On Council agenda is a Staff recommendation for water and waste water rates for 2019.  The average  blended bill (i.e. water and waste water) for a household using 250 cubic meters of water /year is $158.56, 11.8% .  It is a big increase; logic for such is as follows.  1.  Consistent with previous 4 years the 9% increase in the whole sale rate from York Region is being passed on.   The increase...

On Council agenda for December 10 there is report recommending approval in principle of zoning bylaw amendment for the KeeleOne project. It has been 2 years since the public meeting was held for this development.  I continue to be excited by this proposal and am relieved to see that the concept has not changed substantially.    Many of the concerns identified earlier have been addressed: size of...

On Dec. 10 agenda there is Staff report recommending a significant change in how to respond to requests for exemptions to the bylaws restricting parking, particularly the restrictions during the winter months.  I think the recommended plan sounds excellent:  focused on customer/client need, uses technology, cost effective.

Here is Staff report proposing an amendment to our parking by-law to address the problem of heavy trucks parked on municipal roadways.  I think the recommendation to prohibit such across the Township is sound.