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Proposal will cut Council ratification meetings to 15 in 2025, from 19 in 2024 – a decrease of nearly 25 percent.
Council will have 18 weeks “off” in 2025.
This is another indication that settlement talks regarding the future redevelopment of the Jamesville site are progressing well, and a settlement may be close.
The Ontario Land Tribunals says the sides will seek a settlement approval hearing for late November.
Library plans to spend $1.5-mil on digital network infrastructure, and $2.9-mil to renovate the Mount Hope library branch.
City staff will be summoned to testify contrary to City Council’s position opposing new rental housing at 399 Greenhill Avenue.
Council’s opposition to new rental housing has been cited by the federal Conservatives as gate-keeping against housing.
Final design is a lower height, includes separate between towers, more predominance for the heritage high school, and more multi-bedroom units.
Overall, the responses to the proposal are positive, with responding comments asking for further details or providing suggestions for changes. However, the City’s environment review office does not support the draft plan. The City’s landscape architects and parks staff were very positive about some of the design features the environmental staff do not support.
Hamilton Library puts 2026 construction cost on the books as it prepares to convert the Discovery Centre into a new library branch with Indigenous community space.
Meta decides scam page does not violate its community standards
Hamilton 2018 ward boundary changes created Ward 14 as the only political division without a library in the ward
