All Posts Tagged With: "public consultation"
Public Input Wanted On Breakwater Park Design
Breakwater Park – the park that runs along the waterfront between Beverley and Barrie streets – will be the focus of an upcoming public meeting on how to enhance this great public space to further encourage active living. The workshop-style meeting, to be run by active transportation expert Gil Penalosa of 8-80 Cities, is set [...]
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Residents Invited To Help City Develop Age-friendly Plan
The City is seeking adults age 45 and older to participate in a series of focus groups aimed at developing an Age-friendly Kingston Plan using the World Health Organization’s (WHO) framework for age-friendly cities. Right now, the City is seeking to build a pool of willing participants for the focus groups which will take place [...]
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Public Asked For Input On Street Entertainers
The City is seeking the public’s input on street entertainers to help it develop a new process for licensing street entertainment in the downtown core. A Your Opinion survey is now available and asks questions regarding: What kind of street entertainers the public would prefer How many street entertainers should be allowed downtown Whether street [...]
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Final Municipal Housing Strategy Draft Available
The complete draft of the Municipal Housing Strategy is now available for public review and comment until Friday, June 10. Once finalized, the Municipal Housing Strategy will define a number of community-based approaches to strategically address housing needs to encourage affordable housing in Kingston and the County of Frontenac. This last draft of the Strategy, [...]
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Public Asked To Consider Off-Leash Hours At Four Parks
The City is considering a pilot project that would provide dog walkers with off-leash times – 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. – at Oakridge, Castell, Snider and Patterson Parks and/or allow for a permanent, fenced off-leash enclosure in Oakridge Park. “The intent of this site-specific pilot project is to provide improved access to the off-leash [...]
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Public Invited To Williamsville Main Street Study Charette
The public and affected businesses, organizations and residents, are invited to attend an upcoming Charette on the Williamsville Main Street Study. It is set for 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4 at St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 236 Nelson St. The consulting team of Brook McIlroy Inc. will be leading participants in a [...]
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Third Crossing Concepts To Be Presented
Residents can get their first look at what the proposed Third Crossing of the Cataraqui River could look like at a Public Information Centre (PIC) on Thursday, March 31, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at La Salle Secondary School, 773 Highway 15. A number of concepts for the potential crossing will be presented at [...]
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Skateboarders Invited To Help Design New Park
Community Response to Neighbourhood Concerns (CRNC) and the City are inviting skatepark users to bring their ideas to help design the elements in a new skatepark to be built at the Wally Elmer Neighbourhood Centre in Kingston’s Rideau Heights district. “If you are interested in skateparks in Kingston, we want to hear from you,” Neal [...]
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On Third Crossings and Other Mythical Beasts
The other day I attended an information session regarding the environmental assessment associated with a proposed thoroughfare that will better connect the eastern and western realms of Kingston. Truth be told, I was expecting a formal presentation with a Q&A session, however such formalities are rather premature at this early stage in the game. Of [...]
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Help Redesign the Memorial Centre
Regarding the Memorial Centre, we’ve said it all, and you’ve likely heard it all before. Moving well beyond an argument surrounding the viability of the K-Rock Centre, the fact remains that the M-Centre is still standing and in desperate need of repairs. The issue of revitalization extends above and beyond the hockey arena, as the [...]
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