With the municipal election coming up in October, and a new awareness of how fragile our community is, I am scared.
I sat through a long Owen Sound Council meeting tonight. A detailed motion was brought forward by John Tamming to ban Short Term Rentals in Residential neighbourhoods because of the havoc they are causing. Note that "STR's" refers to houses that are owned by people from other cities, who do not live in these houses but just siphon off money and remove the homes from the housing market.
The following motion brought by Councillor John Tamming to council this evening was voted down, 3 in favour (Tamming, Merton, Greig) and 6 opposed.
"WHEREAS Owen Sound currently has no express by-laws for the regulation of short-term rental accommodations (STR);
A person with no fixed address can be added to the voters’ list. We have an affidavit the individual would need to complete in order to be added to the list if they don’t have any identification with a qualifying address).
There are basically 3 options as outlined below. ...
- by Kimberley Love
By the strangest coincidence... I woke up a week ago in a lovely cottage on the grounds of Balmoral, after a wonderful day at the Braemar Games.
Glen and I were guests of friends who are still at Balmoral: behind the large gilded gates, and I think the only people on the grounds who are not the Royal family or its close household.
- by David McLaren
There’s a new billboard in town and people are noticing. That’s somewhat unusual for billboards. One goes up and you might glance at if few times. Then it comes down and the next one goes up.
This billboard is behind Tim Horton’s in Owen Sound where cars line up every day for coffee and a snack and where
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