{"id":17287,"date":"2016-02-22T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17287"},"modified":"2016-02-20T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T16:57:05","slug":"halt-development-charges-for-new-hotels-thomson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/22\/halt-development-charges-for-new-hotels-thomson\/","title":{"rendered":"Halt development charges for new hotels: Thomson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/02\/01\/halt-development-charges-for-new-hotels-thomson\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls and Niagara Region should put a moratorium on development charges for new hotels in the Honeymoon Capital, says Wayne Thomson.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran city councillor said the time is right for the municipality and Region to take advantage of Americans flooding back to Niagara Falls thanks in large part to a favourable currency exchange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that there\u2019s an opportunity here and this is not something that\u2019s simple \u2014 it would take a lot of effort on behalf of (Mayor Jim Diodati) and the staff, working with the Region,\u201d said Thomson during a recent council meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls and Niagara Region should put a moratorium on development charges for new hotels in the Honeymoon Capital, says Wayne Thomson. The veteran city councillor said the time is right for the municipality and Region to take advantage of Americans flooding back to Niagara Falls thanks in large part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,2,601,49],"tags":[613,10534,603,41,431,845],"class_list":["post-17287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-city-councillor","tag-development-charges","tag-jim-diodati","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-region","tag-wayne-thomson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}