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
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...
Apartment West Side Keele
On Monday April 4 Council agenda there is a report regarding the applications to amend the Official Plan and the zoning bylaw for King City-Schomberg to enable the building of a six story apartment building with 247 units. The site for this building is west side of Keele across from Elizabeth Grove St and going further south; at the north end there is currently the industrial building which was...
I adore this building! Just the way it sits high in its location…the recessed front door and its wrap-around windows,…
Very nice to hear from you, Peter. It would be my guess that this announcement of intent to designate would…
I agree with Bruce Craig and I too, support this designation.
I complement the Heritage Committee for their recommendation. It is very important that key parts of King’s history and heritage…
Yes, this building along King Road is a wonderful part of King's built heritage and has had several interesting uses…