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.
Greenbelt Expressway is not the way!
I am delighted to tell you that the Greenbelt Alliance has categorically criticized the recommendation for a new highway in Vaughan as being the way to address the congestion between the urban growth centers as part of the GTA West Corridor. Click here to read their...
Road Maintenance—poor decision making
How do you set priorities when you don’t have enough money to do everything? Like many municipalities King has a huge backlog of road maintenance projects; I suspect our situation is particularly acute as we are responsible for a lot of local roads but our population...
Emerald Ash Borer
Very unfortunately King will be joining the list of municipalities visited by the destructive emerald ash borer. Not only is the insect destructive, the control method is harsh: cut the tree down! York Region has released its management plan for trees in their...
Metrolinx Report/Presentation to King Council
Of interest to current users and would-be users of public transit...... there is a special Committee of the Whole on Monday July 11th at 5PM in King Council Chambers. Speaker: Mr. Leslie Woo, Vice-President, Policy, Planning and Innovation, Metrolinx. Topic: ...
Mark Your Calendar!
Hold this Date Monday, September 5 noon-10PM at Memorial Park, King City King City End of Summer Bash Stay tuned for more details about fun for all, live music and food.
Sustainability…what our new houses could be
There is so much we could do IF we had the political will and/or if as individuals we would accept our responsibility to act. There are solutions “out there.” What has precipitated this rant on my part? I took a tour of the Green Home in Richmond Hill (213 Coon’s...
Earth Rangers Centre
In a separate post I talked about visiting the Green Home in Richmond Hill. I was well primed for seeing it --a real actual house in a subdivision with “green” features-- as a week earlier I was given a tour of the Earth Rangers Centre on the Kortright Living City...
Our Gateways
The landscape is particularly beautiful these days with early summer blooms. But, I have now been alerted to keep an eye for some man-made constructs which are spread all over: entrances to subdivisions. The specifics vary: bricks or stone, pillars or walls, some...
GTA West Corridor
Stage 1 of the Environmental Assessment for the GTA West Corridor has been completed; a draft is now circulating for comments up until 6/30/11. As anticipated (with regret) the recommendation is to build a new east/west highway to facilitate the movement of goods...
Roads: maintaining and improving
As I have indicated in another posting, investments in roads are not high in my value equation. But once we have them, we do need to maintain them; and for sure, we need to address serious safety issues. York Region gave Council a report on May 30 reviewing various...
Roads: building new ones
Has a new road ever really solved a traffic congestion problem? No. And despite that this is proven over and over we continue to create new rivers of pavement and pour million of dollars into first building new roads and then maintaining them with the goal of...
Gas Pipeline Construction
As mentioned in an earlier posting I have had an outstanding question with Enbridge about the “make-up” of the 3,600 pipeline strikes in Ontario. Statistics for 2010 have now been provided. 67% (2,412) of damage- causing strikes were on 1/2 inch pipes i.e. pipes to...
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…