According to their website, Blue Mountain Resort, here in our beautiful Georgian Triangle area and just minutes from Collingwood, Stayner, Wasaga Beach, Thornbury and Meaford, Ontario, is open today! And even more amazing is that the golf course is likely to open this week-end. You could ski in the morning and golf in the afternoon. Blue [...]
The Town of the Blue Mountains has issued a formal Notice of Application and Public Meeting with respect to Blue Mountain Resorts Ltd.’s plans to expand their operations to the far south end of the resort (“the Orchard”.) According to the Notice, issued by the Planning Department of the Town, the resort’s request will be [...]
The challenge by a local businessman to The Blue Mountains’ Short Term Accommodation Bylaw (STAB) has been denied, and costs in the region of $20,000 have been awarded to the town. “Short Term” refers to rentals less than 30 days in length. According to The Blue Mountains’ website: “The Superior Court of Justice – [...]
In this series of blog posts, we’ll reveal the entirely-not-boring-and-surprisingly-interesting results of the latest 2011 Census for the areas of Collingwood, Blue Mountains, Clearview, Wasaga Beach and Meaford. Phew. First of all, the StatCan website tells us: “Canada’s 2011 Census held on May 10, 2011 counted 33,476,688 persons. Between 2006 and 2011, Canada’s population grew [...]
The Blue Mountains has passed a by-law effective March 31, 2012, changing the name of Hurlbert Court in Lora Bay to Hammond Court. Read the by-law and see the map here.
Each year, our local Georgian Triangle Association of REALTORS®, (GTAR) invite a panel of our local municipality’s planners to update our members about current events in their geographic areas. Over a few weeks, we at the The Collingwood Blue Mountain Real Estate Blog are posting summaries from these discussions. Planners Update 2011 Planners Part 2 [...]
Here are some things that are good to know for the next time that someone starts talking to you about the real estate market, you’re going to look real good. You can say things like, “Did you know that 40% of all residential properties sold in Collingwood are condominiums?” I’m happy to report that the [...]
Georgian Gate is a proposed development in The Blue Mountains consisting of 609 detached and semi-detached dwelling units. The municipality has issued Notices of Adoption of an Official Plan Amendment and a Zoning By-law Amendment with respect to the subject lands, shown on the map in the shaded area. The Official Plan Amendment is being forwarded to the [...]
The Blue Mountains website proudly reports that: “At the 2011 Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Annual General Meeting on June 17, 2011, the Town of The Blue Mountains was recognized for its outstanding work on water conservation. The Town received the Cities Initiative award for “Most Progress on Water Conservation”. You can read [...]
Our Collingwood and Blue Mountains region woke up to a smattering of snow this week, on more than one occasion. This picture of a gigantic snowball was taken two days ago, right in the middle of Collingwood! We’ve had another sprinkling of ‘white gold’ this morning as well, although the warmer temperature today has already melted [...]
