It was a packed meeting of presentations and updates for smaller than ordinary Committee-of-the-Whole meeting. You can revisit the Guelph Politico preview of the meeting here, and you can follow the complete live blog here. Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Post-view: What Happened at the March 5 Meeting?”
Delegates will fight again to persuade council to not build a five-storey development at 75 Dublin Street again. 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 tonight’s council meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for February 27, 2018”
Remember in 2016 when a five-storey building was proposed at 75 Dublin Street, and the application was kind of rushed through to take advantage of a federal grant, and there was an outcry because the building was flush against Central Public School, and then staff said they could only build a four-storey building there, and then nothing happened? Well, back to square one (and we don’t mean the mall in Mississauga.) Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 27 Meeting?”
The regular council meeting for February has environmental concerns front and centre, as city council considers joining a club of global lenvironmental leaders, and considers feedback to the Greenbelt expansion. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 26 Meeting?”
Nerds! It’s time. The business case for the new main branch of the Guelph Public Library, and the next phase of Baker Street redevelopment will be voted on tonight. 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 tonight’s council meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for February 13, 2018”
This month’s planning meeting will feature development priorities, the state of the city’s brownfields, and the redevelopment of the Uniroyal plant. You can click here for the agenda from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. For the complete blow-by-blow of tonight’s council meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for February 12, 2018”
Changes to development charges are coming, but what will they look like? What can council do? What can’t it do? The mayor and councillors will get together in a few weeks in order to learn all about it. Here’s the preview… Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 21 Meeting?”
It might be February, but this is the first planning meeting of the year as council will be asked to consider reports about he coming year of housing construction, the next several years of brownfield remediation, and the immediate future of one brownfield in particular. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 12 Meeting?”
The next phase of developing a new main branch of the Guelph Public Library will begin the day before Valentine’s Day, when council will be asked to show so love to the business case presented by the Library’s Board of Directors. That, and the next phase of the over all redevelopment of Baker Street will be discussed at this special meeting of city council. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 13 Meeting?”
The Guelph-Wellington 20,000 Homes Annual Report, and the last chance to debate items from this month’s committee meeting are on the agenda for tonight’s gathering of city council. You can click here for the agenda from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. For the complete blow-by-blow of tonight’s council meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for January 29, 2018”
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