Open houses are being conducted for the zoning by-law review in King City and Schomberg.  I have been impatient waiting for this to start as this is the means to protect our mature subdivisions.  Specifically, this is where we have the opportunity to effectively influence the inevitable changes in our established subdivisions.  It is not about stopping change which is neither desirable nor possible; but, we can have a much greater say in what the change looks like than we currently have. The first open house for King City is Tuesday, June 14 6:30-8:30; presentation will be at 7.  You can find further details here.

The review has been done for Nobleton; the plan is to re-apply that template to address the specific characteristics of King City and Schomberg.  The benefit of this is that we should be able to accomplish the work much more quickly.  e.g.  The detail work of definitions has been done; the format of the by-law is developed.  As was done for Nobleton  design work shops for each of King City and Schomberg are scheduled and participants were sollicited earlier.   Even though deadline for the latter has passed, if you are interested please contact Sarah Allin at sallin@king.ca  (or 905 833 4066) as there may be room for you.  The King City work shop is June 29; the one in Schomberg is July 12 6:30-9PM.

I hope that there is good attendance to the open houses (for King City it is on  6/14) as this is an excellent way to understand the opportunity before us by getting this review done well.  As I recall attendees at the Nobleton session were every enthusiastic and excited by what they heard.