News

• Council endorses request to establish a Provincial Short Term Rental System
• Council endorses request for Provincial support of community-driven home care services
• Council approves amendments to Nuisance By-law
• Council receives 2022 Year End Reports & 2023 Work Plans from Advisory Committees
• Council passes motion in support of Pride events & Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives
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The City of Pickering is celebrating frontline workers and first responders through two new murals currently installed at Chestnut Hill Developments Recreation Complex (CHDRC). Artists connected with first-responders and sought out feedback from the community for their artworks.

Proposal

Applications (City File Numbers SP-2023-02 and A 005/23) for approval of a Draft Plan of Subdivision and Zoning By-law Amendment have been submitted by Seaton TFPM Inc., proposing blocks for residential uses including:  218 detached dwellings, 89 street townhouses, 52 back-to-back townhouses, 22 rear-lane townhouses, and a medium density block.

• City of Pickering passes 2023 Current & Capital Budgets
• Council receives the 2022 Sustainable Pickering Year-in-Review
• Council endorses staff comments on the Region’s Municipal Comprehensive Review of the Durham Regional Official Plan
• Council approves asphalt resurfacing for various streets
• Council approves running track replacement at Beverley Morgan Park and St. Mary Park
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April 17, 2023 - The City of Pickering and Province of Ontario have recently completed the sale of 151 acres of provincial lands in Pickering’s Innovation Corridor to FGF Brands, for the development of a high-tech, food manufacturing campus, which will be known as the Wonderbrands Innovation Business Park.

In addition, Council recently approved FGF Brands’ (Caplink Limited) draft plan of subdivision application and zoning by-law amendment application to permit the food manufacturing campus. The first phase of development will consist of three manufacturing plants and a distribution centre, with an overall gross floor area of over 1,000,000 square feet and the creation of 1,000 new jobs, with another 2,000 jobs coming in the second phase. Once full build-out is complete, the business park will be the largest food manufacturing campus in the GTA, as well as one of the largest employers in Pickering with its 3,000 new jobs.

Curiosity is an art piece by the artist Hallie A. Ndorley, depicting a curious child lying on their stomach, gazing upon a turtle. This visual art mural was commissioned by the City of Pickering and the Cultural Advisory Committee, to celebrate Black Culture and local Black Artists.

This work was commissioned and created as part of Pickering’s I Am Ontario Youth Arts Showcase – Youth Art Challenge. The Challenge was offered with the support of the Ontario 150 Celebration Grant, to commemorate Ontario’s Sesquicentennial in 2017.

Full Circle has been created by utilizing past banner submissions from The Pickering Community Banner Program. The Banner Program celebrated the culture, heritage and beauty of our City.

This 92-year-old ash tree was cut down from where it originally stood, because of an infestation of Emerald Ash Borers living inside of it, killing it. As an invasive species originating in north-eastern Asia, these insects could have devastated the ash tree population in Pickering.

This is a dynamic art feature made from recycled materials portraying a monarch butterfly’s lifecycle. It was installed as part of an Amberlea Park enhancement project through Pickering’s Celebrating Sustainable Neighbourhoods Program.