By Gazette Staff
February 5th, 2026
BURLINGTON, ON
Ward 2 Councillor Lisa Kearns has advised her residents that the plans to refresh the area surrounding City Hall, including Civic Square, the City Hall front entrance and façade, and nearby streetscapes along Brant Street and Elgin Street have a new completion date. No ward on what that date is.
This is what we have. Federal and provincial funding is covering the bulk of the upgrade.
The project schedule has been revised to allow permits to be secured before tendering and to avoid a winter construction shutdown.
That’s a better reason than the dog ate my homework.
Community input helped guide the creation of a vibrant, accessible, and welcoming civic space in the downtown core. Truth be told, very few people showed up to talk to the consultants who were keen on hearing what people thought.
Different angle of the redesign of the front of City Hall and Civic Square
This development has that feeling that it is going to be plagued with problems; there are some very good Staff on the project – one gets the impression that Council may be where the problems is – even though it has been approved at that level.
The structure no longer meets the needs of the city – there isn’t enough room for the number of staff that have been hired in the past five years.
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What do City staff numbers have to do with the Civic Square renewal? As you have said in this article:
“The structure no longer meets the needs of the city – there isn’t enough room for the number of staff that have been hired in the past five years”.
Are Burlington residents footing the bill for our city staff to enjoy this space on their lunch breaks? or is it being built for the Burlington residents who are forced to pay for it, when it is neither needed or necessary?
Either way, it’s a total waste of our tax payer dollars and it doesnt matter if government grants are helping to pay for it; there is and always will be only one taxpayer. And the money is coming from all of us as taxpayers.
I am hoping that our present mayor and city council are completely abolished and replaced in October 2026. Onward and upward to seeing more accountabilty and more transparency from the COB for all Burlington property taxpayers!