The 155 Podcast Interview
Key Answers from The 155 Podcast
Two city-wide priorities, and how to achieve them
- Roads: better coordination among the City, utilities and telecoms so roads aren’t torn up soon after resurfacing (he cites Barton).
- Homelessness: municipal coordination of the many agencies and organizations working on the problem.
Two changes to improve City services
- Simplify garbage and recycling collection and push the City’s 2026–2050 waste plan.
- Free HSR service for high school students, possibly extending later to all students; he cites Kingston’s program and its reported results.
Two changes to improve quality of life in Hamilton
- A proactive rental-housing plan: bylaw enforcement with more “teeth,” beyond complaint-based reporting, to keep rental properties maintained.
- Coordinate road work with utilities so concrete is broken once.
Two priorities for Ward 3
- Improve the quality of rental units by moving bylaw enforcement from complaint-based to proactive, risk-based inspection and charging repeat bad actors.
- Open doors to businesses: a City fund for grants to refurbish vacant properties and a vacant property tax strong enough to discourage leaving buildings empty (he says Ward 3 has about 100 vacant buildings).
Three words for a four-year term (looking back from September 2030)
Transparent, open-minded, honest.
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