Delegation Well Received at January 11th CPRM Committee Meeting
Citizens’ PLAN B got a “heads-up” on Saturday of an update to the Waterfront Hotel Planning Study that would be presented on the following Tuesday at Burlington’s Community Planning, Regulation & Mobility Committee Meeting. We read the Planning Department’s update known as PL-15-22 with concern given that they were planning on a completion timeframe of […]
Whatever Happened to Our Residents’ Input?
From April 2017, when the Waterfront Hotel Planning Study commenced, hundreds of residents have participated along with Burlington planning staff and consultants in multiple workshops, presentations and surveys to inform the design of the development that would replace the current building and adjoining surface parking lot. This figure (below) prepared by The Planning Partnership (consultants […]
All you ever wanted to know about the Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line is central to achieving our goals and some of you who have recently become supporters have asked about its’ origin. The eventual founders of Citizens’ PLAN B were participants in the City’s community engagement initiative for the Waterfront Hotel Planning Study which ran from May 2017 to September 2017. We gladly […]
An incomplete application should not be grandfathered!
You may have heard that the application for the Waterfront Hotel redevelopment has been submitted prior to Steve Clark, Ontario Minister Of Municipal Affairs & Housing, approving ROPA 48 on November 10th, effectively eliminating two intensification arguments (MTSA & UGC designations) used by developers trying to justify increasing high condo developments downtown. That’s all true… […]
Development over safety?
Developer Vrancor from Hamilton is planning to build 2 condos, 35 and 30 storeys, connected by a 60-foot podium wall stretching along Lakeshore Rd from Brant St. to Elizabeth St. This proposed over intensification is a potential threat to public safety. There will be construction for years… It will create more traffic congestion without a […]