For those that are new to the City (and most demonstrate that in this thread), you don't build a city by running around looking for old real estate, knocking it down and shoving in tall buildings with 500 square foot condos. If you want evidence of how ugly that is, just look at Liberty...

If you can't read, then get your ass through high-school first. Go away. If you don't like what's being posted here, then go back to farmville.

If you don't like Toronto being the City that it is, then you can move. Leslieville isn't downtown. You missed that part. Were you born on a farm? Learn how a city works before making stupid comments like that.

The way I see it, yes it is true. The previous owners applied for a height increase, which they didn't get. They wouldn't be destroying a building that's 3 floors to put up another building that's 5 floors of the same height. Both the Worklofts and Flatiron plans were revised. See...

I've mentioned the same thing several times, yet nobody wants to actually read it. So, there is no point anyway. BTW, Filmic Lane is East of Boston. Boston Ave continues one block North of Dundas. And what's so special about 12 floors? Like I keep asking, if "5 meters", regardless of how...

Worklofts is already built. It is not 11 floors. Also, you need to have another look from the area itself. You're missing a lot. A street and a parking lot.

Appropriate for the area? Name one other 12 floor building going in that close to residential east of the Don Valley. Is that a big enough area for you? Like I said, even locations along much more major streets, closer to downtown, aren't given that height. I think you're just ignoring that...

The building that stands there applied for a height increase, and was denied. It is 3 floors. Regardless if you knock it down and put up 5 floors, it still has a recognized height limit. That limit is also for the building that is there at the moment, the farthest from the townhouses to the...

It is a complete sop. What's currently regulated to 3 floors, somehow wants to expand to 12 floors. It will be the highest building in the area, besides the other tall ugly residential building that is two blocks to the west. Nothing on Carlaw is this tall. Nothing along King Street, west of...

I launched myself off a swing into the gravel to wake up with 20 girls around me. I keep looking for swings these days.

Ya that SWO day, although I was up Parry Sound ways, was just plain stupid. We couldn't get cool, even in the shade. And I'm quite cool to begin with. <snicker>

I like the van.

I bet it's filled with our previous bad mayors. I wonder where they shipped all that water to.

Anna, you rock! I used to have my adventures down in that ravine (the childhood type). I'm going to check out that blog as well. While we lived there, in the past 10 years, the main St. Clair bridge was redone as well, taking out the bike lanes. So very Rob Ford.

Amazing map. So at the top right, is St. Clair Avenue at Yonge. The "Good Water Supply" is the David Balfour Park, which is a water system at the top of the hill. I grew up there for 30 years (I am still growing up) since I was 8 years old. The bridge, which was mere feet from our house on...

There is a theory that it can only last so many generations. I think that is set to 3. As well, families like that inject money into some business schools to help continue the legacy. Desperate measures. As it stands, the Rogers are losing their grip on the "professional" front of their...

LOL I should have introduced the two. I also went to school with Di and Cliff. My Dad used to do business with the last Hatch at HW. Rogers was in a different position being a communications company. He knew everybody wanted a Canadian business to handle that. And the saving loan was...

I grew up with his son, and spent many a vacation with the family and close friends. I admired Ted Rogers. His son, not so much. I even admired his grandfather even more. The bank was not one of Ted's ideas. As for "betting the farm", that was true. But that put him in position where a...

And now we have the proposed Rogers Bank. Like it isn't one now.