{"id":168607,"date":"2023-07-22T17:11:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T21:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=168607"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:11:59","slug":"police-called-to-alnwick-haldimand-township-council-meeting-due-to-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/police-called-to-alnwick-haldimand-township-council-meeting-due-to-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Police called to Alnwick\/Haldimand Township council meeting due to disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Police were called to Tuesday night\u2019s Alnwick\/Haldimand Township council meeting in Grafton when residents in the gallery became disruptive and failed to heed warning to stop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The disturbance happened during a conversation about short term rentals. The report from Fire Chief Dave Dawson suggested council make a decision on whether to implement a short-term rental bylaw before staff proceeds with more work. That decision wasn\u2019t expected Tuesday night, and Deputy Mayor Joan Stover said the report was likely to be deferred to a future meeting. The deputy mayor did suggest at one point a bylaw was likely close to being finalized which provoked the disturbance from the gallery, including short-term rental owners who are currently unregulated.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stover, who was chairing the meeting as Mayor John Logel was attending virtually, said she hasn\u2019t witnessed anything like what transpired during her tenure in municipal government before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stover maintains she believes it\u2019s important for council to formalize a bylaw to regulate short-term rentals in the municipality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acting CAO and Clerk Pat Kemp says all remaining agenda items left unaddressed, other than the short-term rentals report, will be moved to next Tuesday\u2019s municipal planning meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The short-term rentals report will be delayed until a future meeting, but the date remains unknown at this time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The next regular council meeting isn\u2019t until Sept. 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen here to the radio report:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police were called to Tuesday night\u2019s Alnwick\/Haldimand Township council meeting in Grafton when residents in the gallery became disruptive and failed to heed warning to stop.\u00a0 The disturbance happened during a conversation about short term rentals. The report from Fire Chief Dave Dawson suggested council make a decision on whether to implement a short-term rental&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":168611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225],"tags":[28490,283,28491,2385,14866],"radio":[25167],"origine":[267,25406,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168607"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168919,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168607\/revisions\/168919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168607"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=168607"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=168607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}