Dear Friends and Residents, To ensure that you are informed on the decisions being considered at Toronto City Hall, I’ve prepared the following updates for you. Please feel welcome to send me your feedback as hearing from the residents of Ward 22 assists me in advocating on our community’s behalf at Council. [...]
Dear Residents, We have made a successful effort towards reforming Toronto’s planning process. This past week my colleagues on the Planning Growth management committee supported our request to ask Queen’s Park to free Toronto from the OMB. Please read details below. I’m also including a variety of updates and public meeting notices for your [...]
Dear Friends and Residents, After two long days of City Council debates, I wanted to provide an update on some of the issues that were approved at City Hall. I have also provided some infromation on upcoming events and a proposed “Ecopark” in our Ward. You can find more information on the following subjects below: [...]
ear friends and residents, Today is Election Day in Ontario. I encourage you to vote for the party you best believe, based on your own research, will support our city. Polls are open until 9:00 pm tonight – you can find your polling station here. I also want to update you on the Avenue Rd [...]
Dear Friends and Residents, This Monday, September 26th, city council will be considering the city manager’s recommendations arising from the Core Service Review. While I strongly agree with reviewing the services the City provides and how it provides them, I am concerned that this process was done hastily, without enough regard to context and [...]
Dear residents, As many of you may have heard, City Manager Joseph Penachetti announced details of his final report on the Core Service Review that will be considered at the Executive Committee on September 19th and will be debated at city council on September 26th. The report contains over $100 million in proposed [...]
From: Concerned Cottingham <concernedcottingham@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:05:17 -0400 Subject: **time sensitive** CONDO & Community Council meeting We have been working with Josh Matlow a great deal over the past week. Considering the inconvenient & nonspecific timing for the Community Council meeting tomorrow, we have good news. Tomorrow’s particular Council meeting is NOT critical for our [...]
I believe it is absolutely vital to create a mixed use, green and people-friendly waterfront for Toronto of which we can all be proud. While it is healthy to review plans, and consider new ideas, I would like council to build onto a decade of work, and millions of dollars invested by Waterfront Toronto rather [...]
The City of Toronto has dozens of by-laws and regulations governing how streets and sidewalks are used. These regulations are for the most part left over from the previous municipalities (East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, Toronto, York and Metropolitan Toronto) that were amalgamated to form the City of Toronto in 1998. The City [...]
Dear Friends and Residents, I believe one of City Hall's priorities should be taking prudent measures to tackle gridlock. Therefore, along with my motion to increase fines and enforcement during rush hour, I have written to the City's Public Works and Infrastructure Committee requesting them to instruct Transportation Services to report back on the possible [...]
