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Join us for a neighbourhood walk in Central Kingston

Jun 06, 2018
By  Paige Agnew
Tell us how you live, see and experience neighbourhoods within the Central Kingston Growth Strategy study areas - join City staff and the project team for neighbourhood walks! The purpose of the neighbourhood walks is for residents to identify the existing character of the various neighbourhoods within the Central Kingston Growth Strategy study area. Neighbourhood character is a land use...
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Introducing the Development Charges Rebate Program

May 29, 2018
By  Paige Agnew
Kingston has the lowest vacancy rate in Ontario making it difficult to secure affordable rental housing. This is something the City is actively working to address and I am pleased to share that the City was selected to participate in the Ontario Ministry of Housing’s Development Charges Rebate Program. The introduction of the Development Charges Rebate program will provide rebates on...
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Queen's Hosting Open House for 355 King Street West

May 16, 2018
By  Paige Agnew
Last year Queen’s University purchased property, previously a Providence Care facility, located at 355 King Street West. This site was acquired with the intention of relocating academic and administrative units there over the long term. A rezoning of the property is required to permit these uses on site and will be subject to a public planning act process for those applications, which will...
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First Appeal Under the New LPAT

May 10, 2018
By  Paige Agnew
The City of Kingston has received its first land use planning appeal under the new Local Planning Appeals Tribunal (LPAT), enacted on April 3, 2018. I provided a previous blog post related to the changes brought in by Bill 139, click here to access that post. About the appeal The application for the re-zoning of 268 Victoria Street, which was refused by City Council, was appealed to the...
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North King’s Town land use planning

May 07, 2018
By  Paige Agnew
I spent part of the morning today out walking the North King’s Town (NKT) area with City staff Laura MacCormick, Sonya Bolton, Kim Brown and the consulting team from Dialog. Together we were undertaking a “ground truth’ exercise on the land use plan being developed. The goal of our walk and ‘ground truth’ exercise was to explore if the recommendations on paper make practical sense in the...
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Paige Agnew
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613-546-4291, ext. 3252

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