24 Draft Council Actions.
Open the full draft motion file: problem, proposed move, authority, cost, sources and next step.I am not asking you to take a campaign promise on faith. These are the actual actions I am prepared to bring forward. Read the one that matters to you, then judge the problem, the proposed move and whether the result is something you could actually see.
A councillor cannot independently order City departments, direct police operations, approve funding, change zoning, or guarantee that Council will support a motion.
That is why each draft shows what I would put forward and keeps the approval path, cost and sources available in the detail.
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These are draft motion concepts. Each record shows its current source status. Records marked “Source verification required” still have source work to complete before the draft can be treated as final. All records remain subject to legal review, procedural rules, committee jurisdiction, and Council consideration.
Council has endorsed a 10-year, $48-million downtown revitalization plan including 58 recommended actions.
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Residents and businesses continue to raise concerns about recurring open-air illegal drug use and related disorder in public spaces.
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The City's Emergency Shelter Guidelines were substantively updated in 2026, including changes to policy on alcohol, cannabis, and illegal substances on shelter property.
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Ward 13 is affected by multiple concurrent, multi-year construction projects, including the East London Link and related road and bridge work.
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Downtown London's core office and commercial vacancy remains among the highest in Canada.
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Residents repeatedly report City and contractor projects left incomplete, with outstanding deficiencies unresolved for extended periods and no clear follow-up process.
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Council's direct accountability relationship with City staffing runs through the City Manager, who is responsible for the performance of Civic Administration as a whole.
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The Planning Act already permits municipalities to set a lapse period on site plan and zoning approvals (minimum three years) if construction has not begun, but London does not consistently apply or enforce this tool.
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The City of London has endorsed the CMHC Housing Design Catalogue and supports all seven Ontario designs.
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A new Council term should begin with a clear public record of major Council-approved strategic initiatives, material programs, committed funding, responsible divisions, current delivery status, and measurable results to date.
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London needs a wider range of housing forms and a clearer path for complete, repeatable housing proposals that meet established planning, servicing, building-code, accessibility, fire-safety, and neighbourhood requirements.
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The City of London's Sale and Other Disposition of Land Policy requires the Municipal Housing Division to have an opportunity to advise Council before potentially developable surplus land is disposed of.
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Prolonged commercial vacancy and avoidable property deterioration can transfer safety, economic, heritage, and neighbourhood costs to the surrounding community.
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London runs a Multi-Year Budget with quarterly variance reports and a top-tier Aaa balance sheet, yet residents have no plain-language summary of where their tax dollars actually went.
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When a major City project runs over its approved budget, there is no consistent requirement to explain the overrun in public before more money is committed.
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Residents should not have to guess how long a basic City service request is supposed to take.
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The former Old Victoria Hospital lands in SoHo are being redeveloped by the Vision SoHo Alliance into roughly 600 homes — about 300 of them affordable — with two heritage hospital buildings kept.
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Ward 13's parks and green spaces — from Harris Park's riverfront to the Thames Park rebuild to Victoria Park — are improved through separate projects and budgets, with no single public place for residents to see the condition, the planned work, and the spending for every park in the ward.
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The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority has updated its regulated-area and flood-hazard mapping for London.
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London and Middlesex have endorsed the 2026–2031 Housing Stability Action Plan.
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London Transit and London Police announced that Foot Patrol officers would periodically ride or walk through buses during regular shifts in the Downtown, Midtown and Old East Village.
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Downtown public washroom access is a basic service issue.
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Prescribed safer-supply programs are intended to reduce overdose risk, but take-home controlled opioids can raise legitimate public questions about diversion, street resale, safeguards and whether the program is moving people toward greater stability.
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Downtown residents can face repeated overnight emergency-vehicle sirens as well as construction noise that begins before permitted hours.
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Follow This Through
Legal and Procedural Qualifications
Community-safety reporting requests information through lawful Council/Police Services Board channels and does not direct operations.
Vacant-property publication is limited to lawfully disclosable information.
Project-deficiency accountability focuses on service areas and accountable executives, not public targeting of individual employees.
Contract penalties operate through lawful procurement and contract terms.
Use It or Lose It asks Planning and Legal to confirm what can actually be done before Council acts.
Catalogue Homes asks for the practical options, cost, staffing and resources required.
Emergency Shelter Guidelines motion (M3) remains a Draft Concept until the official 2026 City agenda source is verified and linked.
All motions are subject to legal, procedural, and jurisdictional review before formal introduction.