Tag: council
Too much, too fast? Divided city council approves 4,000-home plan
A highrise subdivision in southwest London will be going ahead after city council made a last-ditch effort to give the project a haircut
Owen Sound moves to finalize sale of road allowance to developer
Owen Sound council has moved ahead with the sale of part of the 21st Street East unopened road allowance to Barry’s Construction, which plans to build rental apartments there. At its meeting on Monday, Owen Sound council passed a bylaw to stop up and close and declare surplus the section of the 21st Street East […]
City council backs homebuyer loan program over affordable housing push
City council is going to bat for would-be homeowners, applauding a forgivable loan program for down payments and swiftly defeating a push to steer funding toward affordable housing. Politicians threw their support behind the revival of a Queen’s Park and Ottawa-funded, city-stewarded program that would provide some London renters a 20-year forgivable loan up to […]
Owen Sound to entertain offers for temporary use of Rice House
Organizations are being invited to submit expressions of interest in the city-owned residential property
Future affordable housing project in Owen Sound to honour Peter Lemon
Former Owen Sound Coun. Peter Lemon is to be honoured in a future affordable housing build in the city. On Monday, Owen Sound council made it a requirement of a city donation of land to the local non-profit housing authority that the building or complex constructed on the land be named after Lemon, who passed […]