News From City Hall: November 2017
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- Sep 7, 2017
City Consultation on Short Term Rental Policy
Municipal Licensing and Standards and City Planning staff are holding a series of open houses on the newly proposed regulations for short...
- Sep 5, 2017
Re-imagining Yonge Street (UPDATED) – Open House October 10
Update (September 5, 2017) Re-Imagining Yonge, the City’s plan to reconstruct the badly aging stretch of Yonge Street between Sheppard...
- Jun 15, 2017
From City Hall: Stormwater Management Fees
Many Willowdale residents who attended public consultation meetings this spring were concerned with a City proposal to...
- Jan 5, 2017
North York Budget Consultations – January 9
The City’s tax-supported budget process launched on December 6, 2016 and will go to council on February 15 and 16. Toronto’s...
- Dec 2, 2016
City Finances & “Revenue Tools” – Consultation December 7.
The City of Toronto needs to take a hard look at how it collects revenue, both to maintain and improve services and to finance major...
- Nov 12, 2016
From City Hall: New Ward Boundaries Approved
With the population of Ward 23 now over 100,000 – literally more than double other wards in Toronto – and development rates among the...
- Nov 10, 2016
City Takes Next Steps on SmartTrack & Transit
City Council adopted a package of recommendations this month to move forward with SmartTrack and Eglinton West LRT. SmartTrack is the...
- Jul 17, 2016
From City Hall: Council Approves Scarborough Subway (UPDATED)
Update (July 2016) Again this month, John voted with the minority of Councillors that preferred an LRT option in Scarborough as a...
- Jun 10, 2016
Property Assessments & Property Tax
As the provincial organization MPAC sends out property value assessment notices in June, Willowdale residents are again reminded about...
- Jun 5, 2016
From City Hall: Ward Redistribution on Hold
The population in our Ward 23 is now at about 100,000 – more than twice the size of some of the city’s 44 wards. In addition to having...
- Feb 16, 2016
From City Hall: Shifting Plans on Transit (and Open Houses)
The City has once again announced a shuffling of the deck on high speed transit proposing amendments to several projects previously...
- Jun 12, 2015
From City Hall: Future of the East Gardiner (UPDATED)
Updated (June 2015) On June 10 & 11, City Council approved the rebuilding of the East Gardiner Expressway – the “hybrid solution” – by a...
- Feb 12, 2015
From City Hall: SmartTrack Moving Forward with Study Approval at Council
It was a centrepiece of Mayor Tory’s election campaign and with Council’s approval in February, a work plan will get underway formally...
- Jul 10, 2014
From City Hall: Local Appeals Body
City Council has approved my motion to establish a Local Appeals Body to hear all appeals of Committee of Adjustment decisions....
- Apr 8, 2014
From City Hall: City Action on Pipeline Safety (UPDATED)
UPDATE (April 2014) As Enbridge’s Line 9 oil pipeline is running through Ward 23’s hydro corridor, the recent decision of the National...
- Apr 7, 2014
From City Hall: Jets at Billy Bishop? (UPDATED)
UPDATE (April 2014) Over the past year, this issue has generated more calls and emails to my office than any other. Opinion is strongly...
- May 22, 2013
From City Hall: Casino Debate (UPDATED)
UPDATED (May 2013): The many hundreds of e-mails I received, along with the numerous individual conversations and discussions at...
- May 12, 2013
From City Hall: Transit Funding Update
Last week’s debate on transit funding was certainly not Council’s finest hour. The good news is that Council is strongly behind an array...