Hamilton City Council’s licensing committee, the Licensing Tribunal, held its first meeting since February 2020 this morning.
This is the first in-person City of Hamilton public meeting since the beginning of the COVID pandemic in March 2020.
Posted inPlanning and Development
City and Medallion Reach Deal to Allow New Nine-Storey Rental Building at 195 Wellington Street South
The Ontario Land Tribunal is expected to approve next week, the deal including protections for existing tenants with condition no building permits will be issued unless the City is satisfied tenants are properly relocated.
Posted inPlanning and Development
After Provincial Intervention, McMaster Wins Exception from Development Charges for Private Partnerships
The City of Hamilton agrees to amend its development charges bylaw to exempt McMaster’s private-public partnerships from DCs.
Posted inCity Hall
Ontario Auditor General: Province Failing To Prevent and Respond to Homelessness
Report finds a lack of tracking, data collection, spending oversight, and strategies as serious problems and calls on the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and House to act immediately to standardize municipal approaches to homelessness, ensure reliable data collection, implement spending oversight, and to set standards for everything from affordable housing waitlist prioritization to emergency shelter operations.
Posted inBriefs, City Hall
Hamilton Planning Staff Releasing Discussion Paper on Migrant Farmer Residences in Jan or Feb
The paper will discuss servicing, location, and size requirements for this form of housing.
Posted inCity Hall
City of Hamilton Releases Proposed Truck Routes
Report recommends keeping major downtown streets as truck routes, but will prohibit nearly all double trailer vehicles from driving through the downtown.
Posted inJoey's Notepad
Hamilton Health Sciences at 25 Years: Notes from Innovation in Real Places
The founding of Hamilton Health Sciences 25 years ago features prominently in this year’s Balsille Prize for Public Policy winner Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World authored by University of Toronto professor Dan Breznitz.
Posted inBriefs
BRIEF: A City of Hamilton Museum Still on the Table
Hamilton City Council voted today to instruct city staff to keep working to find and create a physical space for a museum to display the City’s civic artifacts and educate people on the history of the City of Hamilton – including all our region’s former municipalities and the Indigenous cultures which were originally here. Last […]
Posted inColeman's Notes
Vote Against Urban Boundary Expansion Reveals Change in Municipal Politics Power Balance
For as long as anyone can remember, the development industry’s interests have always won at Council.
Now, online mobilization and membership lists are changing that.
Posted inBriefs, City Hall
Hamilton Street Railway Wants Metrolinx to Extend Dundas Street BRT to McMaster University
In an email, the HSR’s senior transit planner writes “Maybe Metrolinx could get moving on their Dundas Street BRT (which desired extension to Mac) sooner, rather than later?”