- 1. Council to Vote on Building Height Restrictions
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- ... him, what does this mean? When will the examination of possible height restrictions take place? What are the implications for the Secondary Plan? And does his notice of motion capture applications, ...
- Created on 16 February 2012
- 2. Southlake struggling to find a new site for its acute hospital complex
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- ... “sites which fell under current conservation land statuses or within the Greenbelt or Oak Ridges Moraine areas were not considered as realistic opportunities based upon current development restrictions.” ...
- Created on 27 March 2024
- 3. The Greenbelt Scandal and Southlake’s search for a new acute hospital site
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- ... as realistic opportunities based on current development restrictions”. And this realisation came months before Ford formally abandoned his policy in September 2023 to allow development in the Greenbelt. ...
- Created on 24 February 2024
- 4. From this morning’s Globe & Mail: Ford government’s appointee to Greenbelt Foundation had family ties to developer Michael Rice
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- ... Mr. Ford’s governmentremoved from the Greenbelt last year, making the property no longer subject to the protected zone’s restrictions on building. She is the sister of Michael Rice (photo right), the ...
- Created on 08 September 2023
- 5. Greenbelt Scandal: Ryan Amato is a deceitful, manipulative, calculating liar but is he also a criminal?
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- ... needs to be included on meeting calendars. Restriction on the Use of Personal Email Accounts for Government Business Non-elected political public service staff receive reinforced communications ...
- Created on 03 September 2023
- 6. Noise Pollution. I’ve had enough.
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- ... populated city. “The Noise By Law balances the city’s vibrancy with the needs of residents and visitors and provides time restrictions and sound level limits for various types of noise.” They want ...
- Created on 29 August 2023
- 7. Selling the Greenbelt: Ryan Amato was the mastermind. Ford and Clark were kept in the dark
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- ... environmental criterion that criterion was dropped. In another example when the confidentiality restrictions imposed on the Greenbelt project team made it impossible for the team to assess how quickly ...
- Created on 09 August 2023
- 8. A second Southlake in King? We need to hear from Stephen Naylor
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- ... Core Area; 2) Natural Linkage Area; 3) Countryside Area; and, 4) Settlement Areas, and their associated policies. The ORMCP also sets out other restrictions and policies regarding environmental protection, ...
- Created on 26 April 2023
- 9. Do we need a new Library? Answer: Yes
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- ... would be nice to just have a space where people aren’t tripping over other people constantly.” “The current location has restrictions on the land so we would have to build up to expand, which isn’t ideal. ...
- Created on 06 October 2022
- 10. The Fire in Parliament in 1916 and my smoky piece of history
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- ... the son or sons have the right to vote as though their father were alive.” With all these restrictions it is a miracle that voter turnout in the 5th Federal Election was 70.3% Nowadays we don't have ...
- Created on 26 December 2021
- 11. The 2021 Federal Election Result in Newmarket-Aurora
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- ... lowest was 58.8% in October 2008. (The highest was 79.4% in March 1958) The savage reductions in the number of polling stations - caused by the Covid restrictions - will have played a part. How did ...
- Created on 21 September 2021
- 12. Children shot at party for one-year-old. So what?
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- ... been (a) fatally shot and (b) wounded in each of the last 10 years by someone using a handgun? In your fourth paragraph you talk about polarized views on further handgun restrictions and you say the ...
- Created on 20 June 2021
- 13. Newmarket Public Library: What Next?
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- ... to just have a space where people aren’t tripping over other people constantly.” “The current location has restrictions on the land so we would have to build up to expand, which isn’t ideal. Our two ...
- Created on 15 January 2021
- 14. Trudeau's Liberals will not ban handgun
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- ... Update on 17 November 2020: In the House of Commons on 16 November Liberal Minister skates over the issue of further restrictions on handguns. Cartoon from the Toronto Star. Update on 17 December ...
- Created on 13 September 2020
- 15. Cutting Nurses Pay – the Christine Elliott Way
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- ... on 13 January 2020 asking for an exemption from the wage restrictions and they were ignored. To this day the former "international leader in the financial services sector" hasn’t bothered to reply. Ford ...
- Created on 29 June 2020
- 16. Gun Massacres
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- ... absolute certainty that these horrific massacres will continue until we ban the possession of handguns and assault weapons and tighten restrictions on all other firearms. But what are the chances of ...
- Created on 20 April 2020
- 17. Conrad Black defends Trump's plan to block export of masks to Canad
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- ... over the next three months primarily from its manufacturing facility in China, starting in April. The Administration is committed to working to address and remove export and regulatory restrictions to ...
- Created on 10 April 2020
- 18. Morbid thoughts
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- ... like wishful thinking to me. In the UK people are preparing for the worst with the deputy chief medical adviser warning coronavirus restrictions could last six months. Stay at home - or else And ...
- Created on 30 March 2020
- 19. The case for prosecuting the developer Bob Forrest
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- ... to be re-initiated. 9. Verified only rezoning needed. Presently 2 storey height restriction- the OP speaks to heritage thus the heritage requirement. 10. Indicated Dave Ruggle would provide recommended ...
- Created on 25 November 2019
- 20. What Bill wants you to know about Lois
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- ... sales restrictions including mandatory tracking of ownership. The Long Gun Registry took over this tracking. Now you are supporting untracked distribution of these weapons of terrorism and war through ...
- Created on 03 October 2019
- 21. Yvonne Kelly and the NDP's New Dea
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- ... which cross provincial borders are a clear Federal responsibility. I suggest this is like Justin Trudeau refusing to take action on handguns, passing the buck to cities to impose their own restrictions. ...
- Created on 25 September 2019
- 22. Guns in Canada
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- ... are likely to be given the powers to impose additional restrictions on handguns in their own patch. Seriously? Is this it? Mass shootings now the new normal Mass shootings have now become normalised ...
- Created on 05 August 2019
- 23. Vegh now says there may never be a new library at Hollingsworth
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- ... to its facility restrictions. The library is in an older building, multiple storeys and it just packed with books and not enough space. The building is not well suited for the functions of a modern library.” ...
- Created on 30 May 2019
- 24. Will we ever get a new library?
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- ... It would be nice to just have a space where people aren’t tripping over other people constantly.” “The current location has restrictions on the land so we would have to build up to expand, which isn’t ...
- Created on 14 February 2019
- 25. Ford insists Toronto City Council will have 25 councillors and recalls legislature to pass Bill 5 again, invoking section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to overrule Court judgement
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- ... whether the objective the statutory restrictions seek to promote responds to pressing and substantial concerns in a democratic society, and then determine whether the means chosen by the government are ...
- Created on 10 September 2018
- 26. Ford pledges to exempt Royal Canadian Legion from Property Taxes (but Municipalities already have this power if they choose to exercise it)
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- ... s. 1 (1). Restriction (3) An exemption under subsection (2) must not exceed 10 years but may be renewed at any time during the last year of the exemption. 2006, c. 33, Sched. A, s. 7. Exception ...
- Created on 23 May 2018
- 27. New By-Law regulating Infill Development in Stable Residential Neighbourhoods could be in place by June 2018. Seriously?
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- ... need to plan for; the downtown heritage height restrictions and, so, you have a full plate ahead of you. So moving forward with this on this timeline I think is optimistic..." You can read an abbreviated ...
- Created on 17 October 2017
- 28. The Future of the Newmarket GO Rail Station at the Tannery on Davis Drive
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- ... to development in the vicinity of the station, including floodplain restrictions; and h) accessibility and bicycle parking considerations. iii. An amendment to this Plan may be necessary in order to ...
- Created on 27 September 2017
- 29. Now we know: Slessor Square was impossible to build
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- ... restriction in the Town of Newmarket of approximately 15 storeys." He cited places such as Halifax and Saskatoon, Paris and Washington as having height limits. I too was keen to see a height cap and ...
- Created on 24 September 2017
- 30. Newmarket's Mobility Hub Study ignores the big issue
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- ... to development in the vicinity of the station, including floodplain restrictions; and h) accessibility and bicycle parking considerations. iii. An amendment to this Plan may be necessary in order to ...
- Created on 20 June 2017
- 31. Let's knock down Main Street but keep the facades - that's good heritage planning. ...
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- ... proposed development, while not meeting the Heritage Conservation District Plan in terms of height restrictions, could be mitigated in order to allow the Town to meet a number of other planning goals in ...
- Created on 27 April 2017
- 32. The Clock Tower and Civic Vandalism
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- ... of height restrictions it could, nevertheless, be mitigated to allow the Town to meet other planning goals in the historic downtown core. The HIA was peer reviewed by ERA Architects. It is useless. Yet ...
- Created on 18 November 2016
- 33. Bob Forrest’s “Project Landscape”
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- ... of height restrictions, could be mitigated in order to allow the Town to meet a number of other planning goals in the Historic Downtown core.” The consultants say: “In this current development proposal ...
- Created on 02 October 2016
- 34. Tom Pearson’s views on the Clock Tower "utterly worthless
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- ... District Plan in terms of height restrictions. 220 inquiries Tom goes on to tell us that the development, if it ever gets built, will be a condo. Apparently there were “over 220 inquiries from a mix ...
- Created on 24 September 2016
- 35. Kerwin taunts Van Bynen: You are no leader
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- ... and also the height restriction. I couldn’t build beyond 35 ft when I built my house. Mayor Tony Van Bynen: I am just wondering at this point… The purpose of this meeting is to receive comments… Councillor ...
- Created on 01 June 2016
- 36. Clock Tower Peer Review is to be reviewed.
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- ... merits of retaining UC-D1 zoning even though the Heritage Impact Assessment explicitly acknowledges the proposed development would breach the height restriction in the Heritage Conservation District Plan. ...
- Created on 20 May 2016
- 37. The Pretence of Tony Van Bynen
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- ... Conservation District Plan in terms of height restrictions but “could be mitigated in order to allow the Town to meet a number of other planning goals in the Historic Downtown Core”. Forrest’s Heritage ...
- Created on 02 May 2016
- 38. Van Bynen v Prentice
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- ... I would like to clarify something though…it’s the heritage by-law restriction and you can appreciate the fact that at least since the mid-90s I have been very involved in moving forward the heritage conservation ...
- Created on 21 April 2016
- 39. Forrest Takes Us All for Fools as he Unveils Latest Plan for Condo in the Heart of the Historic Downtown
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- ... as best as possible.” (My underlining.) They conclude: “(Our analysis) concludes that the proposed development, while not meeting the Heritage Conservation District’s Plan in terms of height restrictions, ...
- Created on 11 February 2016
- 40. Newmarket loses out on transformational Regional Express Rail service
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- ... floodplain restrictions; and h) accessibility and bicycle parking considerations Note C: Timeline on all-day two-way on the Barrie corridor April 2014: As part of the Secondary Plan process, the Town ...
- Created on 06 December 2015
- 41. Traffic Infiltration into residential neighbourhoods
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- ... turning restrictions at key entry and exit points. New traffic signs would order no left turns into the residential area. Another group from a different part of the same neighbourhood argues this “solution” ...
- Created on 12 June 2015
- 42. Newmarket's Secondary Pla
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- ... height cap. But nothing happened. It was quietly buried. In June 2012 councillors agreed a staff recommendation leaving any possible new height restrictions to the Secondary Plan. Which is where we are ...
- Created on 24 October 2013
- 43. Key Height Cap Report due on 11 June
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- ... missing. Seems to me that Newmarket Council should grasp this nettle and give its view now on what kind of height restrictions would be appropriate. This would inform the work of the planners and everyone ...
- Created on 18 May 2012
- 44. Era Banner cuts criticism of its editorial line
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- ... compromise position that still allows intensification but preserves the quality of life the residents demand. No one wants out of control development with few restrictions. Developers come and go ...
- Created on 11 March 2012
- 45. Councillors can help shape public opinion
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- I read that John Taylor’s motion on height restrictions went through the Committee of the Whole at its meeting on 27 February. However, I note there was no reference to his proposed 15 storey height ...
- Created on 06 March 2012
- 46. Mayor slams Taylor’s 15 storey cap
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- ... height restrictions as it would indirectly provide direction to current proposals such as Slessor Square as to what the Council feels is appropriate. In his blog, the Mayor counters: I do not believe ...
- Created on 21 February 2012
- 47. The sky is not the limit
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- News that John Taylor, our Regional Councillor, wants to see a cap of 15 storeys on new development is a step in the right direction. As he writes in his blog Newmarket is a town. We are not aiming for ...
- Created on 15 February 2012