Comprehensive Coverage of Hamilton's Civic Affairs
With the end of the OMB, and the beginning of LPAT, the final draft of Hamilton’s Downtown Secondary Plan to be released on March 19 could be very different from the October draft.
We need to be thinking ahead.
In 2015, I wrote an often cited column How to Define Hamilton’s Neighbourhood Boundaries and Localisms: East, West, North, South, Upper and Lower?,
Now, only three years later, the piece is outdated in some areas because of the substantial growth in grassroots engagement.
What has changed in the past three years?
City Council is suffering losses and setbacks at the Ontario Municipal Board as video of their statements is entered into evidence.
During the 90 minutes of public delegations, Councillors had no questions for delegates, sitting silently and listening as delegate after delegate took Council to task for creating the HSR Transit Crisis.
Fire departments across Ontario will be required to release their response times starting in 2020.
“The Board does have a public interest function”, Swinkin asserted to the objection of the City’s lawyer. “You may say they [the public] are not here and not appellants, but the Board will serve its public interest function and look out for those interests”.
The City of Hamilton is negotiating with over 20 parties who appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board against the City’s new Commercial Mixed Use Zoning.
In order to maintain the City’s credit rating, the $19.4-million will be administered as a loan from the reserves and repaid over 15 years at a 3.1% increase rate for a total cost of $24.3-million.
This week, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce announced that Dave is posthumously Hamilton’s 2017 Citizen of the Year.
Below is an edited version of the letter I submitted supporting Dave’s nomination.
J.A.N. Group Inc filed an appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board on their application for a four storey residential building at 261 King Street East in Stoney Creek. The site is located west of Green Road.
