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Hamilton neighbourhood group pushes province to impose lower-density Jamesville rebuild

"A Hamilton neighbourhood association wants the province to advance a lower-rise redevelopment for the city-owned Jamesville housing project instead of a higher-density plan under review for a zoning order. But the city councillor who represents the area warns a major change in the plan, a partnership with a private developer consortium, could further delay a project already slowed by a protracted dispute with CN Rail. “I think it’s a reasonable fear that the developer could walk away from the project,” said Coun. Cameron Kroetsch, who also sits on the board of the city’s affordable housing agency.

In 2022, the past city council approved a plan to redevelop the vacated, subsidized townhouse complex off James Street North into a 447-unit, mixed-income community with building heights of three and seven storeys.
Then, last year, frustrated with a CN appeal of the project to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT), the city released a revised approach that hiked building heights to 12 and 20 storeys with as many as 642 units.

That left no chance for the public to comment on concerns about height, parking, layout and street configuration, Herman Turkstra said during a North End Neighbourhood Association meeting this week.

“There was no process put in place for any feedback on any of the components of the plan,” Turkstra, a committee chair with the association, told residents at the Bennetto Community Centre.
By contrast, the less dense plan that council approved in 2022 had been subject to the city’s “proper planning process” with an opportunity for public comment, he noted.
With a show of hands, residents at the meeting voted that the association would send a letter calling on the municipal affairs and housing minister to approve the former plan..."
 
Demolition will be beginning on September 8 despite CN Rail appeal.
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vistaway said:
The finger pointing continues.

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‘Right safeguards’ point of contention as Jamesville dispute between Hamilton and CN Rail drags on

Both sides of conflict agree homes could have been built already but blame each other for stalled project.
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Yes. Here's an opinion piece written by CN's Senior Manager of Public Affairs published today.

Sorry Dan, but your fact-checkers need to improve their use of Google Maps... the housing is a lot more than 60m away from the yard; the rail corridor is a little over 50m, but the yard itself is over 250m from the southwest corner of the property in question depending where one measures. I'm sure the city did a wonderful job handling their end of this though.

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‘We support new housing’: CN responds to Hamilton’s request for a Jamesville redevelopment MZO

CN remains ready to collaborate and help make the redevelopment a success.
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So CN will step up and construct noisewalls around their entire yard then right? And their mainline? Surely they can afford this on a gross profit of $9B.
 
BrenWilson said:
So CN will step up and construct noisewalls around their entire yard then right? And their mainline? Surely they can afford this on a gross profit of $9B.
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CN (and CP) seem to spend as little as they can beyond operating the lines they have, though this is understandable given they are businesses. I'm actually surprised there have been level crossing improvements to CN's main route through Hamilton; so many of the others, like CP's and those of the "shortline" railways and spurs in Hamilton's industrial north end, are awful.... though in the latter case the money to fix them probably isn't there.
 
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