Original post on Steve’s Councillor Ward 2 Facebook page, December 6, 2025 I have always wanted to share information with residents, regardless of whether the news is good or bad. In our Friday Files received yesterday, Council received a memo that advises of a settlement reached regarding the development at 184 Pinehurst Road (The corner […]
Original post on Steve’s Councillor Ward 2 Facebook page, June 23, 2025 On the Agenda for the Council meeting June 24, 2025: Housing Needs. We definitely need to find ways to ensure that sufficient housing is available, and that the right mix of housing types1 is available for our residents now, and in the future. […]
Original post on Steve’s Councillor Ward 2 Facebook page, May 23, 2025 Forty years ago, as a teenager working at Calbeck’s grocery store in the north end of Paris, we would often carry out groceries for the seniors who lived in the apartment building across the street on Trillium Way. We would walk over with […]
County of Brant Councillors Wards 2 and 3 2018-2022: John Pearce, John Bell, Marc Laferriere, Steve Howes – photo courtesy of Marc Laferriere From Steve: I think you will be interested in this post about this past term of County of Brant Council, written by my wonderful colleague Marc Laferriere, Councillor for Ward 2 County […]
This is the second in Steve’s series of posts about his Priorities. This one is tricky. I have seen first hand that people do not want multi-story apartment buildings in their backyard. At the same time, our community needs a broader variety of more modest housing solutions, including rental dwellings. One of the most efficient […]
This was originally posted to Steve’s Facebook Page April 6, 2022. The information presented was accurate as of that date, however changes may have occurred since then. I often hear questions about how the County pays for services, especially those related to growth: Does Growth indeed pay for Growth? The answer is found under the […]
The original version of this article was posted to Steve’s Facebook page March 3, 2019 Note: The Creation of Modest Housing Options is one of Steve’s Priorities for the upcoming (October 24, 2022) election Some food for thought: We had a chance to visit friends at a retirement community in Florida in 2019. This was […]
Image: Town of Paris circa 1990, by bbjenkins This the first in Steve’s series of posts about his Priorities. People who have lived here for decades and people who just moved here have one distinct thing in common: they all tell me they are frustrated with the rapid growth of our Town. My response is […]
Ward 2, Paris, is now the home of the County of Brant’s latest ARU (Additional Residential Unit). This lovely dwelling in the rear yard of Avery Moore Kloss and Jason Kloss, is the culmination of an original desire to help increase modest dwelling availability in Paris and several months of navigating the municipal process, and […]
There is a good news story about our next Affordable Housing project in the Paris Independent by Casandra Turnbull. This is a complex endeavour and the story explains it very well. Our community needs LOTS of new housing that is Affordable/Attainable. As I said to the reporter: we need many more of these throughout the […]
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