Tag: Heritage Designation

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the September 10, 2025 Meeting?

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Let’s call it a planning week. A day following the regularly scheduled planning meeting for this month, we will get an additional planning meeting. A special meeting for a special project, if you will. Remember the Guelph Innovation District Secondary Plan? Well, it’s going to get a workout as the first block plans finally come to council for approval, and in a surprising twist, staff are not offering a ringing endorsement. Let’s get into it… Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the September 10, 2025 Meeting?” →

RECAP: New Heritage Advisory Committee Gets Oriented

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For the first time, the Heritage Advisory Committee met. Yes, there are some old faces from the old Heritage Guelph days (which was one month ago), but there were also some new ones. In this initial meeting not a lot of actual heritage protection got done, but there was a lot of expectation setting and discussion about what the powers of this slightly rejiggered heritage committee can do. Plus, there was some vice-chair election drama! Check out the recap. Continue reading “RECAP: New Heritage Advisory Committee Gets Oriented” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Advisory Committee Meeting for June 5, 2025

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New name, old committee. As previously reported, there weren’t many changes made to the operation of Heritage Guelph, but since this is kind of the first meeting of a new committee, we take a break from the seemingly non-stop series of designations these last few months and get into some orientation. Sit back, relax, and get ready to learn all about this new Heritage Advisory Committee from the basement to the rafters! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Advisory Committee Meeting for June 5, 2025” →

This Week at Council: Signs and Apartments, and Two Tied Votes

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This month’s planning meeting of city council had three phases. First was the one new development application, which came with some very old arguments against it. Then there was a vote about re-approving a heritage designation, which was swiftly followed by a vote to un-designate. And then third, a discussion about administrative changes to the Sign Bylaw that went way too deep. Check out the details in the recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Signs and Apartments, and Two Tied Votes” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for May 13, 2025

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Let the planning commence! 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 Blue Sky, 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 May 13, 2025” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the May 13, 2025 Meeting?

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The planning meeting this month of May will focus on three very different and specific things. First, council will consider yet another appeal of another heritage designation. Then, unlike last month, council will mull over a potential new development. And finally, council will look at some updates to a bylaw that tells you where the signs can all go. Will there be fireworks before Victoria Day? I guess we’ll see. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the May 13, 2025 Meeting?” →

This Week at Council: Downtown is Getting Higher, While Stone Road is Getting a Plan

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The planning meeting of council for the month of April involved getting high. Or, to put that another way, it involved re-establishing height limits. The ones downtown. Council considered how high buildings can go in the future, and then they moved their gaze to the south end with a new project on Clair Road, before looking at a new way to make housing happen faster in the area around Stone Road Mall. Let’s get into the recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Downtown is Getting Higher, While Stone Road is Getting a Plan” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for April 8, 2025

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April showers with new planning concerns this week! 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 April 8, 2025” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 8, 2025 Meeting?

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Welcome to the agenda for the April planning meeting, and for the first time in a couple of months we have a genuine planning proposal for new units. That’s later in the agenda, first, council has approve another whole batch of heritage designations, and then approve two major pieces of policy in the form of getting higher downtown (building-wise speaking) and charging density and development in the area around Stone Road Mall. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 8, 2025 Meeting?” →

RECAP: Heritage Guelph Defers Key Agenda Items Till April

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If you rolled up to the virtual meeting of Heritage Guelph this month expecting a fulsome and robust discussion on important matters of heritage within the city were bound to be disappointed because it was over in less than 10 minutes. After barely getting to quorum, the committee deferred the two major pieces of business (which were also deferred from the February meeting), but to see what did get finished, check out the recap. Such as it is… Continue reading “RECAP: Heritage Guelph Defers Key Agenda Items Till April” →