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>> Ctv news with carlyle fiset. >> Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin tonight at city hall, where local leaders are acknowledging london's homeless plan may have been overly ambitious. Darryl newcomb has more on the evolving expectations. >> We need leadership to what seems to be a sputtering vision for the homeless. Meanwhile, we ourselves have turned the page on how to use and are pursuing these other uses. The owner of 7.43 wellington road pulled the planning committee. His proposal to open a service hub for homeless londoners on the site was derailed by delays rolling out the application process. I just want to give you a bit of reality. The london development institute, a lobbying organization for local developers, then admitted that there's a lack of interest by most property owners to host a hub division was. >> Up to 15 knots. That's not ever going to happen. I think we're in realistic terms. We're hoping that the city can get to a lot to get to 5. >> The whole of community response to homelessness set a goal of eventually opening 600 highly supportive housing units and up to 15 low barrier service hubs where people can stabilize today, just 2 hubs and about 100 housing units of open. We're finding it hard to find suitable >> We can see that today. And quite frankly, I think we're finding it hard to find suitable operators, operators with the expertise. Several committee members expressed concern that the emergency care establishment zoning required for a hub location may not actually be appropriate given how hubs are probably going to operate. Initially, the official zoning description of an emergency care establishment specifies that people are just a they're generally less than 6 weeks. But for now and in the near future, people entering a hub may have to stay there until highly supportive housing units become available. There's only so much through put the you can have from a hub. >> If you don't have housing units available for people to move into. The deputy mayor believes the city might have to develop a special zoning descriptions specifically for hubs. What we're really trying to do is kind of lb a square peg into a round hole with some zoning around emergency care facilities. In the meantime, expectations are being revised for the homelessness strategy. We were never going to have 15 hubs. 15 hubs was the cadillac grandiose plan. Daryl newcombe, ctv news. London city council is considering a 6:00pm curfew for gas powered lawn equipment. >> Within the >> So by law, there is no differentiation on the power source. >> The current by-law only permits motorized lawn equipment used between 7:00am and 10:00pm. The proposed change would keep those hours for electric equipment, but reduce hours for gas powered mowers. Trimmers in leaf blowers to 8:00am and 6:00pm the civic works committee backed a proposal to hold a public meeting about a possible change in july. >> The long-term goal is for people slowly phase out it at the end of the lifecycle of their lawn equipment replacing it was electric option or again, perhaps this is an extra nudge that somebody needed decide to naturalize their lawn. >> There's a new boss running things at london health sciences centre has sean irvine reports. He's been brought in from outside amid reported dysfunction in turnover within hospital leadership. >> Outside and inside of lhsc, there is relief and some anxiety is a new era begins. David musyj takes over thursday. He contends he is not walking in the door with a game plan already drawn up. So I'm not coming in with a pre. >> Written agenda with pre written instructions on a road map to. >> A deal with day-to-day issues. Musyj arrives in london after a long term at windsor regional hospital. He contends his strong leadership skills were sought directly by the board of directors of lhsc. And they reached out to my possibly interested in doing this >> To london health sciences centre and create some stability. I'm moving forward. >> Lhsc has gone through several years of turmoil in its executive leadership, its last permanent leader took a leave of absence shortly after a london free press story raised questions about executive travel spending. She had replaced another leader who left after travelling outside of canada during the pandemic. Musyj responds to lhsc is past with a comparison to other centres. The issues london health sciences centre. >> Some of the issues, the bigger issues be it health, human resources b, it even executive leadership. They're

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