens contract out TV, radio, parking lot, concessions, catering, cleaning, security, …
f. Sales, Sales, Sales- these are the three most important things in business. If revenues are buoyant, your business will survive.If you have sales, you will have financing; not the other way around. The story of Mitel. Mike and Terry's lawn mowers. Seven shareholders at $10,000 each. Kent Plumley takes his brother out for his original $10k; he makes $54m. Mitel went from zero to $400m in 10 years.
g. Carpe Diem- look at 100 deals before you do one. But at the same time, when the right one comes along, strike quickly. Much of the advice I am giving is contradictory. Dealing with contradictions is part of life. Life is irrational. People are irrational. Markets are irrational. SOME OF THE TIME. Rules in a knife fight? There are no rules… Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
h. Check, Check, Check- there are no fire and forget missiles in business. Glen St John and the Hyperion.
i. Fitness for life- not like the head of Oracle who at 55 was bench pressing 400 plus lbs. And popped his carotid artery.
j. Don't Drink and Think- Barry Hobin conference at the Country Club.
k. Consistency of effort- 98% effort and 2% glory. Example- Sens new hires with stars in their eyes.
l. Financing- the startup of Newbridge. Terry Matthews. All five Canadian Banks refused $7m in debt other than the TD which offerred $7m based on a cash collateral account. "Your $7m plus my $14m makes $14m". Boot strap financing- cash from family, future clients, sponsors, suppliers. Pre-sales: $22m in cash collected from 10,500 season tickets in ten days in December 1990, two years before the start of play. Transactions should be accretive. People who have money don't actually have money- they have access to money. People who have money are coupon clippers who contribute very little to economic activity. People who have access to money are people using OPM to build. Making a profit is not so that you can go to Rio for Carnivaal, it is so that you can do more and more interesting things. Example- accretive transaction: Wayne Huizinga's acqisition of the Florida Panthers. ($50m) for the franchise. ($20m) in losses. $25m in bank debt. $125m for 49% interest sold to the public. An arena built for free (value $200m).
m. Vision- a mental map of how the world works is very useful. From it comes the ability to use judgement and deduce what will probably work and what won't. Example- BMF deduces collapse in r.e. values in 1987 laying the foundation for a move into entertainment. Today, vision means knowing the value of Sens webcasting rights before anyone else does.
n. Speed- Hong Kong (120mph), New York (70mph), Toronto (20 mph), Ottawa (3mph). Example- the adoption by Terrace of the Macintosh computer in 1983. Campeau took 12 weeks to do a lease. We could do a lease with all attachements and floor plans in an hour. What a competitive advantage. Today the web is allowing the USA TO EAT A HOLE IN THE WORLD ECONOMY. It doesn' matter that people in the third world get paid $1 per day or that Canadians earn 67 cent dollars. Early adopters of the web are going to kill all their competition. Example- a sign company (billboards) that allows the advertiser to choose from the inventory on the web. To transmit the order via the web. For the host site to be updated AUTOMATICALLY changing the inventory. For the artwork to be received via e-mail, For the distribution centre to receive it via email. For digital images to be cut on a Gerber edge machine. For the images to be stuck on by a crew (soon to be replaced by all electronic boards that can be seen in daylight and at night). A national campaign that used to take six months now takes three weeks and soon will take a day or two. Speed graph- 1. Marathon, a runner takes a message 26 miles 400 yards; 2. Ships, 3. Horses, 4. Post Office and Couriers, 5. Bikes, 6. Railroad, 7. Telegraph, 8. Auto, 9. Trucks, 10. Telephone (copper wires), 11. Telex, 12. Telecopier (fax), 13. Satellite links, 14. Underwater cables, 15. Computers, 16. PCs, 17. Fibre optics, 18. Internet and www, 19. Quantum computers, 20. Quantum telecommunications, 21. Matter compliers. Speed is increasing at a fantastic rate. Computers did not live up to their potential until they became communications tools. In the above example, data communications (the billboard schedule, for example) is more important that voice communication…
o. Being the Lowest Cost Producer- Don Holtby in 1992 listening to the first ever Sens game spent $270 US for a dedicated land line to listen to the CFRA broadcast. Today, Don can listen use Real Audio- his cost for the three hour broadcast is approximately half a cent per minute or 90 cents for three hours. This is a cost reduction factor of 300x. If you allow your competition to do this to you, you will become extinct.
p. Don't be Afraid of Competition- Canderel example of 1984.
q. If You Have a Good Idea You Can Be Sure That Someone Else is Having that Same Idea- there are 25 million Americans in their basements right now thinking about THE NEXT BIG THING. Example- Fred's Life Clock (now voted the worst web site on the globe) was put out after he thought of it. Too bad. It was probably a lousy business anyway. IDEAS ARE CHEAP, IT'S EXECUTION THAT COUNTS. My Dean of Engineering at McGill said that everything that could be invented had been by the 1920s (cars, telegraph, RR, steam ships, airplanes, radio, electricity). How untrue then, how untrue now. (They missed the web, television, radar, rockets, computers, gene therapy, etc., etc.)
r. Business is More Art than Science- example the Sens market study that showed we could sell 100,000 season tickets at any price.
s. Reputation and Integrity- Kent Plumley's comment.
t. Learn By Doing- suck it and see. When you say something out loud that you have been thinking forever to an audience, you immediately see how dumb it is. We all have had that experience. Dumb ideas need airing so that you can see how dumb. No amount of thinking can replace actual market place experience.
u. The Market is Always Right Even When it is Wrong- example Grocery Express, an idea before its time. (Example- HomeGrocer.com). Ottawa Business News (aka OBJ) was started by me because we got tired of paying exorbitant rates for advertising from the monopoly provider and to give a growing Ottawa business community a voice and a place to have a conversation with itself- very, very successful paper but certainly serendipitous. A large measure of the success of the OBJ is its longevity. Perhaps GExpress would have found that too.
v. Set Goals- 22 points in 1992/93 (we got 24).
w. Work on Multiple Channels- you have to be able to do more than one thing at a time.
x. Don't Overplan- be ready to change when opportunity presents itself. Opportunity is all around us. We just don't see it. It is like when you first learn a new word as an adult. You are 22 but you have never heard the word before. Then in the next few weeks, you hear that word everywhere… It was always there, you just never saw it. Opportunity is like that. Once you know what you want, you will find it… It is like a theatre production (Example- Shakespear in Love)- how the chaos becomes a polished production is a … mystery.
The future holds great promise; more promise than ever before. The areas where all boats are rising are:
a. Communications and telecommunications- The Web becomes independently intelligent, goggling in, avatars (personal reps in cyber space, aka: the Metaverse). Quantum Communications.
b. Computers- Quantum Computers, Human/Cyber combinations, human/cyber interface, thinking machines combining software, hardware and wetware, cyber cloning (capture of humans in cyber space- their essence à la Vulcan mind meld and final transfer of all that is Spock to Dr. McKoy before Spock's death).
c. Entertainment, Conventions and Tourism- live entertainment will be one of the growth industries. Ballet on TV is horrible. Mike Eisner is not worried about the web putting his (Disney) theme parks out of business. The tribal experience is still important.
d. Medical Sciences- Gene Therapy and Life Prolongation, disease prevention and cure. (Heart failure! Take one of these and you will feel better in the am). Gerontology. Cloning. Reintroduction of extinct species. Health services and spas. Nutrition. Alternative medicine. Fitness.
e. Nano Technology- nano machines (medicine, security, environmental cleanup, textiles, materials science, home construction (the "seed")), eutatic environments (lighter than air nano machines/buildings/airships- see Neal Stephensons' The Diamond Age). The source/feed/nanomanufacturing/matter compiler (MC)/distributed nanomanufacturing- reduction of transportation requirements (ports, roads, canals, rail, air).
f. Environmental Science- Earth as garden. Global population decreases- economic shifts from population migration south to north to the need for growth/if you are not growing you are dying. City intensification (mass urbanization of earth's population and city densification), heavy industry in space, space elevator, robot controlled farming in shipping containers and re-use of farmland for wilderness, reduction in transportation requirements as MCs become common place. Heavy industry in space. Power from space. 10,000 year doomsday clock, library and measurements.
g. Finance, Banking and Accounting
h. Education and Training- revamping of high school, age of majority at 16, Romans became adults at 15- we are wasting our kids most valuable and creative time. (Einstein wrote relativity at 19).
i. Energy and Power Technology- hydrogen economy, fuel cells, battery technology, super conducting technology, energy from space.
j. Systemic exploitation of the solar system- space elevator transportation system (Arthur C. Clark again ("free" trips to space by using power on the trip up and generating power on the way down!)) and orbit-to-earth electric power, discovery of life on other planets, solar system mapping including asteroid mapping and policing (comet and asteroid earth shield), space debris cleanup, heavy industry in space. Huge increase in human welfare from exploitation of solar system. Unimaginable wealth. Nevertheless, poverty continues.
k. Transportation- half lane cars/vehicles/mopeds/ personalized mass transit.
l. Services- design services (industrial, graphics, multi media, art, videography, architectural).
m. Agriculture- designer foods, industrial production.
22. Scenario II is quite different- environmental degradation, species extinction's in the 10,000s, civil wars, ethnic cleansing, mass unemployment, racism, mass starvation and disease, genetic mutation, human extinction, imperialism, subsistence economies, barbarism, tribalism, viruses triumphant.
23. How to avoid Scenario II? More education. Democracy works best where people are well educated. More options for lifestyle choice. Economic growth is all about creating new options. Economic growth derived initially from the first village (the Village of Ugh and Nninn made up from the families of Ugh and Nninn; specialists in antelopes and flint knives, respectively). But we also need more lifestyle choices which creates more economic choices too.
24. Should victimless crime be a crime. Over 2 million young people and not so young people have been arrested for marijuana in Canada. Over 48% of male high school students and 42% of female high schoolers admitted to using marijuana at least three times in the last year. Does it make sense to make criminals out of nearly half our students? The Police Chiefs of Canada have recently come out in favour of the decrminalization of marijuana. What our laws seem to do is waste a huge amount of police resources, make Columbian mobsters wealthy, make young people criminals, deprive terminally ill persons of relief, foreclose options for farmers looking to replace tobacco crops with something else, etc.
25. People need people. All economic progress has come from villages, then towns, then cities. It is the proximity of one person to another, like Ugh and Nninn, that creates the opportunity for synergistic and serendipitous invention. The web will add to this global village immensely especially when people can goggle in. Then faces become even more important for this type of one plus one makes three. Office buildings are really places for the tribe to come together. Telecommuting can take us only so far; people need people. People must be able to come together in a secure environment to trade, to exchange ideas, to share skills. Governments need to understand that this is their primary mission to foster an urban environment where this type of exchange can occur. Education, police, medical care, nutrition and the environment are important. Also, government have a responsibility to foster top notch infrastructure (power, telecommunications, roads, …). That doesn't mean that governments have to actually do any of this! It can be contracted out, or much of it can in a competitive world. But it has to be top notch. This is the framework that lets urbanites shoulder the burden of raising the bar higher.
26. More technology not less is the key to protecting the environment, raising living standards, reducing population growth. Humans without technology will have short and brutish lives.
27. Anti human environmentalism and nimbyitis is a philosophy that places no value on human intelligence which for all we know is unique in the universe. Certainly it is unique in the near earth universe! Radio waves have been emanating from the earth for a long time so that if there is any intelligence within 40 or 50 light years of earth they sure aren't sending any signals back.
28. More personal freedom, more education, more technology, what else is needed? The high frontier is needed to give an outlet to our most aggressive impulses and people. Also we need better choices and more freedom to choose our personal living situations- we need to tolerate granny flats (1011 and a half Seabright Avenue), rooming houses, basement flats to provide for more co-operative housing and multi generations living together. Not only does this make more financial sense by allowing people to live together to help each other financially but it makes for better use of public infrastructure (roads and mass transit). It is also healthier (mentally) for people to live in less isolation one from the other. We must defeat the forces of nimbyites which prevent this. In fact, nimbyitis leads to sterile suburban developments devoid of jobs, stores, employment, life and interest; leads to uniform single family product, income segregation (and maybe racial segregation too), gated communities, private governments and geographic segregation of haves from have-nots. Over 85% of new homes in the USA are being built in gated communities. This is a blight. It will surely lead to civil unrest. The American empire will fall not from attack from the outside from the rot on the inside. Gated communities mean that there is no place for the poor; no place for the children of the poor to learn from others the habits of not being poor (punctuality, health, education, perserverence). Education standards in public schools in the USA is a scandal.
29. What is the role of government? Government's most fundamental mission is to socialize risk. The provision of medicare is one of those types of things. Putting seed capital together for the Hibernia oil fields is another. (Newfoundland has gone from the provincial economy with the lowest growth in Canada to the highest.) Activist governments have always taken risks- connecting by rail the Pacific to central Canada in the 19th century; the Trans Canada pipeline in the 20th century, investing in hardened communications systems by DARPA leading to the Web at the end of the 20th century. Where governments get confused is when they a) forget their primary mission, b) become fearful of doing new things, c) lead by polls and d) supplant their primary mission with a mission to regulate, intervene, nationalize, tax, punish. Governments everywhere have become more timid in carrying out their primary mission (if indeed they ever knew what it was) and more aggressive about punishment, taxation, regulation, etc. It seems that governments everywhere believe that the people are there to serve them rather than the other way around. (Why governments shouldn't do anything- the example of the City of Ottawa proposing to build 16 boxes in the Civic Centre for $12m while we built 44 of them for $2.9m, a difference of a factor of 11. Governments can set policy, tax, transfer wealth, regulate, police but they shouldn't actually do anything; the doing part must be left to the private sector.)
30. Ultimately the Village of Ugh and Nninn can only be successful if the government of Ugh and Nninn is activist in the primary mission and for the rest- Get The Hell Out of the Way.
31. Will it be the baby boomers or Gen X and Y that lead us into a better tomorrow? I would not put my money on the baby boomers. After all, what have they accomplished? Listen to a group of boomers and you are likely to hear complaints- they are depressed! Their BMWs are four years old! The generation before mine were steel spined- they faced down WW I, the great depression, Nazism and WW II, the Korean war, the cold war and they had time to put a man on the moon.
32. In my life, I was born in 1951, the war was just six years in the past. The Korean war was soon to get underway and the cold war had begun. In 1961 during the Cuba missile crisis, I was waiting with 300 other schoolboys in the basement of Ashbury College for a nuclear exchange to begin- the sirens were going off. Surely, we would all have been killed- we were at ground zero just a few hundred metres from government house, external affairs, 24 Sussex, … Also in 1961, the Berlin Wall was built.
33. In the 1960s and 1970s we had the Vietnam War. I was in Australia at age 20- subject to the draft until PM Gough Whitlam withdrew Australian forces from Vietnam.
34. In 1972, the Aussies still had not forgiven the Japanese.
35. But this incredible era of trauma did not end with the Millennium. It ended on November 9th, 1989. And what happened on that date? The Berlin Wall came down. Nazism lasted 12 years, the Berlin Wall 28 and Marxism Leninism lasted 74.
36. We now have a marvellous time to heal the earth, a world largely at peace, a world of greta opportunity, a world of civilization and laws. Gen X and Y- you're up to it!
Ideas for the 21st Century
1. space elevator and orbit-to-earth electric power
2. Nano machines climb to orbit using solar power- place large masses in space using less energy
3. AI systems
4. Self replicating machines
5. Hollowed out asteroids/starships
6. Pulsed Fusion Engine
7. Teraforming of Mars
8. Mini fuel cells for PCs and other small apps
9. systemic exploitation of the solar system
10. discovery of life on other planets
11. solar system mapping including asteroid mapping and policing (comet and asteroid earth shield)
12. space debris cleanup
13. quantum computers
14. quantum telecommunications
15. thinking machines combining software, hardware and wetware
16. cyber/human direct interface
17. human/cyber combinations
18. gene therapy and life prolongation
19. the web becomes an independent intelligence
20. nanomachines (medicine, security, environmental cleanup, textiles, home construction (the "seed"), materials science)
21. eutatic environment (lighter than air travel, lighter than air buildings)
22. the source/feed/nanomanufacturing/matter compiler (distributed nanomanufacturing)- reduction of transportation requirements (ports, roads, canals, rail, air)
23. half lane cars/vehicles/mopeds/ personalized mass transit
24. battery technology/fuel cell/nano fuel cell
25. energy and power technology (even wind turbines have environmental impacts- visual, noise, bird deaths)
26. avatars (personal representation in cyber space)
27. cyber cloning (cyber capture of human beings)
28. unified theory of everything gene therapy (disease prevention, cure and life prolongation)
29. hydrogen economy
30. earth as garden (city intensification (mass urbanization of earth's population and city densification), heavy industry in space, space elevator, robot controlled farming in shipping containers and re-use of farmland for wilderness, reduction in transportation requirements as MCs become common place)
31. reintroduction of extinct species
32. end of high school and date of maturity becomes 16
33. 10,000 year doomsday clock, library and measurements
34. bureaucracy growth/special interest growth/pseudo environmentalism/cults/democratic abuse/rule of the mob/anti human/human intelligence counts for nothing/return humans to savagery
35. global population decreases/economic shifts from population migration south to north/the need for growth/if you are not growing you are dying
36. constraints on greenfield projects/constraints on new physical horizons/constraints on creativity
37. search for freedom/ new frontiers needed- the human condition requires up and out movement/humans are toll using apes that like to change the environment around them requiring constant new frontiers or rats in a cage syndrome results
Ottawa Vision 2000 (updated 1998, original 1989)
Infrastructure
1. OC Transpo privatization
2. Transitway Stations Retail Additions
3. Big Time People Mover (Light Rail: east-west, north-south with connections to Hull/ Downtown People mover eg., cableliner)
4. expanded Ottawa Congress Centre
5. broadband access everywhere
6. one local telephone calling zone in NCR
7. linkages
8. east and west end bridges
9. 416 completion
10. Highway 17 four lanes to Arnprior and Renfrew
11. Airport privatization and redevelopment
12. US customs pre-clearance
13. Ntsx.com- CDNX and NASDAQ local offices
14. Canada/Ottawa Demography Signs
15. Roads as Economic Multiplier
16. Hotel connected to Ottawa International Airport
17. Link of 417 and MacDonald-Cartier bridge
18. Spur road linking 416 and the Airport linking back out to the 417 (limited access highway)
19. Use Diefenbunker for secure data haven
Housing, Social Policy and the Arts
1. Ottawa Youth Brigade
2. Order of Ottawa
3. Ottawa Youth Jobs Hotline and Web Site
4. Mayor's Honour Role
5. 11:00 pm curfew for unaccompanied minors
6. $3,500 cash rebate on DCs to all first time homebuyers
7. permitting granny flats and in-home apartments and exempting them from DCs
8. disabled and seniors access to all civic and private buildings
9. Museum of Municipal History and City Archives (War Museum, Sussex Drive)
10. Mural Arts Program
11. Seed capital funding for new festivals
12. $500 loan program for low income seniors for property taxes on s.f. homes
13. tax deferral of property tax increases program for low income seniors in s.f. homes
14. Internet double loaded home mail box
15. Allow duplexes, triplexes, rooming houses, B & B, flats, basement apartments, granny flats, etc. in all zones
16. elimination of DCs
17. front ending of infrastructure by municipalities to promote growth and provide positive fiscal impact on muni budgets
18. Duplex/triplex/granny flat (exemption from DCs and performance zoning)
19. Legalization of in home apartments
20. Densification- downtown density bonus for residential added to CO projects and CC projects
21. Affordable housing
22. Aging population
23. City centre density bonus or building height bonus for residential uses or residential uses added to commercial buildings
24. Legalize work at home
25. Reinvigorate core- conversion of government and other buildings to residential use and mixed use
26. Duplex demonstration program
Industry
1. MCF sites 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 sq. ft. of pre-approved space
2. CHIP plant
3. Auction House (Ritchie Bros.)
4. Foundation for Entrepreneurs
5. Committee of 100 to welcome new businesses from out of the City and new ones starting in the City
6. Commercial Property Rights Protection Association (Friends of the Future)
Government and Environment
1. National Institute of Sports
2. Ottawa Ombudsman
3. Taxpayer Bill of Rights
4. Super Majority of Council before investing in mega projects
5. Retirement of Ottawa debt
6. Tax freeze
7. Essential services at existing or higher levels
8. Office of Intergovernmental relations
9. Evening Council Meetings
10. Federal District (Holt Commission 1915)
11. development of Lebreton Flats
12. single tier municipal government
13. name change (Ottawa-Carleton to Metro Ottawa)
14. tree'd city/urban forest (1,009,000 trees)
15. establish conservation land trust (deeded or conservation easement with tax credit)
16. City-State Council: Arnprior, Renfrew, Ottawa, Prescott, Brockville, Nepean, Kanata, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hull, Aylmer, Gatineau, Rockland, Pembroke, Almonte, Perth, Cornwall, Smith Falls, Maniwali, Petawawa, Kingston, etc.
17. Open Ottawa area hospitals to US patients to earn US dollars and improve patient care for Canadians.
18. Stock option tax reduction
19. Zero emissions/100% recycling
20. Conservation Land Trust
21. Conservation Design for Sub-Divisions
22. Connected Open Space and Migratory Pathways
23. Piped services for rural lots/village compactness/package treatment/siphon systems/communal well and septic
24. Roof top gardens
Tourism and Entertainment:
1. Water park
2. Friendship Windmill
3. Butterfly House
4. Biodome Restaurant
5. Hanging Gardens
6. Calgary Tower and Torch
7. tethered gas balloon
8. media tower
9. grouse grind
10. water taxi and bingo
11. paddle wheel casino
12. gondolas on the canal
13. boardwalk
14. botanical garden
15. Lantern Festival on Dows Lake
16. world's tallest climbing rock
17. aquarium*
18. zoo
19. sports park
20. chinese junk
21. TV Channel
22. TV/Film studio
23. Specialty Channel
24. Internet Channel
25. Palladium (Corel Centre)
26. NHL Hockey team
27. Princess of Wales Theatre
28. Mule Train
29. National Trail System
30. Charity Casino
31. Casino
32. ZineMax Outdoor theatre and stage
33. Amphitheatre
34. sculpture garden
35. Electric Car Rentals (Celebration, FLA)
36. Santa's Village
37. Winter Slide Park (Jacques Cartier Park type)
38. Mid Summers Night's Dream (Summer solicstice Ball and Festival of lights)
39. Gilbert and Sullivan Summer Festival and Melody Tent
40. sci-fi film festival
41. Winter Wonderland of Lights and Tree Decorating Park
42. Eastern Ontario Dark Sky Park and Observatory
43. Millcroft Inn and Spa
44. Outdoor Gym/Muscle Beach
45. Beach Pavilions
46. Zeplin Tours
47. Very Large Sculpture (aka L'Arc d'Triomphe)
48. Canadian Sports Hall of Fame
49. Observatory
50. Dog Park
51. Very Large Farmers' Market
52. Outdoor restaurant
53. 10,000 year clock/temperature, CO2 record/library
54. Millennium Wheel
55. Ottawa River Jet Spray/Fountain and Light Show
56. Restaurant in a garden
57. Downtown Greenhouse Veggi sales
58. "Red Light" District- rooming houses, affordable housing, exotic dance clubs, casino, adult video and adult merchandise stores, night clubs, restaurants, dinner theatre, comedy clubs, loft apartments, lingerie stores
Public Safety
1. Community policing (more police on the beat)
2. Zero tolerance for misdemeanors (broken windows syndrome)
3. 'John Sweeps'
4. 'Cops in the Classroom' program
5. Curbside Parking- Customers' Bill of Rights and Parking Officers' Bill of Rights
6. Prisoner Town
Education
1. High School for technological arts (multi media development, internet protocol, web site design and development, fibre optics, software arts)- High Tech High School
2. Market Ottawa Universities and Colleges to US students (earn more funds for research and reverse brain drain)
3. Internet Institute
4. College for Entrepreneurship
5. Virtual University
Technology Training Centre
Copyright. Dr. Bruce M. Firestone, Adjunct Research Professor, Carleton University, School of Architecture, Ottawa, Canada, 2001.
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