Today I am very excited to announce a community visioning exercise for Kingston Penitentiary, led by Canada Lands Company in partnership with the City of Kingston, to take place in 2016. This visioning exercise is a critical step towards crafting a new future for the KP property and surrounding properties, including the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour.…
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This week City Council approved a plan to complete the K&P Trail including a new urban section to connect the existing trail at the north end of the city, near Hwy 401, with the downtown core, at the base of Doug Fluhrer Park. As we continue to create a more livable city, this new section…
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During this week’s City Council budget deliberations, the hot topic of discussion and debate was the planned expansion of Kingston’s Norman Rogers Airport. Earlier this year City Council identified both the extension of the existing runway and the expansion of the airport terminal as key infrastructure priorities for the 2015-2018 term of Council. However during…
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Next week City Council will be presented with the City of Kingston’s draft 2016 operating and capital budgets. I’ve already had a chance to look it over and at this point I like what I see. First, there are a number of important investments that we will be making over the next year including: $16…
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Check out the latest version of From the Mayor’s Chair, where I break down the decisions of Council in 3 minutes or less. Highlights from the November 17 Council meeting include; the reconsideration of the Memorial Centre site as a possible location for a new high school, a discussion of the Transportation Master Plan and active…
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As many commuters probably noticed this week, the section of John Counter Boulevard between Princess Street and Portsmouth Avenue was closed for construction. The construction this week, and more to come over the next few years, will be well worth the occasional traffic detour as we move towards the completion of a widened road with an overpass over the rail…
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This week I’m pleased to announce the launch of an online survey seeking community feedback as part of the ongoing KEDCO review process. We want to hear from all Kingston residents interested in economic development; your feedback and ideas for building our local economy are important and will help shape the future of our community.…
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Check out the latest version of From the Mayor’s Chair, where I break down the decisions of Council in three minutes or less. Highlights from the November 3 Council meeting include; discussion of a demolition request for a heritage home in Barriefield Village, a change to the areas of the city where secondary suites are permitted…
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This week I’d like to give a shout out to Kingston Police and the Queen’s Alma Mater Society (AMS) for their great work in making this past weekend’s Homecoming festivities a safe, fun and positive experience for students, alumni and the wider Kingston community. The weather certainly helped too, but that should not discount the importance of…
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Strengthening the vitality of the downtown is one of my top priorities as mayor. I have heard from Kingstonians, and I agree, that one of the keys to the continued vitality of the downtown is more residential development. That’s of course because more downtown apartments or condos means more people living right downtown creating a…
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