Tag: City Council

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?” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #403 – 2023: The Lousy Clip Show

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On this holiday week, you’re probably listening to a lot of reruns and year-end recaps on your podcast feed, and that’s why Guelph Politico is demonstrating its incredible efficiency by combining both things into one podcast. This week, we will review the 2023 soundbites that made the news in Guelph; the announcements, the arguments and the silliness that helped define the last 365 days in the Royal City. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #403 – 2023: The Lousy Clip Show” →

This Week at Council: The Last Meeting… of 2023!

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Perhaps a bit anticlimactically, the year at council came to end this week with two back-to-back meetings that laid out the progress on the City’s shift to a new customer service strategy, and the approval of several hundred new housing units. Also, Mayor Cam Guthrie gave out some medals, including one for a Guelph recipient of the Order of Ontario who’s pictured above. So how did 2023 end at council? Let’s recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: The Last Meeting… of 2023!” →

LIVE BLOG: City Council Meetings for December 12, 2023

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It’s the last two council meetings of 2023! You can click here and 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 Meetings for December 12, 2023” →

This Week at Council: Official Plan Drama as Council’s Lobbied Hard

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This week at Guelph City Council, there was a little meeting and a big meting. The little meeting was the Committee of the Whole, which was over and done in about 20 minutes. As for the big meeting? Well that is – what’s the word? – complicated. The fallout from the Ontario government’s flip-flop on the Official Plan proved more trickier than you might have thought for a motion that was simply meant to reverse previous changes, but that’s what this recap is for… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Official Plan Drama as Council’s Lobbied Hard” →

LIVE BLOG: City Council Meetings for December 5, 2023

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It’s back-t0-back meetings to kick off December! You can click here and 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 Meetings for December 5, 2023” →

This Week at Council: Royal City Mission Saved (For Now) and The Budget

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This week council took a couple of tough meetings. On Tuesday, there was a question about homelessness downtown, but the controversial motion proposed by Mayor Cam Guthrie had been pulled. Still, there’s was a matter of funding for Royal City Mission and their daytime shelter services, council had to decided how and if they were going to fund that further. And on Wednesday, it was the big one: The passage of the 2024-2027 multiyear budget! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Royal City Mission Saved (For Now) and The Budget” →

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” →