Dec 13, 2017News From City Hall: November 2017Responsive Traffic Signal Technology City of Toronto has launched a year-long pilot to test two new smart traffic signal systems to...
Sep 7, 2017City Consultation on Short Term Rental PolicyMunicipal Licensing and Standards and City Planning staff are holding a series of open houses on the newly proposed regulations for short...
Sep 5, 2017Re-imagining Yonge Street (UPDATED) – Open House October 10Update (September 5, 2017) Re-Imagining Yonge, the City’s plan to reconstruct the badly aging stretch of Yonge Street between Sheppard...
Jun 15, 2017From City Hall: Stormwater Management FeesMany Willowdale residents who attended public consultation meetings this spring were concerned with a City proposal to...
Jan 5, 2017North York Budget Consultations – January 9The 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, 2016City 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, 2016From City Hall: New Ward Boundaries ApprovedWith the population of Ward 23 now over 100,000 – literally more than double other wards in Toronto – and development rates among the...
Nov 10, 2016City Takes Next Steps on SmartTrack & TransitCity Council adopted a package of recommendations this month to move forward with SmartTrack and Eglinton West LRT. SmartTrack is the...
Jul 17, 2016From 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, 2016Property Assessments & Property TaxAs the provincial organization MPAC sends out property value assessment notices in June, Willowdale residents are again reminded about...
Jun 5, 2016From City Hall: Ward Redistribution on HoldThe 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, 2016From 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, 2015From 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, 2015From City Hall: SmartTrack Moving Forward with Study Approval at CouncilIt 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, 2014From City Hall: Local Appeals BodyCity Council has approved my motion to establish a Local Appeals Body to hear all appeals of Committee of Adjustment decisions....
Apr 8, 2014From 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, 2014From 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, 2013From 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, 2013From City Hall: Transit Funding UpdateLast week’s debate on transit funding was certainly not Council’s finest hour. The good news is that Council is strongly behind an array...