Kerr and Speers is a great location for height and density in Oakville - not far from the GO station/highway access and a safe distance from the more established low-rise residential neighbourhoods to the south. I hope Empire goes for more and gets it...

It's no secret that the site is for sale through a prominent real estate brokerage (CB). Not sure of the current status though.

Hunker down, this looks like it's going to get worse before it gets better... It seems hard to believe that we'll get any deeper than the US or UK have though...

Good question Glen. I don't have any evidence and I couldn't argue that current DCs cover precisely 100% of new development's share of costs. However, the 2004 DC by-law should have addressed this and if it didn't I haven't heard anyone show that it didn't. Some on council have argued that...

They've been talking about this since I was knee-high to a grasshopper but maybe now that Build Toronto has been formed we will finally see something here. With Canadian Tire set to move and the complete underutilization of the TTC yard there could be something exciting here. Mixed-use would...

DCs are supposed to fund growth not rotting infrastructure and a city that has failing finances. The current DC proposal has new development bearing the cost of the majority of budget items that are related to current residents, not strictly growth. If DCs go up 230% for high-rise projects...

OMB Decision for 2200 Lake Shore (northwest corner of Lake Shore/Park Lawn): http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/e%2Ddecisions/pl040456%20%20pl050003%5F%232919.pdf It's an interesting read if you get the time. I can't find the link to the final staff report to give it some perspective. 36 Park...

For the record, the Menkes site at the corner of Park Lawn and Lake Shore was acquired by Onni Group from Vancouver.

Whatever you may think of the OMB, this is a sad and embarrassing statement about the quality and character of some of our City councillors. Juvenile and unproductive.