TheHonestMaple
Active Member
Sounds like to they're giving it to people in need based on their skin colour. Why? because that's exactly what they said they're doing.
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Hawrylyshyn
Active Member
You sure like like to make things up and proceed to get angry about them
akiraredacted
New Member
You guys should make a private chat and argue in there instead.
Branden Simon
Senior Member
Request for a Minister Zoning order (MZO) has been issued and there is a 30 day comment period is open on the website
MZO for Jamesville Redevelopment
MZO for Jamesville Redevelopment
KingJames
Active Member
Hopefully there is not a long list of requests for MZOs and that the Minister will provide quick resolution to the benefit of the City
Hawrylyshyn
Active Member
Hamilton neighbourhood group pushes province to impose lower-density Jamesville rebuild
"A Hamilton neighbourhood association wants the province to advance a lower-rise redevelopment for the city-owned Jamesville housing project instead of a higher-density plan under review for a zoning order. But the city councillor who represents the area warns a major change in the plan, a partnership with a private developer consortium, could further delay a project already slowed by a protracted dispute with CN Rail. “I think it’s a reasonable fear that the developer could walk away from the project,” said Coun. Cameron Kroetsch, who also sits on the board of the city’s affordable housing agency.
In 2022, the past city council approved a plan to redevelop the vacated, subsidized townhouse complex off James Street North into a 447-unit, mixed-income community with building heights of three and seven storeys.
Then, last year, frustrated with a CN appeal of the project to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT), the city released a revised approach that hiked building heights to 12 and 20 storeys with as many as 642 units.
That left no chance for the public to comment on concerns about height, parking, layout and street configuration, Herman Turkstra said during a North End Neighbourhood Association meeting this week.
“There was no process put in place for any feedback on any of the components of the plan,” Turkstra, a committee chair with the association, told residents at the Bennetto Community Centre.
By contrast, the less dense plan that council approved in 2022 had been subject to the city’s “proper planning process” with an opportunity for public comment, he noted.
With a show of hands, residents at the meeting voted that the association would send a letter calling on the municipal affairs and housing minister to approve the former plan..."
"A Hamilton neighbourhood association wants the province to advance a lower-rise redevelopment for the city-owned Jamesville housing project instead of a higher-density plan under review for a zoning order. But the city councillor who represents the area warns a major change in the plan, a partnership with a private developer consortium, could further delay a project already slowed by a protracted dispute with CN Rail. “I think it’s a reasonable fear that the developer could walk away from the project,” said Coun. Cameron Kroetsch, who also sits on the board of the city’s affordable housing agency.
In 2022, the past city council approved a plan to redevelop the vacated, subsidized townhouse complex off James Street North into a 447-unit, mixed-income community with building heights of three and seven storeys.
Then, last year, frustrated with a CN appeal of the project to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT), the city released a revised approach that hiked building heights to 12 and 20 storeys with as many as 642 units.
That left no chance for the public to comment on concerns about height, parking, layout and street configuration, Herman Turkstra said during a North End Neighbourhood Association meeting this week.
“There was no process put in place for any feedback on any of the components of the plan,” Turkstra, a committee chair with the association, told residents at the Bennetto Community Centre.
By contrast, the less dense plan that council approved in 2022 had been subject to the city’s “proper planning process” with an opportunity for public comment, he noted.
With a show of hands, residents at the meeting voted that the association would send a letter calling on the municipal affairs and housing minister to approve the former plan..."
Branden Simon
Senior Member
Demolition will be beginning on September 8 despite CN Rail appeal.
Branden Simon
Senior Member
Demolition begins with trees removing and pathways ripped up (September 10, 2025)
Chronamut
Active Member
Wonder if there were any squatters in there..
we'll see how long this site remains vacant.
we'll see how long this site remains vacant.
ScreamingViking
New Member
I'd be surprised if there were none. It should never have taken this long; hopefully the province institutes the MZO and CN can go away.
Chronamut
Active Member
Yeah hopefully...