LJM Developments is back in town for another kick at the development can, this time proposing 16 & 22 Storey buildings east of their existing buildings along the North Service Road. Standing in their shadows, quite literally would be the existing townhouses between Winston and the North Service Road.
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If you didn’t catch the Public Notice in the local papers, you might have missed a notice from the Region regarding a Regional Official Plan Amendment (ROPA) application for the lands known as 502 Winston Road. The purpose of the application is to “refine the agricultural significance of the property from Unique Agricultural Area to Rural designation”. The lands are currently “Specialty Crop – Tender Fruit & Grape Lands” under the Greenbelt plan. But why re-designate you ask?
Continue readingAs the next step in the Grimsby Beach “Land Use Planning Study”, the Town will be hosting a “webinar” on October 26, 2021 at 6PM. Ahead of this webinar, the Town has posted documents including the consultant’s draft report recommending a “Secondary Plan” and not a “Heritage Conservation District”.
Continue readingThe Town will be hosting an (online) “open house” meeting for the Losani Homes proposal at 141-149 Main Street East, the current location of Cole’s Florist and Garden Centre.
An open house meeting is your first and important opportunity to “take a kick at the can” and let the applicant know what you think of the plan they have brought before the Town.
You can check out the relevant application documents at this link here:
https://www.letstalkgrimsby.ca/141-149-main-street-east
Don’t think it fits with the character of Main Street East? Don’t just sit there, register to participate in the Zoom meeting (via tablet, laptop or by telephone) and have your say.
Registrations for the meeting can be secured by emailing Nancy Simon by nsimon@grimsby.ca before noon on Friday March 26th. The meeting goes live on Monday March 29, 2021 @ 6PM.
If you want to spectate only, you can follow the meeting at the Town’s Vimeo page, or catch the simulcast via our Facebook page.
For a critical opinion on the proposed development, you can visit SaveMainStreet’s page at this link here: https://savemainstreet.ca/news/open-house-141-149-Main-St-East.html
The Committee of the Whole, and subsequently Council, will be taking another and perhaps final look at the Losani/Fifth Wheel re-development on Monday night. The agenda has some reports from the Town’s Planning Department and their outside consultant.
You can read the agenda at this link: http://bit.ly/TOGW20201109
Note: The agenda was published late Friday afternoon (3:45 PM), after the 12 Noon deadline for delegations. Anyone wishing to speak on this development is advised to immediately contact the Clerk’s office for their request.
Tune in on Monday @ 6:30 PM via Facebook Live or at the Town’s livestream of the meeting at: https://vimeo.com/grimsbycouncilchambers
The proposed development by Losani Homes at the former Fifth Wheel lands will go before a statutory public meeting on January 28, 2020 at 6PM @ Town Hall.
Continue readingOur friends over at SaveMainStreet.ca have already covered this application, but it is worth reposting here for those who might have missed the proposed development at 133 Main Street East AKA “Burgess Estates”.
Continue readingMore than a year after the then Planning & Development Committee Chairman Nick DiFlavio told the Casablanca Inn Winery developers “Please don’t come back here with the exact same plan”, it looks like they are ready to take another kick at the can.
Continue readingWell, we would normally have notes from Council but we think NewsNow sums up what happened with the Century Condo project past Monday evening pretty well. We have added in some prefacing commentary as well…
While much of the talk of “development” in Grimsby has been focused on the West End, the East End of town has been receiving attention on a quieter note in the form of the “Hospital Corridor” Secondary Plan.