It’s time to talk about housing 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 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: Second City Council Meeting for July 11, 2023”
A few planning matters to clear up before summer break! 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 Planning Meeting for July 11, 2023”
In the penultimate meeting night of city council before the summer break, the horseshoe will tackle a complicated subject that’s progressively becoming more and more complicated. Development Charges is the topic of two back-to-back meetings; where they’ve been, where they are, and where they’re going next. Prepare to feel better informed about the subject! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the July 19 Meetings?”
The second Tuesday of the month is usually reserved for the planning meeting, and there’s no bigger planning matter right now than housing. So in a special meeting for this Tuesday, and as a special post-planning meeting treat, council will be holding a workshop that’s all about housing. What are the challenges? What are the opportunities? And what can council do to get more housing going in the city? Let’s take a look. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Second July 11 Meeting?”
After a couple of months with nothing controversial in new applications, we’ve got something really controversial for you this month, and obviously, it’s not the new semi-detached home or the proposed garage demolition. There are two new applications, a demolition request and some changes to the delegated authority all on this agenda, the last planning meeting before summer vacation! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the July 11 Planning Meeting?”
This week, there back-to-back council meetings, and one of them looked bigger than normal in terms of the number of people around the horseshoe, which was really more like a round table. A joint meeting of Guelph City Council and Wellington County Council was held to talk about the issues facing paramedics, while Guelph council on it’s own had to deal with a matter of funding more police downtown. Continue reading “This Week at Council: Police Money and Paramedic Needs”
Council is going to try and get smarter about paramedic matters. 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 June 1, 2023”
June starts with a city council meeting, another workshop/orientation meeting, and the subject this time is a very important and timely topic indeed. You’ve probably been following the news in the last several months about the long lines of ambulances frequently seen outside Guelph General Hospital, or maybe you’ve seen them for yourself, well this meeting will outline the potential political response. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the June 1 Meeting?”
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”
Let’s revisit this month’s Committee agenda! 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 28, 2023”
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