- 1. Affordable Housing and the Green Lane Secondary Plan
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- ... East Gwillimbury they are trying a different approach. Their draft Secondary Plan for Green Lane says: “A minimum of 35% of the units developed in the Green Lane and 2nd Concession Major Local Centre will ...
- Created on 26 February 2018
- 2. $250,000 earmarked for the Mulock GO Rail Station Secondary Plan
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- Tomorrow (5 February) Newmarket councillors will agree the process for engaging an outside consultant to craft a secondary plan for the area around the proposed new GO Rail station at Mulock Drive. The ...
- Created on 04 February 2018
- 3. New Secondary Plan means more people and more high density buildings on Mulock Drive
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- ... Express Rail. This means a new Secondary Plan for the Mulock area with work starting in 2017. I support the new GO Rail station at Mulock for a thousand reasons (which I needn’t go into here) but, ...
- Created on 06 October 2016
- 4. Newmarket’s Secondary Plan. Seven years from start to finish.
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- The appeal against Newmarket’s Urban Centres Secondary Plan (OPA10) will not be settled at the OMB until January 23, 2017 – almost seven years after the whole tortuous and flawed process began. Newmarket’s ...
- Created on 19 May 2016
- 5. Newmarket’s Secondary Plan rubber stamped by Region
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- After today’s formal blessing by the Region of York, Newmarket’s Urban Centres Secondary Plan becomes a revered document. The last minute additions and deletions will soon be forgotten and the clean ...
- Created on 05 March 2015
- 6. Smoke and mirrors and Newmarket’s Secondary Plan
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- Tomorrow is the big day when York Region gives its imprimatur to Newmarket’s Urban Centres Secondary Plan. Seems to me there is a lot of smoke and mirrors in the world of planning. Everything is not quite ...
- Created on 04 March 2015
- 7. Newmarket’s unfinished Secondary Plan set to get Regional approval
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- Newmarket’s Urban Centres Secondary Plan goes up for approval by York Region’s Committee of the Whole on Thursday morning (5 March) following the conclusion of a special Council meeting on the “York Region ...
- Created on 02 March 2015
- 8. Taylor sidelined by Town staff over Secondary Plan strategy
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- In one of their last meetings before Christmas, Newmarket councillors agreed the final modifications to the Urban Centres Secondary Plan that now goes up to York Region by the end of March to get its ...
- Created on 19 January 2015
- 9. Newmarket’s Secondary Plan: Fantasy Figures and Hokey-Pokey
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- The story so far On 21 July 2014 Newmarket’s top planners sent a memo to the Mayor and Councillors addressing two key issues that many people found perplexing when the Secondary Plan was adopted by the ...
- Created on 25 July 2014
- 10. Newmarket’s Secondary Plan is still unfinished business
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- Summary: Councillors at the upcoming Committee of the Whole on 21 July 2014 should get a written report on how last minute changes to the Secondary Plan, increasing density in a large number of development ...
- Created on 12 July 2014
- 11. Newmarket’s Secondary Plan: done and dusted (well, almost)
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- I’ve heard Regional Councillor John Taylor talk about the Secondary Plan on so many occasions, I think I could probably write the script. With my eyes closed. He tells councillors on Monday (23 June) ...
- Created on 27 June 2014
- 12. Secondary Plan gets the green light
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- Last night Newmarket councillors waved through the Town’s controversial Secondary Plan that lays the ground for accommodating an additional 33, 000 people along the Yonge Davis corridors. The Plan now ...
- Created on 17 June 2014
- 13. Newmarket’s Secondary Plan: the end is nigh
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- Key sections of Newmarket’s Secondary Plan, the blueprint that will guide development on the Yonge/Davis corridors for the next few decades, have been re-written at the 11th hour by unelected Regional ...
- Created on 10 June 2014
- 14. Newmarket’s Revised Draft Secondary Plan gets lukewarm reception
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- Newmarket’s Secondary Plan has been gestating for years and now we are assembling to see what is going to emerge. On Monday evening (28 April) the Council Chamber is packed for a “special public meeting” ...
- Created on 30 April 2014
- 15. Revised Secondary Plan goes out to public consultation
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- Councillors at Newmarket’s Committee of the Whole last night agreed to go out to public consultation on the revised draft of the long gestating Secondary Plan. An amendment proposed by Regional Councillor ...
- Created on 18 March 2014
- 16. Newmarket’s Secondary Plan: The Last Chance to Change Course
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- Next month, Newmarket councillors will consider the draft Secondary Plan which guides future development in the Town’s Urban Centres – broadly speaking the Yonge/Davis corridors. But before rubber-stamping ...
- Created on 05 December 2013
- 17. Newmarket's Secondary Pla
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- The draft of Newmarket’s Secondary Plan, which guides future development in the Yonge Davis corridor, is up for discussion next Monday, 28 October at a special Statutory Meeting to be held at 7pm ...
- Created on 24 October 2013
- 18. Secondary Plan Update
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- On Monday (19 March) consultants working on the Secondary Plan gave a presentation to councillors, painting a picture of what high growth and low growth would mean for Newmarket. In this context “growth” ...
- Created on 22 March 2012
- 19. Help shape the Secondary Plan: deadline 27 February 2012
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- The Town is now working on its Secondary Plan which will set new (and higher) densities and heights for developments along the Yonge Davis corridors. Information on how people can participate is buried ...
- Created on 20 February 2012
- 20. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: servicing the Bathurst lands
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- ... access to the full range of municipal services, need to be re-assessed to determine their potential for development. GEI has outlined a high-level overview strategy using a secondary source screening methodology ...
- Created on 31 October 2023
- 21. York Region has enough housing approved or in the pipeline to meet Ford's targets without building on the Greenbelt
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- ... at a time when homeownership has been priced out of the reach of many people. The Housing Needs Analysis for York Region makes bleak reading. Renters are relying increasingly on the so-called secondary ...
- Created on 02 September 2023
- 22. A second Southlake in King? We need to hear from Stephen Naylor
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- ... to the adopted King OP are proposed in Attachment 1 to provide clarity and further address conformity with the ORMCP related to secondary residential units, site alteration and tree by-laws, vegetation ...
- Created on 26 April 2023
- 23. Incompatible neighbours: Putting Right what the Town got Wrong
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- ... issue is secondary. It is the height and mass of the new building dominating Eden Court that concerns people. Clearly, we need the Town's definition of a mansard roof. Or are we expected to know one ...
- Created on 26 November 2022
- 24. CALL DOUG FORD: 416-325-1941
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- ... Secondary School Teachers' Federation, the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association and l'association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens. I call as requested and get through ...
- Created on 05 November 2022
- 25. Dawn Gallagher Murphy pulls out of a second Chamber of Commerce debate
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- ... of individual candidates in the ridings is of secondary importance. Parroting her Patron Even someone like Dawn Gallagher Murphy will likely be elected to our Provincial Legislature although she just ...
- Created on 12 May 2022
- 26. How the Glenway Developer, Marianneville, got a Tax Receipt for $14,290,000 for land it didn’t want
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- ... search the Title on the Land Registry. Instead, they relied on secondary sources. They say: “A review of these sources has indicated that the Parent Property was purchased by Marianneville Developments ...
- Created on 18 March 2022
- 27. Frank Talking about Taxing Empty Properties
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- ... does it really have a substantive impact on getting what we need? And that is more rental units within the region; purposely built secondary suites where they are planned into a community. And I think ...
- Created on 17 October 2021
- 28. What does it take to get a reply from Metrolinx?
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- It is now over seven months since East Gwillimbury Council asked Metrolinx to consider extending the planned all-day two-way 15 minute train service north from Aurora to the GO Rail station at Green Lane ...
- Created on 02 May 2021
- 29. Bradford Bypass gets favoured treatment
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- ... minute train service then so do we. And Newmarket Council is currently putting together its Secondary Plan for the proposed new GO Rail Station at Mulock Drive. Any changes to the train frequencies ...
- Created on 21 March 2021
- 30. Still no answers from Metrolinx as public consultation on the Barrie Rail Corridor winds down
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- ... at Davis Drive) Here in Newmarket we can expect to see the latest refined version of the Mulock Secondary Plan in the Spring setting out the Town’s vision for developing the land around the proposed ...
- Created on 25 January 2021
- 31. Tony Van Bynen MP: the first year
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- ... development, the crisis in long-term care and all those other big issues identified by all the opposition parties are secondary and have to go to the back of the queue for discussion and debate in the ...
- Created on 25 October 2020
- 32. Does Newmarket get value for money from the consultants it hires?
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- ... skills aren’t available. The Planning Department, for example, is spending over $200,000 on consultants to work on the Mulock Secondary Plan. The planners say they don’t have the “bandwidth” to do this ...
- Created on 24 January 2020
- 33. The Record Incompetence of the York Catholic District School Board
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- ... I found this extraordinary. It begged the question of how the Board which is responsible for 85 elementary schools and 16 secondary schools, employing more than 5,000 teachers serving 54,000 students, ...
- Created on 03 January 2020
- 34. The case for prosecuting the developer Bob Forrest
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- ... accurate visual of what is being proposed. As you know, a building can take many different forms (height and coverage) while still meeting a particular FSI. Q3. The Town's own Secondary Plan stipulates: ...
- Created on 25 November 2019
- 35. Construction Vibration shakes confidence in York Catholic District School Board
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- ... of how the Board - which is responsible for 85 elementary schools and 16 secondary schools employing more than 5,000 teachers serving 54,000 students – currently manages its records. I wanted to see ...
- Created on 23 October 2019
- 36. All Shook Up! Property Damage caused by Construction Vibration
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- ... responsible for 85 elementary and 16 secondary schools across the nine municipalities that make up York Region. It employs 5,000 teachers who educate over 54,000 children and young people. It beggars belief ...
- Created on 28 August 2019
- 37. Vegh now says there may never be a new library at Hollingsworth
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- ... am in favour of Scenario 2 now because I think it is needed and it is a real opportunity and it is consistent with our Secondary Plan.” Six days later on Monday 27 May 2019 Vegh says: “I am going to ...
- Created on 30 May 2019
- 38. Tom Vegh flip-flops on key election promise
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- ... quite a process to get there. We are viewing this through the lens of that Secondary Plan. So we are not going to talk too much about that. I think Scenario 2 is a real opportunity and that’s what I support. ...
- Created on 26 May 2019
- 39. Who is responsible for Property Damage caused by massive Vibration from Construction work?
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- ... staff who are responsible for 54,000 students. There are 87 elementary schools and 16 secondary schools so, in any given year, construction activity of some sort is likely to be undertaken. The Director ...
- Created on 12 March 2019
- 40. Tom Vegh: delivering his promise to the voters
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- ... are an emerging trend. And this development could involve Town-owned land. He acknowledges the proposed development sits in an area covered by a Secondary Plan but is nevertheless concerned about the proprieties ...
- Created on 10 February 2019
- 41. Big question mark hangs over Mulock GO Rail Station
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- ... the implications for Newmarket (and Aurora) will be huge. There is, of course, the unconscionable waste of money. The Town has been forced to spend $250,000 on a new Secondary Plan for the Mulock area ...
- Created on 05 February 2019
- 42. John Taylor and Markham's Frank Scarpitti clash over new GO Rail stations ...
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- ... unclear. But it has “put the two new stations (on the Barrie line) into a big question mark.” This is serious stuff for Newmarket. The Town has already committed $250,000 on developing a new secondary ...
- Created on 09 January 2019
- 43. The Clock Tower Settlement: What aren’t we being told?
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- ... at 184, 188 and 194 Main Street South are secondary elevations that appear to have been modified over time...these elevations do not have cultural heritage value…” There was of course no public consultation ...
- Created on 21 December 2018
- 44. Town to hire outside consultants to tell newly elected councillors what their “strategic priorities” are
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- Weeks before the election the Town of Newmarket is seeking the help of outside consultants to help set “strategic priorities” for the new Council term. You really couldn’t make it up. The Town’s ...
- Created on 11 October 2018
- 45. Newmarket Mayoral hopeful Joe Wamback sets out his stall
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- ... if and when the land around the station is redeveloped. Joe skilfully refers to the number of families likely to be affected and condemns the $250,000 the Town is spending on its Mulock Secondary Plan. ...
- Created on 20 September 2018
- 46. My Day in Court with Mr Justice Belobaba and why Doug Ford wants to cut Toronto City Council down to size
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- ... if unwritten constitutional principles can set aside primary law – an Act of Parliament, not simply secondary legislation and regulations made by Ministers. The Judge is clearly concerned about the judiciary ...
- Created on 09 September 2018
- 47. Metrolinx and Doug Ford: will the proposed GO Rail Station at Mulock Drive survive? And what to do about level crossings
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- ... circling. Town spends $250,000 on Plan to support the case for a new Station Meanwhile the issue hasn’t gone away. The Town has committed $250,000 to develop a Secondary Plan for the Mulock Station ...
- Created on 16 August 2018
- 48. Newmarket’s Director of Planning, Rick Nethery, breaks silence on how he was "misled" by Clock Tower developer Bob Forres
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- ... of some kind of misunderstanding by Forrest’s planning consultants of what was required by the Town’s Zoning By-law and what was said about parking in the Town’s Secondary Plan. My appeal against Mr ...
- Created on 27 May 2018
- 49. Deerfield Road and affordable housing in Newmarket
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- ... I hope so. In 2016 the rental affordability figure for York Region stood at $1,496 per month. Caption: Newmarket's Secondary Plan area Affordability target The Town's Secondary Plan reflects ...
- Created on 16 April 2018
- 50. Mulock GO Rail Station and Parking
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- ... the Town. Adrian Cammaert, memory back and sharp as a blade, says everything’s covered. Traffic studies are part of the new Secondary Plan for Mulock Drive. Nothing to worry about then. gordon.prentice@shrinkslessorsquare ...
- Created on 09 April 2018