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
Development Charges
On Nov. 16 Council agenda there is a staff report presenting information about the new development charge (DC) bylaw being prepared and reviewing the process leading up to presentation of a new bylaw for approval by Council in January 24, 2021. DC's are the costs which anyone pays if there is to be a building permit; clearly the magnitude is different whether it is to build a replacement house...
Wetlands Under Attack
It will be no surprise to those who know me and/or read my blog that I am very disturbed by the news that wetlands are being considered as obstacles to development; and that rather than modifying a project (i.e change its location) permissions are being granted by the Province to fill them in. It is by no means a new "crime" as they have been disappearing since the Europeans arrived and we...
Green Building Standards
On Nov.16 Council agenda there is a staff report presenting the final version of sustainable developement standards for approval by Council; also presented is the plan for implementing with a start date of February 2021 for all new site plan applications. This program has been a long time in coming; first version was checklist in 2013. Since then there has been changes in expectations and...
Traffic Calming Strategy
On Council agenda there is staff report recommending approval of the traffic calming strategy. This has been a long time in process; but, we have ended up with a robust program utilizing feedback from the community. It makes a lot of sense to me that there are 3 streams of initiatives. 1st there is the community; good example of that is implementation of a consistent speed limit (40 km)...
Excellent idea to carry forward. I remember Susan Swail, former councillor, mentioning that she was hoping to get this idea…
Wonderful idea. How can our amazing community groups help get this done?
I was fortunate to hear the inspiring, educational talk on the Trail by Mr. Ian Craig. I’m so pleased that…
Thank you for your support Nancy and very importantly thank you for the memory of Susan Susan B.
Excellent plan. I remember the late Susan Beharriell trying to make this happen years ago. Let's hope that it really…