Not there yet
Council sends Loyalist Heights plans back to the drawing board During last Wednesday’s planning and development committee meeting, councillors reviewed a zoningc hange for the property that sits along Sandy Hook Road. The Loyalist Heights lands run along the Millennium Trail and are proposed to house 396 units, including 100 single-detached residential lots, 26 semi-detached […]
Crumbling foundation
Consultant confirms massive hole in waterworks plan The story started falling apart early last week. Shire Hall’s audit committee had been tasked with nailing down the assumptions that supported spending hundreds of millions on waterworks in Wellington and beyond. How many people are coming? When will they come? How much commercial development will they generate? […]
Live question
Who says water plants need to be replaced? The audit committee chair was reeling after learning that a key bit of the foundation supporting the Wellington waterworks expansion plan had collapsed under scrutiny. So John Hirsch may be forgiven for presuming he knows the answer to one of the primary questions still outstanding. “There is […]
Drawing lines
CAO says the problem is Wellington’s Secondary Plan It all comes back to lines on a map. The basis for spending $100 million in infrastructure in Wellington is thin lines drawn around the fields north of the village. The audit committee is still waiting for Watson’s population growth person, Jamie Cook, to explain how his […]
Saving Ontario shipwrecks
Preserving marine heritage for future generations The Great Lakes are the graveyard of thousands of sailing vessels, and while some may be of little interest to historians, there is a veritable slice of marine heritage at the bottom of these lakes. The area in Lake Ontario around the County is no exception, and there are […]
Q & A
Shire Hall responds to questions about a regional water plant In April, Shire Hall hosted an information centre unveiling its plans for a new super-regional water plant in Wellington. This mega project will be built in this village, but scaled up to accommodate the rapid population growth Shire Hall expects to inundate Picton and Wellington. […]
Sober outlook
Quinte West expects slow increases in population and new homebuilding Quinte West is expecting modest population growth—15 per cent—over the next 20 years, according to Watson and Associates. The consulting firm is projecting a population growth rate of under one per cent per year in Quinte West for the next 20 years—roughly in line with […]
Country comes to Base31
The Pretty Excellent Country Music Festival Cowboy boots and hats and big belt buckles, along with plaid shirts and denim shorts—and maybe a greater than usual number of pick-up trucks in the parking lot—were in evidence at Base31 on Friday and Saturday nights for the Pretty Excellent Country Music Festival in the Drill Hall. Friday […]
No to gravel
Council won’t return any of its roads to gravel Last week, Council decided that it is not interested in turning any of its deteriorating roads back to gravel. During the 2024 budget deliberations, Council directed staff to prepare a report on candidate roads for returning to gravel and what the operating budget, capital budget and […]
Discussions
Divided council approves draft terms of settlement At last Tuesday’s meeting, after gathering behind closed doors, Council approved draft terms of settlement between the municipality and Picton Terminals. Council directed its legal counsel to seek similar approval from Picton Terminals and that a meeting with Council, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, and Picton […]