If you thought the dire and questionable state of Niagara Regional Council couldn’t get any worse, well we have a surprise for you!
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For the residents of Grimsby, they wanted to make sure the developer of Century Condos downtown heard their messages “loud and clear” on the proposed development. From what News Now is reporting, it seems at least on the issue of height and heritage, the developer is going back to the drawing board for 4-storeys.
Thanks to all those who participated in our Easter Gift Certificate Giveaway! We had many entries with great comments and suggestions.
The winner of the $20 Elm Street Cafe is Ann D. We will be contacting the winner shortly to arrange the awarding of the prize.
Hope everyone had a safe and happy long weekend!
Photo Credit: Town of Grimsby
There will be an “open house” on Wednesday, April 4th at Town Hall for public comments, questions or concerns with the proposed Rec Master Plan.
The meeting will be held at Town Hall, 160 Livingston Avenue from 6:30PM – 8:30PM.
While everyone has been enjoying the long weekend, we have been busy putting together our notes from the March 27, 2018 Planning & Development meeting. With so many speakers for the Century Condos “open house”, needless to say we had a great deal of paper to go over.
The Town has posted the above public notice here on the cancellation of the planned second “open house” on the Century Condo proposal downtown.
The notice states that the “proposed design will be changed significantly“, so there will be another Open House on the revised design at a future date.
Credit goes out to all residents who spoke, written and attended the meetings so far, the Planning & Development Committee, Town Staff and credit to the developer for listening to the community.
Let’s hope that the new design keeps with the Official Plan maximum height of four-storeys, brings a heritage look and keeps the whole community happy.
We appreciate you!
This Easter weekend we are thankful for all Facebook followers, website readers and the caring community we live in. And to say thanks, we will be giving away a $20 Elm Street Café gift certificate to one lucky follower/reader.
Spring is certainly upon us and with that is a new set of Town meetings for April. You can see the upcoming meetings in our sidebar or click the graphic to be taken to our calendar.
Please note that although April 2 (Easter Monday) is typically a government holiday, Council will be seated on that day as per it’s regular schedule.
Also of special note is the April 10th, 2018 Planning & Development meeting. For those who were unable to get into Town Hall and speak at the Century Condos “Open House” on March 27th, the Town has tentatively scheduled this date to give those people an opportunity to speak (we will post more details once they have been confirmed).
Photo Credit: Niagara This Week/Richard Hutton
Richard Hutton of Niagara This Week just posted his article on last night’s Open House on “Century Condos”. If you could not make it, it is worth the read to get a feel for the “room” that was Council Chambers on Tuesday evening.
We will have our own notes up of the meeting shortly.
You can read the NTW article at the following link: https://www.niagarathisweek.com/news-story/8356851–no-more-than-four-/
While we are compiling notes, we just wanted to say what a great turnout there was at Town Hall on Tuesday Night. So much that the Fire Department had to enforce the 185 people maximum in the building and turn people away.
For those who were unable to get in, from our understanding (subject to change) the Town took their names and they will have an opportunity at the April 10, 2018 P&D meeting to have their say to Town Staff and the Committee.
For those who did get in and especially for those who spoke, it was clear that the Committee, Town Staff and the Developer heard the message of “No More Than Four”. Some Committee members even went so far to remark “Three is even better”.
You can still send an e-mail/letter off to Council ahead of the Council meeting on Monday,
Thanks to everyone for joining the cause and their continuing support to preserve our Downtown!