Tag: london city hall
Consultant to answer taxing question: How many vacant homes are in London?
Exactly how many homes in London are sitting empty? City council wants to find out. It’s a tentative first step toward tackling the vacancy problems – possibly with a tax to encourage owners to sell or rent their properties – in London. All but four members of council voted in favour of more study to […]
Owner who demolished heritage barn fined. But what about the rubble?
The owner of a historic barn demolished under the cover of darkness two years ago has pleaded guilty to a charge under the Ontario Heritage Act, sticking him with a $2,000 fine.
City hall blasted for secrecy over probe into near-deadly student house fire
Tenants’ rights groups in London are blasting city hall for saying it won’t make public the results of an investigation into a near-deadly fire at a crowded student bungalow in the city’s northeast.
London city council briefs: Anti-Islamophobia plan, business pilot
News and notes from Tuesday night’s meeting at city hall: Plan to ‘disrupt Islamophobia’ endorsed A sweeping strategy to “disrupt Islamophobia” in London was endorsed unanimously on Tuesday night, prompting powerful comments from several city politicians. “I was born here . . . Still being treated as ‘other’ is just the weirdest thing,” Ward 6 […]
London’s proposed climate action plan exposes divide among councillors
An ambitious but necessary roadmap to take action on climate change, or an “aspirational” document that won’t be accepted by Londoners? City politicians are divided. A plan to back up London’s climate emergency declaration, nearly three years after it was proclaimed by city council, finally was debated by politicians Tuesday night. It exposed a gulf […]