From Niagara This Week:
Councillors in wards with a high concentration of students have asked that the provincial body determining assessment rates treat single family homes converted into student housing differently.
In a question and answer session following a presentation to council by local Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) representative Penny Christie, St. Andrew’s ward councillors Andrew [...]

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From the St. Catharines Standard:
A new apartment building and townhouse development on the site of the former Grey Gables School is exactly what west St. Catharines needs, city councillors said Monday.
The eight townhouses approved for Dexter Street and the seniors apartment building approved next door on St. Paul Street West “are a good mix of [...]

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