Tonight, it’s the epic midseason finale of city council. 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 “RECAP: City Council Meeting for July 23, 2024”
This month’s planning meeting had a lot stuff going on, but only a couple of items were explored in detail. Yes, more heritage matters were approved, but the real news was in two different development projects; the first was a new project being developed by Habitat for Humanity in the north end, and the other was a final decision on a big project in the south end. Let’s get into the recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: A Tale of Two Projects”
One more meeting before council takes the rest of the summer off, and in the best tradition of the last day before summer vacation, it looks like a pretty light agenda. Council will get one more chance to weigh in on the Committee of the Whole agenda, but only after a lengthy closed session with multiple topics of interest. So without further ado, let’s just get into the cliffhangers in this mid-season finale of city council. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the July 23 Meeting?”
Let the planning begin! 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 “RECAP: City Council Meeting for July 9, 2024”
Just a few more meetings to go before council and council watchers can enjoy summer vacation, but there’s still a lot of important stuff to wrap our heads around before that needed time off. At this month’s Committee of the Whole meeting on Wednesday there was new moves to protect heritage and make an impact on light pollution, but the big news was around whether we should take park land and use if for housing. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: No Walk in the Parks”
A little later than usual, but we’re starting the month with Committee of the Whole. 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 “RECAP: Committee of the Whole Meeting for July 3, 2024”
The end of June brings the regular meeting of council, but more specifically it means an update about the business of Guelph Municipal Holdings Inc and Guelph Junction Railway, companies owned by the City of Guelph making city council their one and only shareholder. As for that regular meeting, think plastics, and think about that big decision on the Dill Hall for which some other artists in the community had notes. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Shareholder Reports and Drill Hall Decision Refined”
It’s time for the July planning meeting, and this month, like last month, there are a number of heritage projects and designations for council’s consideration. Aside from heritage, there’s also future on the agenda, a new housing project from an area not-for-profit and a decision on a previously presented project in the south end. So let’s talk about the best laid planning before summer vacation. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the July 9, 2024 Meeting?”
One more meeting before the end of the month! You can click here for the amended agendas from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. Due to the relatively brief agenda, there was no live coverage on Twitter, but you can read the break down of the meeting below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for June 25, 2024”
Another year has gone by, so let’s get an update bout GMHI and Guelph Junction Railway. You can click here and here for the amended agendas from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. Due to the relatively brief agenda, there was no live coverage on Twitter, but you can read the break down of the meeting below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Shareholder Meetings for June 25, 2024”
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