A literal roadless, asphaltless junkyard full of junk is located there right now. Give me more spandrel, please, some pedestrianized, quality retail-level zone and maybe even an overpass to the other side of the tracks please. I'll take spandrel and just about anything over a junkyard any day...

...say vents should be the same colour that is already present on the structure; why red?

"More likely" isn't really a hard solid evidence to build your case upon. There are plenty of places in the developed world where such sights are extremely common (hence the 'low effort' remark). Take aforementioned London, UK for example. London has a very similar housing shortage/crisis as we...

Who do you think makes these custom made clothes for them? Rich people order custom made clothes from those very same luxury designer flagships in Yorkville. Every celebrity has a custom-made designer piece of attire. Be it for Met Gala, Oscars red carpet or some other event like that, it has...

'Suburban wealth' has nothing on Rosedale, Forest Hill, Briddle Path, South Hill, Younge & Eglinton, etc aka urban wealth. Hell, even Yorkville itself, not just anyone can afford to live there. I used to go to Yorkville almost every weekend in post-covid times in warmer (better) days. I've seen...

Wym "stabby"? That's Yorkville, Mink Mile, etc, etc.

Wait, are they going to use the parking lot space or not? Such a waste of valuable space if stays a parking lot!

Isn't that the time when they levelled old city blocks and parks to build some parking lots and Gardiner Expressway? Yeah, I don't think our generation can do anything worse than they already did...

It's a city planning issue. Having lived in many neighbourhoods, I can safely say that most of Toronto "proper" is walkable/transitable enough to not own a car. Boroughs... not that much, but areas around ttc stations and other transit are fine. Suburbs, on the other hand, are boring, car...

I don't think that this is the case, King Street Transit Priority Corridor not only mentions inability to park directly on King but also inability to take left turns, so underground parking entrance directly from King street is highly unlikely. If you look closely on the construction photo you...

All you have to do to make an investment like that is to be born in the right year. If you made it and bought real estate when it was cheap, congrats, you made it, take your cheap-cheap equity line of credit and go 'invest'. The One is on the pricier side, but if you bought pre-construction and...

You quite literally pay for bottle aging. When it comes to, let's say, Bordeaux, we're looking at minimum of 10 years of aging, the price increases for each passing year.

Are almost permanent tents in Allen Gardens count as 'shadowing'? Asking for a friend.

Yes, correct! You have noticed this example of double standards and hypocrisy from the counsellors that I was trying to bring up! They fight the easy fight about some shadow cast somewhere and some big development but they keep silent when questionable decisions come from the government and...

AshJesse Ketchum is about 800 meters away from Yonge-Bloor intersection if you use a diagonal on a map. How shadowed will it be? They put a homeless shelter near a school in my neighbourhood and nobody bats an eye, but there may be some shadow on a school yard at 5 PM because of some building...

Oh noes, a tall building downtown shadows a front porch of some out of touch suburbanite types who didn't notice that they don't live in a suburb anymore! We must cancel all developments in the city immediately and go back to being a medium sized city or better yet a small cozy town where...

So why should they do charity? Because you asked nicely? You're not going to go bankrupt if you rent out basement in your house for 300$ a month or give it for free for someone homeless either. I mean, from what I understand you're doing pretty good yourself, why should Mizrahi or any other...

Modest? Is 2 million property modest to you? Take a look at the prices in the area, most of them aren't even for sale, worst houses that need serious repairs are like 1.5 million. If that's modest to you, you're even further from average people and their problems than Mr. Layton here. How...

It's easier to demonize developers (who actually build housing btw) than yellow belt NIMBYies who live in a single family houses in the city and oppose every single development they can. So the councillors do just that whereas ridiculous re-zoning application process is never addressed although...

Okay, this Mike Layton person's dwelling in Christie Pits, how much space does it take and how many people are living there now? How many people can potentially live there and how many affordable units can be built in its place? I bet if we convert his whole neighbourhood from some seriously...