Category: Growth

Priority Setting Process Questions and Answers

Q. How did you arrive at this list of priorities? A. The list of priorities was derived from an open review of over 200 existing, pending and new project priorities which account for approximately 10-20% of the city’s resources and capacity. The two review meetings took place in the fall. Meeting 1: October 19, 2007 […]

Assistance for Muslim Society

I’m writing to seek your assitance in actively helping the Muslim Society find a new site for a place of worship. As expressed by the Mayor at Monday’s meeting, there is absolutely no question as to the society’s right to build a new place of worship, and after listening to their presentation there is little […]

DC’s and the South End Recreational Centre

There is a growing and very vocal number of residents living in the south end of Guelph advocating for a new recreational centre to be built as soon as possible. Currently, the City of Guelph has in it’s capital budget, construction of a new south end rec centre sometime in 2014. The projected cost of the rec centre […]

You take a library from the bottom

The following article appeared in the January 5 edition of the Guelph Mercury: It’s like an elaborate game, perhaps of dominoes, or maybe Jenga — how do you take a block from the bottom and put it on top without the entire structure collapsing? A couple of rounds of meetings have already happened, and there’s […]

Nimby, Pimby and Sigs

Not in my back yard. Put in my backyard. Special interest groups. Accurate, derogatory or misleading? These are terms that are commonly associated with grassroots organizations that lobby politicians to advance their particular agendas. Recently, Ward 2 City Councillors have received correspondence from: -A neighbourhood group opposed to the building of an medical/residential complex located […]

Ingram farmhouse proposal

I would like to express my concern for the proposal that the Ingram farmhouse, on Victoria road, be converted into an affordable housing unit. As a resident of the Northern Heights community I am especially against the suggestion that the park, I paid a premium to live near, is turned from a protected environment for […]

South End Recreational Facilities

I have been following the newspaper articles regarding the south end of Guelph and their desire to have a recreational facility build before 2013. Other areas need things as well. The west end of Guelph had to wait until the appointed time before they got a recreational facility and a supermarket, the east end of […]