City of Waterloo council summary May 11, 2026

The council summary below provides a snapshot of the major items presented at Monday’s council meeting. The council meeting webcast is available on the City of Waterloo YouTube page. Please refer to the minutes for an official record of the meeting.

Waterloo continues to address road safety in school zones

City of Waterloo staff have developed an action plan to install traffic calming measures in four locations that used to have automated speed enforcement cameras. The four locations to be addressed in 2026 are:

St. Nicholas Catholic Elementary School

St. Agnes Catholic Elementary School

Keats Way Public School

MacGregor Senior Public School

The road safety measures include speed humps at the entry points to school zones and raised pedestrian crossings at existing school crossing guard locations. The new road safety construction is supported with funding to be provided by the Province through Phase 1 of the Road Safey Initiatives Fund. 

Waterloo approves Community Planning Permit System for streamlined development along Erb Street Corridor

City of Waterloo Council approved implementation of the Community Planning Permit By-law, enacting the Community Planning Permit System (CPPS) to help more homes be built faster in the Erb Street corridor. The CPPS, part of Waterloo’s Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) actions, is a streamlined process that combines zoning amendment, minor variance and site plan control into a single application and approval.

Benefits include a single by-law to control land use, a single permit application, and one decision from the approval authority (instead of separate processes and approvals). The new Community Planning Permit By-law also allows for other community benefits and controls not currently available to the City under the zoning by-law, such as urban design, landscaping, vegetation protection and site alteration.

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