Category: Council Preview

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Meeting on February 21?

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Originally, the content of this meeting was supposed to be tackled in September, which would have made it ideally timed about a little more than a week before the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Slightly less well-timed, but no less important, council will finally get together to consider matters of Indigenous reconciliation and their place in it with a very insightful and informative exercise. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Meeting on February 21?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the First February 14 Meeting?

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Just a day after a two-day meeting between representatives from Guelph and Wellington County, and about two weeks after it was first proposed in closed session at city council, staff have generated what’s sure to be the most controversial policy of the year. The growing visibility of encampments, especially in downtown Guelph, prompted the creation of a new bylaw, and it will be debated at this meeting! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the First February 14 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Second February 14 Meeting?

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Here’s something interesting! In what looks to be a very busy week and month for city council, it’s a chance for them to sit as a tribunal to hear a complaint, in this case a complaint concerning a development charge. Council will hear the complaint, hear the response, and then hear the counter-response from both sides before rendering a decision. It’s all the fun of a civil trial live from the council chambers!! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Second February 14 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 13 Meeting?

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Planning matters return on schedule for the second Tuesday of February, and there’s going to be some unusual business for this planning meeting just to keep things interesting. Council will be asked to make some decisions regarding some recent applications, they will be asked to made a decision about a new Official Plan Amendment, and then they will make a decision to keep to a previous decision. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 13 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Meeting on February 7?

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Garbage. How often do you think about it? Well, at this meeting of council, the topic is unavoidable because not only is this special meeting and workshop of city council all about solid waste collection, it actually takes place in the building where all the solid waste is collected. There are some real changes coming to your local blue box in the next couple of years, and this meeting will help give you a heads up! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Meeting on February 7?” →

Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 6, 2024 Meeting?

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Hope everyone enjoyed the extra time off in January, because there’s a lot of serious business to take care of this February starting almost immediately with Committee of the Whole. For this first CoW of 2024, there’s some left over budget business to talk about, plus some construction business ahead for the downtown core. Also, there’s some staff recognitions, governance changes, and the return of downtown parking concerns. Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 6, 2024 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 16 Meeting?

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The first Guelph City Council meeting of 2024 is a planning meeting, and it will be a largely procedural affair. If you’re wondering about what the new Development Charges are going to look like in the spring, or if you’re wondering about the fate of a specific project on Bristol Street, or if you’ve just been hankering for some council action after a very long winter’s break, check out what’s on this agenda!. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 16 Meeting?” →

Planning Staff Looking to Reverse Course on Some Official Plan Changes

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The adventure continues… Earlier this year, Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing returned to the City of Guelph the latest version of their Official Plan with 18 modifications. There was some disagreement about that. Since then, the new Minister announced that he was going to rescind those changes made by his predecessor, but what does that mean for Guelph? There’s a meeting for that! Continue reading “Planning Staff Looking to Reverse Course on Some Official Plan Changes” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the December 12 Meetings?

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Your holiday gift? These are the last two city council meetings of 2023! This business is not unimportant and begins with a bit of unusual scheduling, the regular meeting of city council. After that, council will hold the monthly planning meeting, which will feature two decision reports and a new application. After that, we’ll get the biggest gift all: Three weeks off before the next city council meeting! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the December 12 Meetings?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the November 29 Meeting?

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After a solid month of hard work and preparation, the moment for hard decisions has arrived. At this special meeting of council, the horseshoe will walk though the minefields of affordability and need in order to reach a decision on the 2024-2027 multiyear budget that’s unlikely going to please anyone. Let’s lay it all out on the table with this preview of what may not actually be the final budget meeting (if a certain someone uses a “V” word). Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the November 29 Meeting?” →