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This is a guest post written by Tim Park, the Director of Planning Services, for Paige’s Community Connections Blog. Earlier this year, I was approached by the organizers of Kingston’s Jane’s Walk and asked if I would be willing to lead a walk.  Now you may be asking, what’s a Jane’s Walk? Jane’s Walks are done in recognition of Jane Jacobs who was an American-born writer and...
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We are in a time of great change as we tackle the ongoing local, provincial and national housing crisis. The foundation of the crisis is the unaffordability of housing, where we don’t have enough housing to meet the growing demand and where the cost of buying or renting housing has increased beyond what is considered affordable for many Canadians. Many factors have contributed to this crisis...
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Twenty four years after the amalgamation of the City of Kingston, we finally have one zoning by-law in effect to regulate land uses and development across (almost) the entire City! (The almost in this case refers to a limited number of properties that have old permissions under the former zoning by-laws).  While Council approved the new Kingston Zoning By-law Number 2022-62 (ZBL 22-62) at...
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After six and a half years of planning applications and appeal processes, we have finality on the two towers proposed by Homestead in the North Block along Queen Street – they are approved with no further appeal processes standing in the way. The Divisional Court just released their final decision on an appeal request from the Frontenac Heritage Foundation – the Divisional Court decision...
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After six years of development, staff are excited to announce the final draft of the new Kingston Zoning Bylaw is ready and will enter its final approval phase later this month. This is a major milestone for the Department of Planning Services and the corporation as a whole. The new document modernizes and simplifies zoning rules across Kingston, resulting in a comprehensive, innovative policy...
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