Get ready to get some new zoning! You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. For the complete blow-by-blow of today’s council meeting, you can follow along on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for April 18, 2023”
Every month, Guelph Politico posts the latest inspection results from the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health Unit inspection of local restaurants, hotels, cafes, grocery stores and other businesses that handle food. We call it “Mangez!”, and this column highlights the latest inspections done by WDGPH, and the results they’ve posted. Continue reading “MANGEZ! Dine Safe Guide for April 1-15, 2023”
The City of Guelph, and it’s various partners and agencies, put out a lot of information on a weekly basis, and while it all ends up on the City’s website somewhere, wouldn’t it be easier to just scroll through it all on one easy-to-read article on Guelph Politico here…? Continue reading “CITY PAGES: Bike Repairs, Trees Sold Out, and a Walk-a-thon”
There are 145,000 stories in the Royal City, and this is some of them. Looking at a week’s worth of media releases from the Guelph Police Service, there’s a lot going on in our little city crime-wise speaking, so let’s run down some of the charges, issues, and requests for information from the Guelph Police Service over the last seven days. Continue reading “POLICE NOTES: Arson Arrest, Bomb Scare, and Accidental Surrender”
The regular council meeting for April, marks a return to regular order, at least in terms of council’s usual start time. Welcome back, night owls! In terms of content, council will revisit some of their Committee of the Whole decisions, plus they will look at making some new committee appointments and then potentially offer some local support to a province-wide call for an ally in Ontario municipal governance. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Regular Meeting on April 25?”
To end this April’s worth of council meetings, there’s this new orientation session that will focus on getting around. What’s currently going on with the movement of people around the city? What are we doing to make your roads safer for everyone regardless of how they’re moving around? What’s in the works from Guelph Transit? You can’t say that all questions will be answered, but many of them will be. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 26 Meeting?”
We begin a busy week at city council with an appropriately big project back on the front burner. After taking a break these last couple of months as the consultants worked, city council will revisit their work on the Strategic Plan, now in draft form. What will this council decide to make their major goals for the next four years, and can they all agree on going in the same direction? Let’s find out! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Workshop Meeting on April 25?”
It’s been a busy April for Transit stuff even before we get to Transit Advisory Committee meeting. Transit business has been discussed at city council, and the usual end of the school year schedule shifts are coming, but there are also some new permanent changes coming in May, and then there are some more changes being prepped for September. There’s a lot of TAC to cover, so let’s start covering it. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Transit Advisory Committee Meeting for April 20, 2023”
Like one of those old episodes of Night Court where they have to get through 100 cases before midnight, Guelph’s Committee of Adjustment had to parcel through a dozen different applications over the course of a meeting that took nearly three hours to complete. Some of the applications were more difficult to parse than others, but there was an eclectic mix of projects and requests, to let’s dig into the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Committee of Adjustment Dispatches 12 Applications in Marathon Meeting”
Conestoga College is making a $90 million bet on downtown Guelph, and in the process answering the great economic development conundrum for the next few years: What happens to the Co-operators’ building when they move to their new south end headquarters. Business and government dignitaries were drawn to City Hall today to hear the news, the culmination of years of planning and advocacy. Continue reading “Conestoga Coming to Downtown by 2025 After Buying Co-operators Building”
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