My understanding was that the City has enacted a new comprehensive zoning bylaw (569-2013), and that the only areas of the city that this does not cover are those where a development application had been commenced prior to the enactment. That being said, I don't think that this bylaw varies too...

Just a note to the mods... this project is being led by a landscape architecture firm called Public Work. ERA is a sub-consultant.

Well it's simple. As a Job Creator (TM), I naturally work 5000x harder than any of the people I employ in the low-wage jobs that I create each and every day. If my employees were paid some sort of preposterous minimum wage, well, I might as well just stop creating jobs and go work a minimum...

This is the truck (centre, with plow on the front end) that the guy was driving - slightly larger than the toyota trecel in the video you posted. Note the garbage truck at the right of the frame. The driver used his garbage truck to box in the snow plow. The ETF truck behind boxed in the...

Not true. The design review panel provides design advice that informs planning staff's final report to Council. From the City of Toronto DRP website: "The Design Review Panel is set up as an advisory body to City staff, and takes place as an additional stream of consultation within the...

A designated heritage building has legal status under the Ontario Heritage Act. The Act contains criteria that City staff apply to a building in order to assess if it is worthy of a heritage designation. City Staff prepare a report on this assessment and Council approves or denies heritage...

That isn't quite what happened... The Executive Committee has authorized the City Manager to conduct public consultations across Toronto, and to report on the results of these consultations, along with more information on a recommended location, alternate locations, revenues generated from...

My suspicion is that the casino or nothing argument is indeed a bluff. Oxford purchased the convention centre in October 2011, prior to the Provincial government's announcement in January 2012 that they wanted to rationalize province-wide gambling and encourage the development of a casino in...

So I guess that means we can look forward to G+C monstrosities stretching up Yonge from Gerrard to Bloor. F*cking wonderful.

On the topic of redistributing s. 37 funds, there's case law from the OMB that says there must be a "reasonable nexus" between the development site and the community facilities funded by s.37 monies. This usually means that the community facilities must be geographically proximate to the...

I fear that the unnamed developer buying up sites on Yonge is likely Canderel - I've noticed a number of for lease signs on Yonge storefronts with Canderel logos on them.

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k10: I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I think the quotes I've pulled don't support your interpretation. As for heritage buildings on Yonge between Dundas and Gerrard, I think that those that merit designation should be, however, I don't think that an HCD is an appropriate tool...

Found a picture of Muslim men washing their feet + Regent Park Aquatic Centre has foot washing stations and therefore Regent Park Aquatic Centre is probably a mosque = ridiculous

This is a fundamental miss-reading of the report. - There's no money for streetscape improvements except through Section 37 as new development is approved "Ultimately, City Planning believes that the development review process is the logical tool for implementing many of the larger projects...

I took a look through the City's heritage property inventory and none of the properties listed in the development app came up. My initial assumption was that the two houses (7 & 9 Gloucester) were the buildings that would be retained.

Even if you don't want to interpret the spill way as park space there is still a fairly significantly sized park located at the west edge of cousins quay. It's shaded green on the phase one map. A quick perusal of the legend shows that that shade of green = "dedicated park land". This happens in...

The dock wall in front of their plant will be maintained. "Completion of the Phasing", or phase 4 happens only after Lafarge moves, and really consists of naturalizing the river's edge where the Lafarge plant is.

First off, I think there are a lot of important elements to this plan that still need lots of public oversight/discussion. That being said, having been to all of the public meetings in this process, I think the new river option does a pretty good job of maintaining most of the key elements of...