Tag: Anna Hopkins
City council votes 12-3 to back spending $16.9M in extra cash on tax relief
“At the end of the day, this surplus belongs to all the taxpayers of London”
Councillors reject push to rename Plantation Road: ‘Manufactured controversy’
London politicians have killed a six-year effort to rename a west London street with slave-era connotations after soundly rejecting a double-pronged attempt to restart the process. During Tuesday’s city council meeting, politicians voted 9-6 both against renaming Plantation Road to Larch Road, and conducting more public engagement to consider a renaming. “The history of the […]
Politicians vote to pull slain soldier’s name from London street
Two multi-year efforts to rename two London streets finally may be reaching the end of the road, but with different fates. Wednesday, city politicians dropped the renaming of Plantation Road in London’s Oakridge neighbourhood, an effort under way for six years, while endorsing the immediate renaming of the east-end Trooper Wilson Place in a 4-1 […]
Mayor, councillors pivot on using budget surplus for tax relief: ‘180-degree flip’
Just one year after city politicians forcefully shut down a similar idea, some have changed their tune on using surplus money to reduce tax increases, including during the last year of their term. Wednesday, council’s infrastructure and corporate services committee endorsed splitting $16.9 million of city hall’s nearly $60-million surplus to lower property tax hikes […]
City council ignores its own height limits, OKs 8-storey apartment building
City council has rejected staff’s recommendation to quash a proposed northwest London apartment building, approving the project with fewer floors than first proposed and arguing the need for housing outweighs concerns over height and parking. Politicians voted 13-2 to approve an eight-storey apartment building, down from the proposed 10 storeys, at 801 Sarnia Rd., immediately to […]