Paige's Community Connections Blog

Paige's Community Connections Blog

Nested Applications

Breadcrumb

Blogs (Paige's Planning Blog)

A Week of Celebrating and Honouring Kingston Heritage 

Feb 28, 2022
By  Paige Agnew
Over the next week across the City’s social media channels, we will be celebrating Kingston heritage in various forms such as cultural, natural, architectural, archeological and collections. Join the City as we commemorate and honour Kingston’s rich and diverse heritage during Ontario’s Heritage Week from February 21 to 27.  This week is an opportunity for us to reflect on how our...
More
00

Recent and potential upcoming changes to Planning legislation

Jan 31, 2022
By  Paige Agnew
Through Provincial Bill 13, the Supporting People and Businesses Act, 2021, the government of Ontario recently amended the Planning Act to give municipal councils flexibility to delegate certain planning decisions. Council can now choose to delegate the following planning decisions to a committee of Council or to staff: Temporary use bylaws (bylaws authorizing the temporary use of land or...
More
00

To Get Better Planning Decisions, We Need to Get the Facts Right

Nov 09, 2021
By  Paige Agnew
Last week, the City received some extremely important news from the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT), the Province’s appeal body for land use decisions. The OLT approved the official plan and rezoning bylaw amendments recommended by the City for the Homestead Land Holdings project at 182 Ontario Street, 18 Queen Street and 51-57 Queen Street downtown, commonly referred to as the North Block. This...
More
00

The Power of Parking and Kingston’s Future

Aug 27, 2021
By  Paige Agnew
Internationally recognized urbanist Brent Toderian has joined me as co-author of this blog post to highlight the critical and transformative work we have been collaborating on over the past year on the future of Kingston’s approach to managing parking. Brent Toderian is a city planning consultant with TODERIAN UrbanWORKS, an ongoing advisor to the City of Kingston on city planning and...
More
00

We want to hear from you on the proposal for "Union Park"!

Aug 03, 2021
By  Paige Agnew
Applications to amend the Official Plan and Zoning Bylaw, along with a Draft Plan of Subdivision have recently been received by staff in the Planning Services Department for the property municipally known as 40 Sir John A MacDonald Blvd. The property is bordered by Union St. to the north, Sir John A. MacDonald Blvd. to the east, King Street to the south and Portsmouth Village and the Harbour to...
More
00

Showing 6 to 10 of 166 entries.

Contact - Bus - Planning - Official Plan - Blog

<strong>Paige Agnew</strong>
Paige Agnew
Commissioner of Community Services
pagnew@cityofkingston.ca
613-546-4291, ext. 3252

Notice - Planning Blog - Find out more

Find out more about Paige.

Kingston Navigation Portlet