Robin Harvey

2 weeks ago | lfpress.com | Robin Harvey

It was refreshing to read council has voted against renaming Plantation Road Larch Road, and has, among other things, agreed to use part of the surplus to reduce the projected tax increase for Londoners, to meet the development charge exemptions mandated by the provincial government and to pay down the city debt. At least council appears to have departed from the practice of previous councils which irresponsibly spent surplus funds on items that were not worthy.

2 weeks ago | lfpress.com | Robin Harvey

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3 weeks ago | lfpress.com | Robin Harvey

Kudos to York Developments for adjusting the design for their twin towers at the forks of the Thames to meet a higher-end hotel-like unit and full-service New York-style resident demand. The estimated development fees for 800 condo and apartment units would be about $21 million and due to the Downtown DC Incentive zone designation taxpayers will “fork” this over the next 10 years back to York.

3 weeks ago | lfpress.com | Robin Harvey

The price of these rapid transit bus shelters is staggering: $500,000 for a two-bay and $800,000 for a three-bay shelter. Eventually there will be 40 of these beauties at an estimated cost of $39 million in taxpayer cash. In 2022, LTC was given $350 million in taxpayer bucks to do the BRT. Now the price has jumped to $450 million and counting. Dealing with illegal trash dumpers?

3 weeks ago | lfpress.com | Robin Harvey

Re: St. Thomas gets huge tariff update on Volkswagen’s planned 3,000-worker plant (May 8). Just because under today’s version of Donald Trump’s tariffs, the batteries to be produced by the new plant will still be a viable product, it does not mean the same tariffs will be in effect tomorrow, or next month – or later this afternoon. Trump changes his “mind” on a whim and if Elmo doesn’t want Volkswagen as a competitor and complains to the Tangerine Tyrant, the tariffs will change.