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This Week at Council: One and Done For January

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It’s a slow start for 2024, at least if your jam is the business of Guelph City Council. At the one and only meeting for January, your friends around the horseshoe handled some very particular business in closed session and then quickly dispatched three piece of business in the open session. There was some discussion about the new development charges bylaw, and whether growth pays for itself, so it may be a new year, but we’ve still got the same problems. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: One and Done For January” →

LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for Januray 16, 2024

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We’re back! You can click here for the amended agendas 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 Januray 16, 2024” →

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?” →

This Week at Council: Planning is Easy, Budget is Hard

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Two meetings at council this week; one was easy and the other was somewhat harder. The easy one was the planning meetings, some straightforward applications and designations, but the hard one had to do with the budget. The added workshop meeting about finding options to reduce the budget was predictably difficult, but there’s still a few more days until a final decision has to be made. For now, here’s the recap of this week’s meetings… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Planning is Easy, Budget is Hard” →

LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for November 21, 2023

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At this meeting, we’ve got planning matters! You can click here for the amended agendas 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 November 21, 2023” →

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

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In the midst of all this budget madness, we don’t want to forget about the usual business of city council like the monthly planning meeting. This November meeting will be pretty straightforward with a couple of new designations from the Heritage Guelph factory, plus a couple of new applications for council’s consideration. A nice planning break before diving back into budget business so let’s see what’s on the agenda. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the November 21 Meeting?” →