There’s a report being represented to Milton Town Council on Monday with the innocent title of “Capital Asset Management“. It’s an issue that municpalties sometimes ignore or set aside at the peril of their future health. Much of Milton’s infrastructure has been built up in recent years through development charges. Roads, parks, storm sewers all funded using a good portion of monies collected from developers. Our growth has been highly concentrated in the past few years. It hasn’t been gradual but rather an explosion that came after the “Big Pipe” brought both water and wastewater services to Milton. In a 3 year time period from 2007 to 2010 alone we saw some $200 million in the form of roads, buildings and wastewater infrastructure be added to the Town’s asset list. But infrastructure doesn’t last forever. What was built around the same time will also need to be renewed around the same time. Read more »

Informal 2012 Milton Budget Input Session on Monday July 11th in Room 4 of the Milton Sports Centre starting at 7:00 pm.
The input and comments received during this budget input session will be summarized and delivered to Town of Milton staff as further feedback from the community into the 2012 budget process.

Milton residents are invited to provide public comments on the 2012 Town Budget in regards to programs, service levels and priorities. Town staff will be conducting a presentation at the start of the meeting to introduce the budget process.

If you’d like to provide input please register as a delegation. You can do so online at the town’s website (www.milton.ca) or by picking up the forms at the Clerks Office (Town Hall West, 150 Mary Street). If you’d like to provide input please submit your forms before 10 am on May 30th.

The meeting starts at 7pm on Monday (May 30th) in the Council Chambers, Town Hall West, 150 Mary street.

Future development by this area is a frequent question that I’ve been replying to either through emails or postings on the online forum but I wanted to consolidate some answers here for more public visibility.

On the south side of Louis St. Laurent there will be “secondary mixed use node” development likely starting in the next few years.   This includes retail usages on the ground level with possible residential/office above.   To keep the streetscape clean the long term goal is to minimize the amount of surface parking that fronts onto the roads.    There may be an interim phase that has surface parking by the road side but the long term phase will have continuous mixed-use buildings that front onto the street.   See additional pictures below (click on “Read more” for them to appear) along with additional information.

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