There will be a Committee of Adjustment meeting at 7PM on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 @ Town Hall.
Agenda: https://grimsby.civicweb.net/filepro/documents?expanded=542,1109,78898&preview=84206
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After the the very serious allegations of eavesdropping were leveled against one of Grimsby’s Aldermen (see the previous post at this link), it was only a matter of time before the “R-word” started making the rounds. While the R-word is not “responsibility” but rather “resignation”, the two seem to go hand-in-hand.
Further to our previous post “Grimsby Projects – What’s Going On?”, we received another e-mail as a follow-up from the same reader. The opinions expressed in that correspondence are very enlightening, so we thought we would share them with you.
The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is proposing to close Kilean Lodge and move our 50 long-term care beds to a new development in Hamilton. Do you want to see these beds stay in Grimsby?
We have been hearing it for months, even years that Grimsby will have GO Train service by 2021 and Niagara Falls will see daily service by 2023. Town Council and the Region have been blowing their (train) horn about this ad nauseum.
Following a complaint made last year to the Ombudsman of Ontario regarding two questionable “in camera” meetings held by Council regarding it’s interest in Niagara Power Inc., a final report has been released.
As we have previously posted, there will be no land removed from the Greenbelt in Grimsby as a result of the 2017 amendments to The Greenbelt Plan. That however has not deterred the Town’s hope of some “concessions” concerning land around the planned GO station.
The idea of the Livingston Avenue Extension that threatened the sanctity of Grimsby’s Irish Woodlot is one step closer to being relegated to the history books.
This past Wednesday, the Region’s Transportation Steering Committee unanimously passed a motion to “Remove any reference to the proposed extension of Livingston Ave from the Region’s Transportation Multi-Modal Master Plan.”
Queen’s Park is looking to pass major changes to the Ontario Municipal Board and have them in place by 2018. The Ontario government says these changes will be “giving communities a stronger voice and ensuring people have access to faster, fairer and more affordable hearings”. Hearings would be conducted by a new Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT).
Among some of the proposed amendments are:
We often receive commentary and information from concerned residents who share our vision for a Greater Grimsby. The following is a very thought-provoking opinion piece we recently received from a resident and with permission decided to share with our fellow citizens.