Two months later, we’re talking again about the Strategic Plan. 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: Workshop City Council Meeting for April 25, 2023”
Money matters are at the forefront of the next Committee of the Whole meeting. After a couple of months with stacked agendas, this coming committee meeting will be almost entirely one note was council gets their pencils and calculators out to finish off the 2022 budget with an examination of the year end report. Also, feel like taking an electric scooter ride? One councillor wants to make that easier. Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the May 2 Meeting?”
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”
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?”
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?”
April’s Committee of the Whole meeting was short on controversy, but loaded with insightful information about a couple important City departments. This week’s those topics of conversation were built around the annual water quality report, the Stormwater Master Plan, and the transit fare review for Guelph Transit. There were a lot of facts and figures coming at us this week, so let’s recap them the best we can! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Water Talk and Transit Changes”
This month’s planning meeting, again delayed a week because of a special occasion, will be a pretty big one. It’s not because of the heritage designation or the request for a sign bylaw variance, but because after four years of work the Comprehensive Zoning Bylaw is finally ready for approval. It’s been nearly 30 years since this piece of regulation has been formally updated, and this month, we have arrived at the end. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 18 Meeting?”
April is the cruellest month, but will it be a cruel committee meeting? 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: Committee of the Whole Meeting for April 4, 2023”
This week at council marked this last two meetings of the month. The first one was the surprisingly straightforward regular council meeting that was all about affirming the decisions from Committee of the Whole plus some GMHI business. The other meeting was more interesting, the opening of feedback from council about the new Downtown Parking Master Plan. Let’s cover it all in this week’s recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Parking Master Plan and Short-Term Rental Licences Approved”
Time to talk again about parking downtown. 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 March 29, 2023”
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