Tag: City hall
City council news: FlixBus extension, Kiwanis gala, windrows, more
City council is offering FlixBus, which provides bus service to Toronto with stops in between, a one-year extension to continue using the Owen Sound bus terminal. “Given the success and demand for this intercity route, staff support its continuation and recommend approving the first one-year extension,” a staff report to council at its Monday night […]
Is city hall’s push for infill development here to stay?
There’s an increasingly common housing trend in London: infill development. Much of the city’s new development is rising on existing lots, not undeveloped land. LFP’s Jack Moulton looks at why infill has taken off recently, and if may be here to stay. WHAT’S HAPPENING? Infill has become a focus of most meetings of council’s planning […]
If city council ends Watson Park camp, where will the homeless go?
London homeless helpers understand city council’s desire to dismantle an encampment after a fire and propane tank explosion – they just wonder where residents will go. This week, a council committee backed Ward 1 Coun. Hadleigh McAlister’s emergency motion to close the city-run service depot at the Watson Street Park encampment, and to have city […]
$1M program to fill empty London core-area stores, offices endorsed
Businesses in London’s downtown could soon get a decent cash infusion if they open up in one of many vacant commercial spaces.
Two years after arson, beloved London cafe’s rebuild speeds ahead
The reconstruction of a much-loved Old South coffee shop and bakery destroyed by fire two years ago has begun, with its owners eyeing a fall opening. The new Black Walnut Bakery and Cafe, at the corner of Wortley Road and Craig Street in London’s Wortley Village neighbourhood, is beginning to take shape as construction […]