This edition of the Ward 1 newsletter includes

• Ward 1 Community Sponsored Free Holiday Skate
• City of Hamilton, What's Open and What's Not
• Christmas Tree Pick-up or Drop-off
• Barton/Tiffany Outdoor Shelter Update
• Name the Plows 2025
• Developments in Ward 1
• Events

Join your neighbours at one of many free holiday skate sessions across Hamilton. 

Locally, enjoy a family-friendly afternoon at Ward 1's Coronation Arena (81 Macklin St N, Hamilton). Sponsored by the residents of Ward 1.

• Coronation: Saturday, December 28 2:00-4:00 PM
• Coronation: Sunday, December 29 1:00-3:00 PM

What's open, What’s Not. 

All City of Hamilton administrative offices will be closed from December 25 to January 1 and will reopen on January 2, 2025.

The Ward 1 office closed at the end of the day on December 20th and will reopen on January 2nd.  We look forward to connecting with you upon our return. 

For emergencies involving roads, water mains, sewer systems & safety issues, call 905-546-2489 (CITY) or email [email protected].

For a detailed list of closures, see the City’s Holiday Schedule: What's Open & Closed | City of Hamilton 

Natural Christmas Tree Pick-up or Drop-off

Natural Christmas trees are collected curbside the first and second week of January on your regular City collection day. 

• Place trees curbside by 7 am only on your collection day. Trees should be clear of snow and ice and easily accessible for collection. 
• DO NOT place trees on top of or behind snowbanks. 
• Remove all decorations (bulbs, lights, tinsel), stands and bags before collection. 
• Trees over 2.1 m (6.9 ft) should be cut in half. 
• A maximum of 5 trees will be collected 
• Real wreaths will be collected with natural Christmas trees. Remove all decorations before placing them at the curb. 

If you have a Christmas tree to dispose of after the second week of January, you can bring it to a Community Recycling Centre for free. 

Alternatively, pre-register with the Royal Botanical Gardens to drop off your natural Christmas tree

The annual tree collection returns! RBG needs a maximum of 2,000 trees to strategically place them in critical zones. Community members are asked to pre-register their donation(s) before their drop-off to ensure we receive the desired amount for the project. Are you up to the calculated challenge? Let your tree continue to work for nature even after it’s done its traditional duty.

Visit the RBG's Pledge a Tree site.

Barton-Tiffany Outdoor Shelter Update 2

City staff have been working to fulfil the Mayor’s directive (MDI-2024-02) to prepare and install a temporary outdoor shelter site for residents in need.  Regrettably, City staff have shared that there have been some unexpected setbacks due to additional health and safety measures and production delays impacting delivery dates for the microshelters and washroom facilities. As a result, the site is expected to open beginning in mid-January, with a phased-in opening. The remaining outdoor shelter spaces will open soon after.

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Name the Plow 2025

Developments in Ward 1

1570 Main Street West - Drop-in Open House

• Date: Thursday, January 16th, 2025
• Time: Drop-in between 6 PM and 8 PM
• Location: St. Mary Catholic Secondary School – Cafeteria, 200 Whitney Avenue, Hamilton, ON

Kindred Works invites residents to join their Public Open House to learn about their proposed redevelopment plans for 1570 Main Street West in Ainslie Wood. The application proposes a new 12-storey residential building consisting of 176 rental units, with a café/retail space on the ground floor.

Members of the Kindred Works team will be available to share details about the proposed development, gather community input and answer questions regarding the proposal and upcoming Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment application. Your input is valuable, and residents and community members are encouraged to review and provide feedback on the proposed plan.

Community members are welcome to stop by anytime during the Public Open House — team members will be available to speak with throughout the event, and there will be no formal presentations. Light refreshments will be served. Families are welcome, and the venue is barrier-free and wheelchair accessible.

Hamilton’s Design Review Panel reviewed the preliminary application on December 12, 2024. The package, along with staff comments on the proposal, will be posted on the City of Hamilton Website in the coming weeks under “2024 Meetings”  “December 12, 2024”: on the DRP website. 

925 Main Street West & 150 Longwood Road South - Update

The developer of 925 Main St W and Longwood Rd S presented their proposed project to the Design Review Panel on December 12, 2024. The video should be posted in January.

The developer is proposing a mixed-use residential building consisting of two 25-storey towers connected by one six-storey podium, 628 residential units, 687.10 square metres of commercial space at grade, 382 parking spaces with four levels of underground parking spaces and 654 bicycle storage/locker spaces.

Information on the development is on the project website. 

Both projects above have yet to submit their development applications to the planning committee.

Events

Strathcona Living Advent Calendar

• Location: various locations in the Strathcona neighbourhood 
• Time: Evenings starting December 1 through to the 25th  
• Info: Join your neighbours for Strathcona’s 5th Annual Living Advent Calendar, inspired by the Westdale Living Advent Calendar and a Swiss tradition. Each day of Advent, participating homes in Strathcona will reveal a decorated window.  
• Check out more information on the Linktree, including a poster with a QR code you can print out and hang up. 
  

Westdale Living Advent Calendar 

• Location: various locations in Westdale 
• Time: evenings beginning December 1 through December 25 
• Info: Each day in December, a decorated window will be revealed in homes around the Westdale neighbourhood. Check out the Westdale Living Advent Calendar Facebook event page for this year's addresses!

Greener Ward 1

Let's do our part in Ward 1 to create healthy, biodiverse neighbourhoods for all living things! Check out Greener Ward 1!

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The City of Hamilton is situated upon the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, which was an agreement between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek to share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. We further acknowledge that this land is covered by the Between the Lakes Purchase, 1792, between the Crown and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. 

Today, the City of Hamilton is home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island (North America), and we recognize that we must do more to learn about the rich history of this land so that we can better understand our roles as residents, neighbours, partners and caretakers. 

Learn more about the City of Hamilton's Land Acknowledgement here.