Welcome to my blog! MY primary objective is to alert my constituents and others in King Township about issues being reviewed at the upcoming Council meetings. I do this as I believe the quality of Council decisions is enhanced when the public is engaged. I hope that residents will make deputations and/or send emails to Council to express their opinion and/or to ask important questions. Also, I include notice of meetings and events which I think are particularly important. I welcome your comments, whether you agree or not with me, and only edit to eliminate inappropriate language.
Recent Posts
New Townhouses on King Road
Tuesday, September 6 is the statatutory public meeting to enable the development of a block at 1986,2000 and 2008 King Road with 26 conventional townhouses in freehold common element condominium units. As said in earlier post we have seen applications earlier for this property under two separate owners who each had different concepts. To my mind this type of dwelling is entirely appropriate...
King Heritage & Cultural Centre
To improve accessibility the King Heritage & Cultural Centre is undergoing facility renovations including new accessible doors on all entrances and an accessible administrative desk, washrooms and gift shop. When the project was included the 2022 budget I smiled as I thought about how far we have come: in 2013 we agreed to sublet a portion of the Museum, as it existed then, to the developer...
Public Planning Meeting for Townhouses in King City
Tuesday September 6 there is a Public Planning Meeting. (Typically these meetings are the first Monday of the month but as the first Monday of September is a statutory holiday it is being held on the Tuesday.) It is for a draft subdivision and zoning bylaw amendment for lands immediately west of the King City Library and Seniors Centre, specifically 1986, 2000, and 2008 King Road. The...
Township Wide Recreation Centre Update
In an earlier post I reviewed the funding sources for the $86 million budget for the new recreation centre. As reviewed the latter is a very positive story as <10% is from tax payers and that is actually from reserves accumulated in the past. There is now another very positive story: the open-loop geothermal investigation was recently completed with favourable results. This means that...
I’m sorry, but I am very skeptical about a development that has requested an extra 5 lots to allow for…
323 units are being proposed. The Zancor development on 15th was approved about 10 years ago. Lovely…but huge, costly homes.…
323 units are being proposed. The Zancor development on 15th was approved about 10 years ago. Lovely…but huge, costly homes.…
Thanks for mentioning this. I was thinking that the developer was ignoring the seasonal pond near the 15th Sideroad, so…
Excellent idea to carry forward. I remember Susan Swail, former councillor, mentioning that she was hoping to get this idea…