‘We all need to be more accepting of our neighbours’
Affordable housing coming to Hamilton Ave. and Bennett Ave. and bedsitting rooms at the HUB. Plus: a new design manual to help developers get it right the first time.
Let’s Get Municipal
Let’s Get Municipal is a bi-weekly column wherein Sara Swain gets more intimate with the local government body by recapping St. John’s City Council meetings and reflecting on pressing issues in the province’s capital city.
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Paradise Above the Dashboard Light
Froude’s gone but not forgotten. A ghost kitchen haunts Springdale Street. Decisions about collisions. A new fourplex brings change to University Avenue. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library comes to town.
All I want for Christmas is… a New Fiscal Framework
A 2024 Budget is born. Snow clearing wishes come true. Affordable housing visions dance on the horizon. An old tree gets a second chance. And requests for parking relief reveal a shocking truth: not everyone drives a car (gasp!)
Any Porta-Potty in a Storm
Toilets are the talk of the town this week, just not in chambers. Excitement about a big shiny apartment building. Housing may not trickle down, but raw sewage does, and the Goulds is finally getting theirs treated. A water tax loophole is closed. And wetlands are open for assessment.
A Mace at the Table
Students ask Mayor Breen the tough questions. National Housing Day looms. Trails are expanding in a round-about way. Ignore the mace, but mind your road rage ahead of those holiday parades.
Paradise Above the Dashboard Light
Froude’s gone but not forgotten. A ghost kitchen haunts Springdale Street. Decisions about collisions. A new fourplex brings change to University Avenue. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library comes to town.
All I want for Christmas is… a New Fiscal Framework
A 2024 Budget is born. Snow clearing wishes come true. Affordable housing visions dance on the horizon. An old tree gets a second chance. And requests for parking relief reveal a shocking truth: not everyone drives a car (gasp!)
Any Porta-Potty in a Storm
Toilets are the talk of the town this week, just not in chambers. Excitement about a big shiny apartment building. Housing may not trickle down, but raw sewage does, and the Goulds is finally getting theirs treated. A water tax loophole is closed. And wetlands are open for assessment.
A Mace at the Table
Students ask Mayor Breen the tough questions. National Housing Day looms. Trails are expanding in a round-about way. Ignore the mace, but mind your road rage ahead of those holiday parades.