Tag: Kindle Communities

Trudeau Comes to Town to Announce Guelph’s Share of Housing Accelerator Fund

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It’s not every day that the Prime Minister of Canada comes to town, and it’s not every time that he’s bringing millions of dollars to help tackle the housing crisis. But both of these things came to pass on Friday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the in-progress Kindle Communities project on Shelldale and announced that the City of Guelph’s share of the House Accelerator Fund is $21.4 million. Continue reading “Trudeau Comes to Town to Announce Guelph’s Share of Housing Accelerator Fund” →

This Week in Council: A Kindle Plan

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If there’s a city council meeting in August, then you know that it has to be a pretty big deal. Picking up almost literally where we left off at the last meeting of council a few weeks ago, councillors and senior staff took a few minutes out of their summer vacation to approve the funding for the Kindle Communities supportive housing project on Shelldale. In other words, process wins! Here’s the recap… Continue reading “This Week in Council: A Kindle Plan” →

LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for August 16, 2023

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It’s an August meeting! You can click here for the amended agendas 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 August 16, 2023” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Meeting on August 16?

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A council meeting in August? It doesn’t usually happen, but if you are a dedicated reader in this space, you have been expecting the announcement. If you’re familiar with the events at the regular council meeting at the end of July, then you will remember that there was one rather big new item on a tight deadline that needs an answer, and in this special August meeting of council, we will get that answer. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Meeting on August 16?” →

This Week at Council: Housing Request Opens Door to August Meeting

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It was supposed to be the last council meeting before the usual August break, but the events of this week’s regular meeting of council did something unusual: It ended with a cliffhanger. The door was opened to a potential August meeting for a matter involving supportive housing and the raising the money to cover it. It terms of the business settled at the meeting itself, but there were also a few complications there too. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Housing Request Opens Door to August Meeting” →

Ground Broken on Kindle Communities Project, Plus New Money

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The ground has been broken on another new supportive housing development in Guelph. Approved last summer by council, the Shelldale Cres. project sponsored by Kindle Communities and SkyDev, a subsidiary of Skyline developers, has begun construction after a well-attended ground breaking on Wednesday that also delivered tremendous funding for the project from a variety of sources. Continue reading “Ground Broken on Kindle Communities Project, Plus New Money” →

This Month at Council Part 1: Operations Campus Update and a Contentious Planning Meeting

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Jam-packed meetings started the month of May with a committee meeting that covered a lot of different money matters, both immediate and long-term, and then with a planning meeting that featured four controversial planning proposals. In part one of the monthly council recap, we will go from a COVID update from public health, to concerns about over-protecting local heritage in the city’s east end. Continue reading “This Month at Council Part 1: Operations Campus Update and a Contentious Planning Meeting” →

LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for May 10, 2021

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It’s going to be a long night at city council with some big planning matters on the 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 May 10, 2021” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the May 10 Meeting?

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This month’s planning meeting of city council will be very busy. There are a couple of new public meetings on a couple of interesting new projects, plus a decision report on a previous, some-what controversial project in the west end of town. If planning in a more general, macro sense is more your speed, staff will present their final vision for the east end of the city. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the May 10 Meeting?” →

This Month at Council: Patios, No Proxies, More Supportive Housing, and Patios(!)

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At Guelph city council, March came in like a lion, and it went out like a… slightly smaller lion. Since the weather was (mostly) nice, it was perhaps unsurprising that this summer’s patio program took up so much of the meeting time this month, but there were other matters covered including more planning applications, and the mid-term governance review. Here’s the council recap from March. Continue reading “This Month at Council: Patios, No Proxies, More Supportive Housing, and Patios(!)” →