Town of Milton Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II first ran for public office in 1991 to encourage the municipality to develop a new Official Plan to deal with the significant growth that was about to come, as required by the Province of Ontario. It was approved in 1997. After a 12-year hiatus, […]
What follows are the Top Ten complaints I have received this year, so far. Let’s work on all of them together in the months to come with a view to eliminating them and creating a better place for all of us to live, work and play: Challenge: Speeding through residential neighbourhoods Solution: Demographically, […]
Following recommendations by Town of Milton Councillor John Challinor II, other members of Milton Council and Town staff, infrastructure is gradually being added over the next four years to Milton’s residential roads that will make them safer for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. For example, pedestrian crossovers near schools on major collector roads will receive […]
If the Town of Milton is able to identify a one-time funding source, it will establish an operating budget reserve fund that would generate income to help offset the impact on local property taxpayers brought about by annual operating budget tax increases. Town of Milton Ward 2 Councillor John Challinor II suggested the idea […]
While the Town of Milton, like all Ontario municipalities, is a creature of the province, developing a strong working relationship with the Government of Ontario and, ideally, being represented on the Government side of the House locally is critical to the Town’s future. Milton’s relationship with the current Government took a another step forward […]
Milton Mayor Gord Krantz and Town of Milton Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II were the lone voices of dissent with respect to the Town’s 2024 Budget, which will result in local property taxpayers paying 5.93% more for local municipal services this year. A typical detached home in Milton, which had a market value […]
The Greater Toronto Airports Authority recently reported that air traffic over the Greater Toronto Area, including Milton, during the first nine months of 2023 increased to 88 percent of what it was in 2019, prior to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Passenger growth increased 11.9 percent for the first three quarters of 2023 at Toronto Pearson […]
Good Neighbours Day, the popular community-led, volunteer neighbourhood clean-up program founded in 1992 by former Ward 2 resident, the late Len Lee (1942 – 2023), will return on Saturday April 27th after a five-year hiatus. Starting off with registration and breakfast at 8 a.m. at Hugh Foster Hall, located beside Town Hall, volunteers will be […]
The Town of Milton will request the Province of Ontario to install sound barriers along Highway 401 where there are residential neighbourhoods adjacent to North America’s busiest superhighway as a result of a motion brought before Milton Council to consider same by Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II. Mr. Challinor’s motion was seconded by […]
Existing school crossings and pedestrian crossovers were reviewed by Town staff in late 2023, following a request by Town of Milton Ward 2 Local Councillor John Challinor II, which was supported unanimously by Milton Council, and are being upgraded throughout the community, based on traffic counts. All future school crossings and pedestrian crossovers will be […]