Physical visits to library branches reached 50 percent of pre-pandemic levels before the omicron wave of COVID, with total circulation, digital and physical, down 36 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels.
Posted inHamilton Library Board
295% Increase in “Long Overdue” Items Since October 2020
Hamilton’s Public Library is receiving complaints about increasing wait times for items not being returned, and considering incentives to encourage on-time returns.
Posted inPlanning and Development
Committee of Adjustment Votes Against Allowing Secondary Unit Because Students
Student rentals ‘pose a problem’ for the neighbourhood, says the CoA Member who moved the denial.
Posted inData, News
Analysis: Looking at the 547 Hamilton “Convoy” Donors on the Hacked GiveSendGo List
$72,169 Canadian worth of donations came from Hamilton postal code. A look where donors live in Hamilton, and the social media footprints of the top donors.
Posted inCity Hall
Hamilton Considering Converting Streets into Parkland
The City is updating its Parks Master Plan and looking at “non-traditional places” to address parkland shortages, including entering into agreements to lease private land.
Posted inBriefs, Planning and Development
Planning Brief: 1107 Main Street West Developer Public Info Site
Application to rezone the property to permit building a 15-storey mixed-use building with ground-level commercial units and 269 residential units.
Posted inBriefs, Planning and Development
Planning Brief: 200 Centennial North Mixed-Use Redevelopment Public Info Site Launched
SmartCentres is planning to begin conversion of its Barton and Centennial (Food Basics) Plaza into a mixed-use community beginning with four mid-to-tall buildings.
Posted inData
Census 2021 Hamilton Population Data: Unoccupied Units
The why of how StatCan’s count of ‘occupied’ residential units is unhelpful because students are not “usual residents” and their housing is counted as ‘unoccupied’.
Posted inData
Census 2021 Hamilton: Population Growth in Downtown, Binbrook, Upper Stoney Creek, Waterdown
Hamilton’s population increased by 32,436 between the 2016 and 2021 censuses, bringing our total population estimate to 569,353 people, an increase of 6.04 percent from the 2016 population estimate of 536,917.
Posted inBriefs
2021 StatsCan Annual Population Estimates Show GTA’ers Moving to Hamilton
Data released in January showed nearly 5,000 people moved to Hamilton from other parts of the GTA between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2021. The Census metropolitan area data is available here, Hamilton’s CMA includes Burlington and Grimsby.