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The City and the Kingston Family YMCA are offering a variety of Family Day activities for Monday, Feb. 20. (The holiday schedule for municipal services follows the activity listing.) AT THE INVISTA CENTRE FREE Public Skate from 1 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. sponsored by James Braden Ford Regular Public Skate
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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
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As part of the continuing work on the Kingston Culture Plan, the City has launched a Your Opinion survey to ask Kingston residents, businesses and institutions how they perceive the city’s history and stories. “With so many significant anniversaries and celebrations coming up in the next few years, this process
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City Council has approved the 2012 operating and capital budgets. The 2012 municipal operating budget, amounting to just under $301 million, represents a tax increase of 3.5 per cent, accounting for inflation estimated at 2.0 per cent, incremental capital investment of one per cent and service changes of 0.5 per
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Kingstonians diverted 13 per cent more residential waste from landfill in 2010 than 2009 according to Waste Diversion Ontario (WDO). Kingston’s 55 per cent total diversion rate in 2010 puts the city at the top of its class in Ontario beating out municipalities like Peterborough, North Bay and Sudbury (Kingston
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The 2011 Livable City Design Awards, celebrating excellence in building project design, were handed out last night in the Wilson Room at the Central branch of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library. And the winners are: Awards of Excellence Princess Street Reconstruction – Phase 1: designed by Corush Sunderland Wright Limited
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Sharrows – symbols painted on the road are being added to provide cyclists with cycling line-of-travel guidance and to remind motorists to share the road. The sharrows are being added along: Johnson Street from Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard to King Street East. Brock Street from Montreal Street to Sir
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Last night City Council approved an 18-month pilot project to test-drive a bylaw allowing Kingston residents to keep up to six egg-laying backyard hens. Anyone wishing to keep backyard hens must first fill out an application to register with the Building & Licensing Division at City Hall, 216 Ontario St.
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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
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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
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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
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The City of Kingston announced today that it is purchasing the historic downtown landmark known as the British Whig Building as its permanent municipal administration centre in the City’s downtown core. The purchase was approved by Kingston City Council at its meeting of Feb. 15, 2011. “The City is pleased
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