Greater Napanee

The daughter of a soldier, she grew up a military brat.

Today, she works for the Tribord Student Transportation Services in Napanee.

where she oversees 645 school bus routes that serve 164 schools and 36,000 students.

She lives in Belleville, about 20 miles away, in a house she's proud to own.

Alrighty.

Next up we have Helen S from Napanee.

So she told us where she's from.

She says, ironically, I'm a baker.

Thank you so much.

That's a great, that's fantastic.

So Helen is a baker in Napanee.

Yeah, Napanee

They're like, oh, how's it going? I said, good.

The guys are up in Napanee.

She's like, oh, we don't have hotels for tonight.

It's like three o'clock.

You better get them hotels.

I don't know how they're doing in Napanee.

I know they asked for, they were in a hotel.

They asked for an Airbnb so that they could do their laundry and stuff.

He knows who he's dealing with.

Napanee and Oshawa boys.

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Thank you to Christina Laurie for that story.

Coming up next, we have Dinah Jansen reading a story from the local journalism initiative reporter for The Kingstonist, Michelle Dorey Forrestel, about the approval of a 545-home subdivision in Greater Napanee.

Thank you, Jesse.

The Town of Greater Napanee has approved the first phase of a residential subdivision that will eventually bring approximately 545 new homes to the municipality, supported by an estimated $5 million in developer-funded infrastructure improvements that could also open the door to further development east of town.

The approval granted during Council's regular meeting on Tuesday, October 13th allows the developer of Springside Meadows to proceed toward registering the first phase of the subdivision consisting of 24 detached residential lots and six townhouse blocks.

The larger development, a collaboration between Best Developments Canada and the BASH Developments Group, is planned to include 130 single detached homes, 212 townhomes, 38 medium-density residential units, and 165 apartments, along with parkland, stormwater management facilities, and municipal roads.

Nob said similar arrangements have been used for other residential developments, including Westbridge Estates and the Richmond Park Drive area.

Councillors also discussed the rising costs associated with residential development and whether the municipality could do more to improve housing affordability.

Is showing the sheets like a condition of building? Is that like a prerequisite?

I don't know if the sheets are a prerequisite or that's just part of the deal, but maybe you can research, you know, up in the Napanee area where I grew up, they newlywed, maybe it took a couple weekends, I don't know, but the entire Amish community, men, women, boys, anybody male for the most part, you get together, everybody brings wood and nails and hammers and they build you a house and a barn for you to start your family.

And I don't think, I think that they can't use tractors either.

Like, they have to still do it with horses.

How long is the drive to Orillia from, from Cornwall?

I think it's, like, five and a half hours, but they had to stop in Napanee to pick up a machine, so let's call it six and a half, seven hours.

It's...

I don't know.