Tag: council
City seeking comment on community garden policies
After council turned down a community garden in a small city park near Hillcrest Elementary School due to community concerns in July 2021, council resolved to update city policy on these gardens. City staff have come up with a draft update, which eliminates the park in question, Stobbe Park, on 5th Avenue A West, a […]
Glassworks housing proponents respond to city council concerns
A proponent of a different kind of affordable housing project, on industrial or “employment” land which needs city permission to rezone, asked city council for help to “surmount the red tape.” Kelsey Carrierre, president of Glassworks Cooperative, filled in councillors on the group’s development concept. She appeared Monday, at the last meeting of the current […]
Homeless situation in Grey County has become ‘more dire’
The majority of people identified as homeless in Grey County are local, contrary to some misconceptions, the county’s community services director said Thursday. Anne Marie Shaw confirmed the origin of homeless people in the county in an answer to a question from Owen Sound Deputy Mayor Brian O’Leary at county council Thursday. O’Leary wondered if […]
Arran-Elderslie’s newest council member thinks people ready for growth
Arran-Elderslie Mayor Steve Hammell was acclaimed on a council which saw its long-time deputy mayor replaced with a newcomer and one councillor replaced with a former holder of that office. Jennifer Christie handily defeated Mark Davis to become Arran-Elderslie’s incoming deputy mayor in Monday’s election. Christie’s received 1,704 votes to Davis’s 722. That’s 70.2 per […]
City council roundup: subdivision extension, fees rising, jail sold
Owen Sound council granted a developer’s request for a three-year extension to its draft plan approval for the first phase of the Redhawk subdivision across from the hospital. The Redhawk subdivision is to be built on the south side of 8th Street East, between 16th Avenue East and the future 20th Avenue East extension. The […]