Controversial residential tower extended lifeline by councillors
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An application to build a 22-storey high rise behind Richmond Row may get one more chance.
On Monday, the Planning and Environment Committee (PEC) recommended the rezoning application be referred back to civic administration for further consultation with York Developments.
In the report to PEC, city planners recommended council refuse the rezoning application that would permit a 22-storey student-oriented residential building at the southeast corner of Ann and St. George streets.
Coun. Shawn Lewis warned colleagues that granting heritage designation to the Victorian-era Kent Brewery and associated brewer’s house might jeopardize future development of the property.
“Our neighbourhoods can’t become trapped like flies in amber. We need to let them evolve and grow,” said Lewis.
“How much are we restricted by designating this? My understanding is we are not,” said Deputy Mayor Josh Morgan after asking several questions of city planners.
“We should take a pause when we see recommendations for refusal,” warned Coun. Stephen Turner. “Understand what’s behind that (recommendation) is months, and months, and months of work.”
It's official — Quebec has set a new record for the most stolen vehicles recovered in one year by Canadian border agents.
Facing criticism for requiring health care workers with two jobs within the public system to choose one to comply with labour laws, Santé Québec has announced a one-year extension to the transition period.
The consortium responsible for building Ottawa's new north-south line, TransitNext, says it is ready for the City of Ottawa to begin the final phase of approvals before opening the line to the public.
Former Saskatchewan Party MLA Greg Lawrence has been sentenced to 12 months probation – after pleading guilty to one count of assault.
Several thousand British Columbians remain in the dark Wednesday morning after a windstorm known as a bomb cyclone slammed coastal communities.
A man who plead guilty to a double stabbing in 2015 will soon be out on statutory release, but he'll have to follow some strict conditions set out by the parole board.
A school bus hit parked vehicles and pushed one into a Middle Sackville, N.S., home Wednesday afternoon.
A four-month-old baby is dead after what Toronto police are calling a “suspicious incident” at a Toronto Community Housing building in the city’s midtown area on Wednesday afternoon.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced embattled minister Randy Boissonnault is out of cabinet.
A London father and son they’re shocked and confused after their home was riddled with bullets while young children were sleeping inside.
Dale McFee will retire as head of the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) on Feb. 21, the Edmonton Police Commission said in an email on Wednesday.