Used 931 YONGE site as a background location for the opening story on CTV NATIONAL news at 11:00 PM last night...

All depends on who the "we" are, I guess...? Our Affordable Housing volunteers are strong supporters of both converting well-located, transit-served sites currently zoned as 'Neighbourhoods' 🟨 (low rise residential) into to 'Apartment Neighbourhoods' 🟧 (much higher density), and we also advise...

Usually, we try not "over-think" the purpose of these TMU SURP studios given the limited time-period the 3rd & 4th year Planning Students have available to work on the project(s). Four storeys is silly short ✅Correct, yet that was the Maximum "as of right" height allowed under the by-laws...

Summary Note : Ontario Line (Proposed) - 2021

Continued, additional materials about that GREEN-P site on Denison from our TMU SURP Student team's work back in 2021 - MASSING ALTERNATIVES (Mass-Timber / Rapid Modular) - CONT'D Non-Housing Considerations IMPORTANT to note that this TMU SURP studio project was completed...

Here's some additional materials about that GREEN-P site on Denison from our TMU SURP Student team's work back in 2021 - HISTORY CONTEXT MASSING ALTERNATIVES (Mass-Timber / Rapid Modular)

...and the Provincial Liberal Leader - and one of her MPPs from further along the Ontario Line.

Talked to the local Federal MP too...

It was the Greek Independence Parade on the Danforth today, so we were neck-deep in politicians from all levels of government -- which is always a good opportunity to go and chat with them directly about the Ontario Line, Transit-Oriented Developments -- and Affordable Housing...

Can anyone local please post some updated / current photos of this STATION rebuild site under the Hydro lines (April 2024), please..? Thx!

Full PAPE ToC meeting slides - https://engageio.ca/sites/default/files/2024-04/240328_OL_Pape_OpenHouse1.pdf

SOUTH block -

NORTH block -

Some selected Virtual public-meeting slides...

From our POV - Nahid should have been minimum 2x or 3x taller, what it represents is Toronto's calcified legacy of minor, incremental progress delivered at a glacier-like pace. In 2024, 6-storeys sets a terrible precedent for the rest of Broadview, as did the whole Broadview plan in proximity...

Thanks! PDF Letter of support w/ details on the Affordable Rental deal - https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/te/comm/communicationfile-178567.pdf Will post the deputation video & Q/A with the Councillor later tonight.

...we often hear - "This should be 100% Affordable Rental housing" as a polite-cover from residents' groups who actually want the site to deliver ZERO (0) units of new affordable rental housing. It is a obstruction-method known as "killing a project with kindness" -- we cannot say sure if that...

Selected PDF slides from last week's virtual meeting with Infrastructure Ontario - https://engageio.ca/sites/default/files/2024-03/Lawrence%20East%20Virtual%20Public%20Open%20House.pdf

Blank slate…

This assembly is going much slower than is supposed to happen on a Modular Housing project. Things taking weeks, that usually take days..? No idea why this site is now approaching 2-MONTHS on just the on-site assembly part of the modular construction..? On other sites at this kind of scale...