Kelowna City Council 2018

Kelowna taxpayers could pay 4.4 per cent more in 2019
KELOWNA – City staff are calling for a 2.45 per cent tax increase in 2019,…

Controversial Kelowna short-term rental rules going to public hearing
KELOWNA – Kelowna city council is lining up one fractious public hearing after another for…

Kelowna heritage home will be preserved as a burned out shell
KELOWNA – One of the oldest surviving houses in Kelowna was narrowly saved yesterday when…

Extra tax hike every year won’t be enough to pay for Kelowna roads and parks
KELOWNA – Even if Kelowna hits taxpayers with an annual infrastructure tax, it won’t be…

Kelowna looking at ways to cut into $463 million infrastructure shortfall
KELOWNA – Over the next 10 years, the City of Kelowna wants to build more…

Infrastructure tax could be first of many increases to deal with Kelowna’s $477 million deficit
KELOWNA – A proposed 1.95 per cent infrastructure tax in 2019 is just one relatively…

Date set for public hearing on controversial Kelowna housing project
KELOWNA – A special public hearing will be held just for the controversial Agassiz supportive…

Bureaucracy won’t delay search for new home for Cornerstone emergency shelter in Kelowna
KELOWNA – Even though former Kelowna RCMP Supt. Bill McKinnon’s report to council on crime…

RCMP should get out of policing large cities, former Kelowna superintendent says
KELOWNA – It’s going to take more than lobbying by the City of Kelowna to…
Dozens of applications filed for pot shops in Kelowna
KELOWNA – Forty-one applications have been made to the City of Kelowna in the first…

Kelowna looking $9 million in grants for City Park
KELOWNA – City council will be asked Monday to consider applying to the federal and…

Rules on the way to control short-term rentals in Kelowna
KELOWNA – City council will review proposed regulations Monday that will allow homeowners to rent…

Pathways Abilities Society wants to replace bike shop with six-storey housing complex in Kelowna
KELOWNA – An affordable housing project could replace a building used to help Kelowna residents…

Crime rate up by almost 50 per cent in downtown Kelowna
KELOWNA – The latest crime stats in Kelowna back up the perception that crime is…

Action needed immediately on Kelowna homeless shelters
KELOWNA – The city cannot wait until the New Year to start looking for a…