{"id":201239,"date":"2023-12-08T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T17:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=201239"},"modified":"2023-12-08T12:43:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T17:43:28","slug":"the-people-versus-a-developer-kitchener-city-council-defers-tough-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-people-versus-a-developer-kitchener-city-council-defers-tough-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"The people versus a developer — Kitchener City Council defers tough decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rental housing crisis was on full display in front of Kitchener City Council on Monday night.<\/p>\n

A proposed 13-storey mixed-use building at 93-99 Benton Street and 39-43 St. George Street, within the Cedar Hill neighbourhood in Kitchener, would offer 96 new units but would also demolish the 13 current affordable units, evicting the current tenants.<\/p>\n

Eric Schneider, Senior Planner at the City of Kitchener laid out what the developer is asking for and the arrangements with the current residents.<\/p>\n

The applicant, Ideal Capital Limited<\/a> from Mississauga, answered Council's questions and, after their request, indicated he would meet with residents.<\/p>\n

Thirteen delegates asked Council to reject this proposal. Delegates included three representatives from a local tenants\u2019 rights group (ACORN Waterloo Region<\/a>), several current residents of the townhouses, and neighbours from the Cedar Hill community.<\/p>\n

Against several of the delegates\u2019 wishes, City Council chose to defer their decision until the January 22, 2024 council meeting.<\/p>\n

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The rental housing crisis was on full display in front of Kitchener City Council on Monday night. A proposed 13-storey mixed-use building at 93-99 Benton Street and 39-43 St. George Street, within the Cedar Hill neighbourhood in Kitchener, would offer 96 new units but would also demolish the 13 current affordable units, evicting the current…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":201334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,21655],"tags":[1871,24561,7465,2335],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201239"}],"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\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201471,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201239\/revisions\/201471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201239"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=201239"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=201239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}