Tag: London budget
‘State’ speech: Mayor Josh Morgan pledges restraint in term’s final city budget
Josh Morgan plans to use his relatively new “strong mayor” powers to rein in the property-tax hike Londoners will face in 2026, the final year of his term, he said in his State of the City address on Thursday.
Q+A: Mayor Josh Morgan looks ahead to London’s 2025 challenges
There has been no shortage of issues for Mayor Josh Morgan to tackle, from housing and homelessness, to an exploding population, and property tax hikes
Lowered London minimum ceiling height of six feet moves ahead
A city council committee has given its endorsement to reducing the minimum ceiling height in London to barely more than six feet to align with Ontario’s building code. Councillors voted 3-1 in favour of the tweak to London’s property standards bylaw, reducing the minimum headroom in a home by 10 centimetres to 1.85 metres, or […]
Space crunch: London eyes lowering minimum headroom in homes to six feet
Watch your head London, the city and the province aren’t looking to raise the roof.
London budget: The journey to a 7.3 % tax hike, and a dire warning for 2026
Its official, property taxes will be increasing in the new year by over seven per cent â marginally lower than what was forecast in late October to help fund London’s $1.4 billion spending plan.