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Council Brief from the July 14, 2025 Meeting

At its July 14, 2025 meeting, Council:

• Recognized Kingsville resident Linda Lynch for receiving the Ontario Senior of the Year Award and presented her with a certificate to honour the occasion
• Awarded the 2025 Kingsville Roof Repairs Tender to Kingsville Roofing in the amount of $347,000 (excluding HST)
• Awarded the Tender for Jasperson Drive Traffic Signal Installations to Field Electrical Contractors Inc. in the amount of $304,517 (excluding HST)
• Directed Administration to add a small curb cut in...

Planning Item for Review at the July 15, 2025 Committee of Adjustment and Appeals

The Committee of Adjustment and Appeals will review the following application at its July 15, 2025, meeting: 

1. 174 Main Street West: The applicant is proposing to adjust the property boundaries by severing a portion from 174 Main Street West to be added to an adjacent property at 11 O’Halloran Street. B-2025-11

We are now holding Council and Committee meetings at the Unico Hall Community Centre, 37 Beech Street.

Kingsville Launches 24-Hour-a-Day Hotline for Short-Term Rental Complaints

The Town of Kingsville has a new 24-hour-a-day Short-Term Rental Hotline to report nuisances at neighbouring short-term rental properties.

Short-Term Rentals include bed and breakfasts, hotels, motels, inns, and any structure, or part thereof, used for temporary lodging for a period of 28 consecutive days or less in exchange for payment. Short-Term Rentals do not include short-term accommodation where this is no payment.

Reportable incidences could include:

• Unauthorized short-term rentals
• Loud parties
• General noise...

Kingsville and Caldwell First Nation Raise Flag to Recognize National Indigenous Peoples Day

The Caldwell First Nation flag flies in Kingsville to acknowledge National Indigenous Peoples Day, which falls every year on June 21, and is also the day of the summer solstice, a deeply culturally significant day for Indigenous communities across Canada. 

Members of Kingsville Council were joined by members of Caldwell First Nation Council: Chief van Oirschot and Councilor DeGraw. Other notable members in attendance to observe the flag raising included County of Essex Warden Hilda MacDonald and...

Council Brief from the June 16, 2025 Meeting

At its June 16, 2025 meeting, Council:

• Approved Consent Application B-2025-09, to sever an existing dwelling, deemed surplus to the needs of the applicants’ farming operation, with an area of 0.16 hectares (0.40 acres) shown as Part 1 on the applicants’ sketch, known as 389 County Road 20 West, subject to certain conditions. Council further approved a corresponding Zoning By-law Amendment that amends the zoning on the severed residential parcel from ‘General Agricultural (A1) to ‘Rural...