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The retained front facade of the James Baptist Church from a 2015 Raise The Hammer file photo.
The vacancy will come with approximately 120 days until the municipal election, meaning Council must fill the seat – a look at the rules and why Russ Powers is a likely choice.
TPR Contributor Rob Fiedler looks at how changes to the Planning Act and implementation of the LPAT influenced the major changes to the final Downtown Secondary Plan
The Hamilton Fire Department responded shortly after 3:45pm Saturday afternoon for a single vehicle fire on Hughson Street North. Our Joey Coleman happened to be at Dr. Disc for Record Store Day when the fire began and captured these photos.
Rob Fiedler looks at the Downtown Secondary Plans policies for complete communities, the challenge implementing, and why multi-unit family housing is important to the future of urban cores.
Today, I joined the Hamilton and District Labour Council’s Stand Against Hate, this is what I observed in the march.
Though hardly fool-proof, the new Plan’s policies aim to encourage applications for tall buildings on larger sites, such as parking lots, that can readily accommodate them, without unduly impeding the reasonable development of other sites.
With a candidate who forces the NDP to watch their left flank, the Liberals are hoping to fight Horwath’s provincial popularity by making her spend time in Hamilton.
With the end of the OMB, and the beginning of LPAT, the final draft of Hamilton’s Downtown Secondary Plan to be released on March 19 could be very different from the October draft.
We need to be thinking ahead.
In 2015, I wrote an often cited column How to Define Hamilton’s Neighbourhood Boundaries and Localisms: East, West, North, South, Upper and Lower?,
Now, only three years later, the piece is outdated in some areas because of the substantial growth in grassroots engagement.
What has changed in the past three years?
City Council is suffering losses and setbacks at the Ontario Municipal Board as video of their statements is entered into evidence.