Tag: Council Meeting

Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 4, 2025 Meeting?

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The first couple of Committee of the Whole meeting this year have been pretty dry, but this March meeting is very stacked by comparison! First, there will be long awaited final report on changes to advisory committee of councils, and along with that there will be the mid-term review of governance at city council. And if that’s not enough, we’ll talk about water, traffic, and how we can get by better without single-use plastics! Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 4, 2025 Meeting?” →

This Week at Council: In the Heights, and Affordable Housing!

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It was another three-pack of meetings at city council this week with two meetings where council sat as a shareholder of corporations owned by the City of Guelph, and then there was the monthly planning meeting. On that one, no specific projects were discussed, but there was a lot of policy covered including new grants for affordable housing, new heights for downtown, and maybe a new train connection in the region… Continue reading “This Week at Council: In the Heights, and Affordable Housing!” →

RECAP: City Council Planning Meeting for February 11, 2025

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Let’s plan again, as we do every month at this time! 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 Planning Meeting for February 11, 2025” →

RECAP: City Council Shareholder Meeting for February 11, 2025

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Before the planning meeting, council will be a shareholder. You can click here and 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 Shareholder Meeting for February 11, 2025” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 11, 2025 Planning Meeting?

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This month’s planning meeting features no new developments, but it does lay the potential ground work for future developments. Coming up at this meeting is the first phase of how high we can go downtown, and another new community improvement plan. We will also hear about two objections to two different heritage designations, and, for a change of pace, we will talk about trains (on the same night as the GJR shareholder meeting)! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 11, 2025 Planning Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 11, 2025 Shareholder Meetings?

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A shareholder meeting? In February? Has the world gone topsy-turvy?! Not really. While it’s true that the shareholder meeting for both Guelph Municipal Holdings Inc. and Guelph Junction Railway is in June, there’s a kind of small but important piece that city council needs to do as the shareholder for both these organisations before they close out the fiscal year. Let’s get into it! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 11, 2025 Shareholder Meetings?” →

This Week at Council: Community Permits and One Big Development

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It’s another one of those times when city council schedules two meetings in one 24-hour period. We’ll worry about that second meeting another time, for now we’re all about planning matters, and at the first meeting on this subject this year there was a first look at a major new piece of policy, and a first look at a pretty major new development in the east end. So let’s get into all of that with this week’s recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Community Permits and One Big Development” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for January 21, 2025

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Are you ready to do some planning? 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 January 21, 2025” →

This Week at Council: Back to Work!

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After a long winter’s break, Guelph city council got back to business with two meetings this past week, one was entirely closed to the public but deeply impactful and the other was Committee of the Whole where some administrative stuff happened. Not irrelevant, that “stuff” included a co-ordinated plan to petition upper levels of government about the issues that matter to Guelph. But for now, what matters is this recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Back to Work!” →

RECAP: Committee of the Whole Meeting for January 14, 2025

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Have you missed city council recaps? They’re baaaaaaack. 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 January 14, 2025” →