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The urbanized areas of Wards 10 and 11 are moving from the rural tax base to urban, means a shirt of fire costs and increases of between $113 to $178 to the average rural properties tax bill.
The City-Wide Appeals of Hamilton’s Commercial Mixed Use Zoning will be heard over February and March in 2022.
The closures of businesses and schools changed water-demand across Hamilton in 2020, with the City needing to add a flushing unit near Barton Secondary School to address low water demand.
Hamilton City Council faces a choice today: expand the urban boundary or challenge the Ontario Progressive Conservative government’s requirement for them to expand the boundary.
“At this point I am saying we stick in Red and continue to monitor the numbers” – Dr. Richardson
“I’m quite certain we’re gonna move into Grey and we’ll be in Grey for a number of weeks”, says Dr Doug Sider, a communicable disease specialist with Hamilton Public Health.
Councillors Lloyd Ferguson and Tom Jackson both voted against bollards at City Hall, saying bollards would not stop the window smashing that occurred on Locke Street in March 2018.
Adding professional expertise to Boards of Health was recommended in 2004 by the SARS Commission, at least three current City Councillors remain opposed to making changes.
Land values are driving the variances at Hamilton’s Committee of Adjustment this week with numerous applications for severances and secondary units.
The Municipal Act states Councillors cannot be absent “for three successive months without being authorized to do so” but what does three months mean?