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Hamilton Council to Discuss Feasibility of Studying New Taxes – Including a Land Transfer Tax

by Joey ColemanJanuary 12, 2025January 12, 2025

In May 2024, City Council voted to request a report on new revenue options to address the City’s annual deficits.
The revenue options report discuss the pros and cons of land transfer, alcohol, tobacco, and parking taxes.

City Hall News

Company delivering Hamilton’s Tiny Shelters “Administratively Dissolved” by U.S. Officials

by Joey ColemanJanuary 12, 2025

Hamilton’s Tiny Homes middleman, Global Axxis, LLC, was administratively dissolved on Thursday for failing to file annual reports, according to the Wyoming Secretary of State’s website

City of Hamilton Staff Support Proposed Ontario Record of Site Condition Changes for Redevelopment and Brownfields

by Joey ColemanJanuary 11, 2025

City staff note changes will make commercial to residential conversions

Licensing

Council to Vote on Changes to Hamilton’s Pay Day Loan Business Restrictions

by Joey ColemanJanuary 10, 2025January 10, 2025

Council to vote to permit a pay day loan to move locations, and then give staff delegated authority to approve location changes

Planning and Development

Hamilton Council to Vote on Tivoli Demolition

by Joey ColemanJanuary 10, 2025January 11, 2025

Hamilton’s Municipal Heritage Committee votes in favour of permitting demo, agreeing with new owners the historic auditorium is beyond saving

Planning and Development

Hamilton Conservation Board Denies Application to Build Six-Storey Residential at 55 Cootes in Dundas

by Joey ColemanJanuary 10, 2025January 10, 2025

Proposed building on will be vulnerable to flooding, Conservation Board rules flooding cannot be mitigated, and lives be at risk if built.

City Hall News

The Barton/Tiffany Tiny Shelters Are Late, Again

by Joey ColemanJanuary 10, 2025January 12, 2025

The City has no timeline for the arrival of the tiny shelter units. However, it remains confident that the Barton/Tiffany site will be operational “beginning in mid-January.”

Ontario Land Tribunal, Planning and Development

Ancaster Fiddlers Green Retirement Home Developer Files Non-Decision Appeal to OLT

by Joey ColemanJanuary 9, 2025January 9, 2025

City planning staff say the proposal is not compatible with the existing neighbourhood, and will result in the loss of 35 of 44 trees on the property.

Hamilton Committee of Adjustment

Council to Debate Committee of Adjustment’s Repeated Overruling of Rural Zoning Rules

by Joey ColemanJanuary 9, 2025January 9, 2025

The CoA is approving intensification in areas without municipal water and sewage services.

2025 City of Hamilton Budget

Hamilton Increasing Building Permit Fees by 3 percent for 2025

by Joey ColemanJanuary 9, 2025January 9, 2025

City staff state building division operating cots will increase by 7.8 percent, but such a high increase may worsen Hamilton’s housing affordability crisis.