News and Updates in King Township
I use this blog to inform you of issues within the Township which are being assessed at the Council table as well as tell you about events happening in the Township which are of interest.
Craft Beer and Food Truck Festival
Only a few days to go! Hope to see you at the King City Craft Beer and Food Truck Fest on Saturday, July 11. You can buy your tickets online to avoid the queue and to secure your ticket at lower cost. To get you salivating check out the list of gourmet food trucks...
ASK Rocks Us Into Summer with a Concert
Canada Day Celebration in Kettleby
Canada Day 2016 is only 3 weeks away. The grand tradition of a celebration at Tyrwhitt Park in Kettleby continues: lovely park for family activities and fireworks to complete the day. And there is something new: Pops' Kitchen will be preparing delicious barbecue;...
Project MOVE (new municipal offices)
From 5-6PM on May 30 there is an open house at the Council Chambers to see preliminary design concepts, to understand timing. Here is notice for this open house. You can drop in any time during the hour; there is no presentation in that hour. Staff report for MOVE...
Severance Application–Warren Road, King City
On Council 5/30 agenda there is a Staff report on the Warren Road severance application. The technical assessment made by Planning Staff is thorough. As I personally wrestle with this application I keep coming back to two philosophical points. i) Our villages...
Clean Yards By-law
On 5/30 Council agenda there is a report presenting a new by-law addressing the need to establish standards and subsequent enforcement for more matters affecting the appearance of properties. What is proposed is not a change in standards but rather how those...
Protecting Mature Neighbourhoods: need your help!
Design workshops are being held for King City on June 29 and for Schomberg on July 12 as input into creating new zoning by-laws for each. Residents & business owners within these communities are needed as participants. Intent of the new zoning by-laws is to...
King City Craft Beer and Food Truck Festival
King City Craft Beer and Food Truck Festival Saturday June 11 12 noon to 9:30 King City Memorial Park Every year this event is getting better! You can purchase tickets on line and avoid the line-up. And if you don't drink beer but just want the wonderful food...
Animal Control Standards…new by-law
See public notice for a meeting on June 13 re: new by-law to govern animal control and to establish minimum standard for responsible animal ownership. You can attend that meeting to provide comments.
Level the Field in Municipal Elections
As the Province is amending the municipal elections act (Bill 181) I have made a motion for discussion at May 16 Council on campaign financing. I am seeking support for a resolution that we encourage the Province to ban Corporate and Union donations to municipal...
Understanding Densities in Development
At Council on May 8th there is Staff report on policy direction for our Official Plan. I have not had opportunity to read it yet so I cannot meaningfully comment except to say that I know its important for anyone who is interested in the Official Plan update...
Nobleton Zoning By-law: final draft
At May 16 Council there is a public meeting for the draft Nobleton Zoning By-law. (NZBL) This is significant milestone in our program to have updated zoning by-laws for the 3 villages as King City and Schomberg's new ones will be based on the Nobleton one. I am very...
Recent Comments


What I would like to see is the actual recycling of most of the items in the blue boxes. We…
Good overview and assessment of current situation, and the situation that got us to this point . King Twp has…
thank you for your feedback and acknowledgement of the effort required to understand the budget.
Hi Nancy, Working sessions are really education type meeting for Council members. There isa Council report in the agenda and…
This has got to be the strangest working session. “Overview of King’s Citizen Experience Plan” does not allow for citizens…
Hi Deb, as always your blast/posts are SO helpful! You are a marvel. Your summaries are succinct, informative, opinionated with…
Hi Bruce, just yesterday somebody was telling me about Simcoe and the choices they had.
Hi Debbie, Of interest, Simcoe County has had the carts on wheels for recycling, organics and garbage for some time…
Hello John, good question. I cannot answer at this point; you can be sure I’m going to be finding out.
Since the township is saving on the recycling expense, will this savings be passed on to us the tax payers…