In fact there are more like 300 townhouses, which occupy a significant area of the original plan, and there is also a lot of open space. One can argue numbers all day (I won't), but that place feels dead almost all of the time, except for school recess. It's an interesting lesson.

I was touring the area with the late George Baird and I made the same comment. I said, perhaps it’s not dense enough. His reply: “You have to remember, Alex, in those days ‘density’ was a dirty word.”

Exactly this. Plus: why is the retail all oriented toward the main streets, which will be traffic sewers? Retail streets that aren’t really, and pedestrian passageways that aren’t really. Cars everywhere and oceans of wasted space. Toronto city urban design in a nutshell.

And an explanation of this proposal:

My column on this (gift link): https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90421fe8336a64eba31e25ebdc75907f58944e66d4620d38c666cff8f6a94599/VEAXEBZFCRBMVGHJQLLOCDZGFI Key points about the size, which I and my colleague Jeff Gray have already shared on social media. It’s smaller: Second image is...

This is a bad decision. Instead of retaining the existing fire hall and making it part of the park – perhaps with a restaurant, as exists in more civilized places – it will now be demolished. That same park will now get twice as big, allowing people to walk down through some trees to reach the...

As much as we need new housing, this is bad news. It is locking in a vision for the area that makes no sense. The entire McCleary District plan is fatally flawed. Too many roads, massively overscaled roads, far too much open space, the nonsense PIC idea which will turn into self-storage or...

The Parks capital budget this year is over $400-million. There absolutely is money to do a proactive design and capital plan for one of the most important parks in the city. They don't do this kind of thing, but they could and should.

This is not good. I had thought the consultation was overkill for a redesign of some paths. Turns out it will be a significant rebuild - paths, benches, plazas, wayfinding. But only of certain pieces of the park, without any reconsideration of the overall spatial arrangement or uses. There...

Hot garbage.

More people for one of the densest neighbourhoods in the city, with few amenities, which just lost the Science Centre. Thousands of apartment dwellers get to deal with construction and a loss of open space that the city would never consider allowing in a house neighbourhood.

Ha, so the Westons sold high and are now buying it back at a discount.

This is categorically false. None of the government consultant reports even claim that it was not feasible to keep the building open. In the short term, they claim it would have cost $34-million to do critical roof repairs at 770 Don Mills. Instead: multiple moves, storage of the collection...