2029 is the absolute earliest that any ToC site will begin construction at Front & Parliament.

The older and much taller buildings further away from Broadview TTC station -- sitting behind a "2024 new build SIX (6) storey" -- will never stop being a sadly hilarious example of how layers upon layers of flawed / pandering policy has contributed to Toronto's Housing Crisis...

CentreCourt don't even have this site on their "active" project map today - https://centrecourt.com/projects/ Even with the recent HST-waivers, etc - does 813-units of new-build RENTAL development make sense on that very-expensive development location in Spring 2024..??

First question, NO. Second question, City can Expropriate at "fair market value" - just like Metrolinx does --- BUT the City does that much less frequently than the Province. METROLINX example -...

You can park overnight at that Green-P for FREE if you have a local “Resident Parking Permit” for the nearby streets. Nearby streets south of Danforth are lined with parked cars and few driveways/garages. Therefore, street parking passes will be approx. $24/month for most vehicles.

The pop-up was fairly busy for a daytime meeting in a Church basement on a Thursday during March Break. Almost all of the chatter was from adjacent homeowners about “loss of parking” and “overlook” from the new apartments.

Marlin Spring are obligated to deliver 61 Affordable Units under the land-deal with CreateTO. Which specific project were they "trying to CoA them out of"..?

Did they maintain the same "Affordable Housing" ratio when the site increased in height and units..? How many "Affordable Housing" units - are in the new agreement - and for how many years of affordability..?

The City of Toronto almost never needs to BUY land. The City and it's agencies are absolutely swimming in wasted "Lazy Land", like these Green-P sites. However much I support Melissa on her "Buy Old Low-Rent Apartment Buildings" (eg. MURA) point-of-view - for sites like the one below --...

Public meeting (in-person) last night was mostly about local “loss of parking” concerns from the BIA, etc.

Yes, this East York site opened back in late-Fall 2022. https://torontoobserver.ca/2022/12/06/modular-housing-seniors-east-york/ Interesting to note that this site was announced on exactly the same day in 2021 -- as the still delayed "Willowdale Modular" project.

The City has long multi-month pre-meetings with Infrastructure Ontario, SvN, etc -- before these public documents are ever released. City Planning has been in-the-loop for a long-time.

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WEB VERSION of that story - https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/03/05/toronto-looking-to-build-more-housing-on-city-owned-parking-lots/

Spoke at Committee of Adjustment in Scarborough today in SUPPORT of some Minor-Variances that now take the site up to 155 total rental apartments, including another 11 "extra" affordable rental units. Some of the members of Committee asked questions about "How this can be considered a minor...

That is very interesting... and underlines the questions about why the city-owned daycare lands are not under consideration for inclusion..?

Yes, Infrastructure Ontario has said in some of the earlier Ontario Line ToC meetings that they are "limited to the lands that Metrolinx agrees to surplus". They say that they neither have the power nor the mandate at IO to make ToC sites larger / better by expropriating additional adjacent...

Of the 106 units, 27 are replacement of existing units. 79 Units are net new. Proposed unit-mix includes 37 larger units at 2 or 3 Bedrooms. "Houselink and Mainstay Community Housing is Toronto’s leading non-profit supportive housing agency. We currently manage nearly 60 residential...

…because of how shallow the 1960’s cut and cover Subway tunnels are running just north of Danforth. The parking-lots and parks are just about all those tunnels were engineered to support above them. This image is of the tunnel depth between Main and Chisholm. That stretch of the line is very...