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
Motion for a Lake Simcoe Cleanup Fund
On April 11 council agenda there is a motion put forward by Councillor Eek indicating support for federal funding for a Lake Simcoe restoration fund. I was very pleased to second this motion which indicates specifically how that fund should be used. As reviewed in the motion Lake Simcoe is a very important watershed and is under considerable threat due to,eutrofication, largely from phosphorus...
Email Retention
On April 11 Council agenda there is a staff report recommending policies regarding emails sent and received by the Township. As reviewed in the report there has been extensive engagement with other municipalities and different agencies including the Province. The statistics certainly demonstrate a need for a policy: in a 30 day timeframe King received 120,000 emails and sent over 40,500. As...
Building Division
On April 11th Council agenda there is the year end report from the Building Division. Reading this report certainly gives the data to support what has been very evident: there is a lot of building activity going on in King Township. I also want to mention the initiative that the Division has taken to explain the process for acquiring a building permit; here is their guidebook for getting...
Oak Ridges Moraine: some history and today’s challenges
As the Oak Ridges Moraine (ORM) is a very significant landform which influences King significantly and for which King has stewardship responsibility, the speaker at the AGM for Concerned Citizens of King Township (CCKT) is very timely. Steven Gilchrist was one of the planners who worked on the creation of the ORMCP >20 years ago; and, he has continued to monitor and comment on development...
I am saddened, frustrated and very disappointed about demolition approval of the historic house at 12650 Highway 27. King Township…
The Gvt provides a process for evaluating applications to install towers.
riina.bray@rogers.com Hi Debbie, what exactly is the Federal gov doing? we can't have towers going up anywhere and everywhere.
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.…