Bodies generally arrive from hospitals. They are stored in freezers. The morticians do their business to make the bodies presentable/preservable. They have the services and viewings. The bodies are then taken to the cemertary or crematorium. Nothing remains here. As, in this case, neither does the building itself.

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Scanning through 2018 Campaign Contribution for Cllr Filion (note: maximum allowable limit increased from $750 in 2014 to $1,200 in 2018):

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On October 16, 2018, during the last Municipal Election - Edward Sorbara of "M3H 1E1" (Outside this Local Ward) contributed the maximum allowable $1,200 to local Councillor John Filion's re-election campaign; Note: Councillor John Filion's Ward 18 Willowdale has postal code M2M, M2N & M2R
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On October 31, 2019 - Sorbara Group officially submitted this 6150 Yonge St development proposal for 14-storey Mid-Rise with 521 units 5.68FSI Density north of Cummer/Drewy (4.5FSI maximum within NorthYorkCentreSecondaryPlan)

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sunnyraytoronto said:
Scanning through 2018 Campaign Contribution for Cllr Filion (note: maximum allowable limit increased from $750 in 2014 to $1,200 in 2018):

Elections Financial Disclosure - Accessing City Hall | City of Toronto

Elections Financial Disclosure
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On October 16, 2018, during the last Municipal Election - Edward Sorbara of "M3H 1E1" (Outside this Local Ward) contributed the maximum allowable $1,200 to local Councillor John Filion's re-election campaign; Note: Councillor John Filion's Ward 18 Willowdale has postal code M2M, M2N & M2R
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- a Candidate can choose to accept or reject any campaign contribution

On October 31, 2019 - Sorbara Group officially submitted this 6150 Yonge St development proposal for 14-storey Mid-Rise with 521 units 5.68FSI Density north of Cummer/Drewry (4.5FSI maximum within NorthYorkCentreSecondaryPlan)

Development Applications

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Well, two years later and the building is not approved, so that money hasn't sped up the acceptance of this one either. I agree it doesn't look good to throw the maximum at the local Councillor's campaign, but we're not seeing obvious benefit being derived by Sorbara for the two Yonge properties you've highlighted (that I've seen so far). Happy enough to see you doing this, anyway!

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Well, two years later and the building is not approved, so that money hasn't sped up the acceptance of this one either. I agree it doesn't look good to throw the maximum at the local Councillor's campaign, but we're not seeing obvious benefit being derived by Sorbara for the two Yonge properties you've highlighted (that I've seen so far). Happy enough to see you doing this, anyway!

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Generally, within North York Centre Secondary Plan area,... very specific on maximum allowable height (100m) and density (4.5FSI or 5.98FSI for prime lot with direct subway connections). Both Sorbara sites in North York are north of Cummer/Drewry and hence outside of North York Centre Secondary Plan, here Yonge Street North Final Draft/Secondary Plan applies but right now mainly site by site and less black and white. And it's really City Planning Staff who approves or rejects development applications based on the technical,... and if it fits within Zoning and the Official Plan. The local Councillor has very little say in approving or rejecting a development application,... other than supporting or going against Staff Report. And if the local Councillor is against Staff Report then better state Why???

The local Councillor technically represents the Community. The local Councillor role is to:
- hold Community Consultation meetings on development application; really to rile up the locals to give the Councillor more leverage in negotiation with the Developer!
- Negotiate the Section 37 Community Benefit and Section 42 Parkland Dedication - these are the 2 components "for the Community"! They could be on-site, off-site and/or cash-in-lieu

Usually Section 37 Community Benefit is about 2-5% of project value,.... RioCan YongeSheppardCentre was initially 10% because Cllr Filion had RioCan over a barrel - based on 99-lease of retail space for non-profit daycare and family service community space (since then RioCan's initial $200m cost increased to $300m due to additions and retail lease price has dropped due to Covid). Some mid-rise in MidTown get as high as 15% on Section 37 Community Benefits!!! It all depends on how well the Councillor negotiates or **is willing to negotiate** on behalf of the Community.

In Toronto, all Development Charges & Fees averages to about $76,800 (about 11 per cent of the cost); this includes Section 37 Community Benefit, Section 42 Parkland Dedication; ultimately these Developer Charges & Fees are passed onto the Buyers!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/rea...er-development-charges-pits-toronto-province/

Thus, when you see Developer contribute to re-election campaign,.... it's not really about a development application getting approved or rejected at City Planning level (that's really up to City Planning Staff) VS OMB,.... but really about the amount and type of Section 37 Community Benefit and Section 42 Parkland Dedication that's in the Final Report!
 
Of course it's up to Planning Staff to recommend for or against a planning application being approved by City Council, but ultimately it is not up to Planning whether an application does get approved. That is up to Council, and the local Councillor can and will on occasion recommend to their colleagues to act in opposition to the report. It's rare, but it happens. Planning was against the Massey Tower, for example, (it didn't fit within their angular planes and separation distance guidelines mostly IIRC), but owing to the community benefits the City would receive for improvements to Massey Hall, Wong-Tam championed it and Council ignored Planning's recommendations to reject. Were you to end up at Council with a recommendation from Planning to reject but had an enthusiastic Councillor, I don't know if you'd want to be seen to have donated the maximum to that Councillor's election campaign and appeared to have bought that person off… so yes, donations can have the appearance of a direct impact in regards to approval.

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I don't know if you'd want to be seen to have donated the maximum to that Councillor's election campaign and appeared to have bought that person off…
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$1,200 can buy a councillor off? Really doubt that and to me that amount isn't even bad optics.
 
Any updates on when this project plans to go to sales/ construction. Looks good on the rendering. Sorbara did good with beacon.( I believe their last project)
 
Final Report, approval recommended, heading to the next meeting of NYCC:


Height appears to have been nipped as its listed at 13S, height is also showing 44M

Parkland dedication is off-site here:

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This is an extremely logical way to expand parkland, by growing an existing park to a more functional footprint!

I have highlighted the properties below:

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The off-site Section 42 Parkland Dedication is interesting in that:
- as shown above, the two lots are surrounded by park trees - that the City will not cut down; corner lot at intersection - so it's not like they'll build Children playground here
- more so, previous revisions of Yonge Street North Planning-Study / soon to be Secondary Plan had the single residential house block directly south of Sorbara proposal (Goulding Ave to Homewood Ave, Yonge St to Lariviere) converted to new Park space - as seen here (Sorbara proposal in red):

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6150 YONGE ST Ward 18 - North York District ►View All Properties Site Plan application for the proposal of a mid rise mixed use building that comprises an entire block along Yonge Street between Pleasant Avenue and Goulding Avenue. The proposed building would have 521 residential...
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CityPlanning's wanted this entire block to become park-space so it'll:
- become a green gateway to Goulding Park Community Centre which is currently hidden from Yonge Street
- link Goulding Park with Centre Park on other side of Yonge Street to form a larger greenspace for Community Events
- At Community Consultation meetings, many long-time local residents on this block objected to their properties becoming park-space. When City Staff stated - "well, if you don't sell to Developer who'll convey your property to City for parkland,... then City will expropriate it!",... this upset many local residents and local Councillor Filion eventually promised "nobody's going to lose their home over this proposed park block"
- Recent revision of Yonge Street North Planning-Study / soon to be Secondary Plan does NOT have this park block - which means more land for redevelopment!
 
Northern Light said:
Final Report, approval recommended, heading to the next meeting of NYCC:


Height appears to have been nipped as its listed at 13S, height is also showing 44M

Parkland dedication is off-site here:

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This is an extremely logical way to expand parkland, by growing an existing park to a more functional footprint!

I have highlighted the properties below:

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Those two houses for the expansion of Goulding Park are currently being demolished.
 
A new rendering was added to the database. The minor info changes are taken from the arch plan via Minor variance.

The storey count changed from 14-storey to 13-storey. The height changed from 53.34m to 50.49m. Total units changed from 521 units to 578 units. Finally, the total parking space increased from 307 parking to 314 parking.

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New stats updated in the database. Unit count changed from 578 units to 635 units. Height changed from 50.49m to 51.89m. Total car parking changed from 314 parking to 315 parking. The total bike parking increased from 595 bike parking to 613 bike parking.

Stats taken from the arch plan via minor variance.

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