Tag: Anna Hopkins
Stacked townhouses, higher buildings in, single-family homes out: Mayor
London’s skyline could see dramatic changes both in the city’s busiest districts and its neighbourhoods as city councillors approved sweeping changes to the city’s master planning document. The 13-1 vote at Tuesday’s city council meeting opens the door to 45-storey apartment towers downtown and four-storey stacked townhouses on neighbourhood “connector” streets, a designation the city […]
London ‘renoviction’ bylaw approved but tenants unhappy: ‘Next to nothing’
London is set to become the second city in Ontario with a bylaw to protect tenants from bad faith “renovictions” â but it falls far short of what a tenants’ group demanded and won’t be in place for half a year. “I absolutely despise that I need to use this line, but the reality is […]
‘Manipulation’: Ex-police board chair blasts spending $104K on PR firm
The London police boardâs decision to hire a public-relations firm to help promote its largest-ever budget is âunprecedentedâ and action should be taken so it doesnât happen again, says a former head of the board.