The federal government recently announced that they would be removing GST on purpose built rentals to help address the housing crisis. Almost immediately some folks started questioning how giving ‘rich’ developers a break on GST would help the housing crisis and instead of seeing the news...
There is regular call by some of my colleagues to "find significant savings" in our city budget. This sounds great and honestly most of us are constantly looking for ways to save money and decrease our budgets. It is something we all must do. My issue...
Last night at Council (August 14), we hopefully had our final motions about the 2023 property taxes and now we'll be able to focus on the new multi-year budget for 2024 to 2026. I've already talked about the budget and the decisions made - you can...
I'm sure many of you have read in the St. Catharines Standard or listened to 610 CKTB, that on Monday, July 24, there is a motion being brought forward to reconsider the 2023 City of St. Catharines budget...
Very excited that City of St. Catharines, Niagara Region, and Niagara Regional Housing (NRH) announced the development plans at 320 Geneva St.. The plans include building more than 80 units of supportive and affordable housing over three phases. In my opinion, this is a great example of two levels...
On Monday night (May 15th), Council approved two CIP (Community Improvement Plan) incentive applications for one for 88 James St. and one for 10 Pleasant Ave. 88 James St. recieved a TIF (Tax Increment Finance Program) incentive of a 45% annual tax rebate over a 10-year...
Parking and parking spaces are almost always a hot topic. Or should I say contraversial one. Whether you're talking about having to pay for parking or how many parking spaces a new development (small, medium or large) has - it tends to bring out extreme passion...
This past Monday (April 3), Council considered a planning application that was requesting the expansion of a building (adding 2,397 sq.m (25,801 sq.ft.) to an existing 1,216 sq.m. (13,088 sq. ft.)) including increasing the parking lot from 95 to 229 parking spaces. The property and...
As you know, climate change has been identified as the number 1 crisis facing humanity, and in April of 2019 the City of St. Catharines declared a Climate Emergency. What place does that hold on your priority list, and what measures do you plan to...
We can all agree that St. Catharines needs more housing units. Where we tend to get a bit stuck is how we are going to get there. We cannot sprawl out. We have to be creative and we most importantly have to attract developers who will...
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