Really unfortunate! Something really needs to be to the CoA! Minor variances shouldn’t be a bureaucratic process! This isn’t a 5 storey building, never mind 30 storeys. The community should definitely be aware of any new development, but if a minor variance application meets the Official Plan...

This is good to see. Although as another commenter on the thread needed to clarify, this isn’t necessarily transit signal priority, but visualizing when going through via car is not allowed (which I’m sure most of you all know). Good to see needed attention is being put to this.

Never had it but that sucks. Wanted to try it someday. Is this due to the Ontario Line? Or did they specify why they’re closing?

https://transittoronto.ca/archives/weblog/2024/02/15-ttc_making.shtml Thankfully, it seems they‘re slowly removing the slow zones up until early March. Still, I agree and it shows what the TTC has degraded to. I was on it yesterday and definitely felt this between Chester and Castle Frank on...

They recently modernized the “public realm” as you get off the bridge from Victoria Park Station. This was taken back in November while it was nearing completion. Taken today.

Was walking by this site yesterday and saw this. Not sure how long this sign was here…

For this area, I’d say it’s more along Eglinton. When the LRT is complete, that’s where I think you will see things changing. Not 100% disagreeing, however…. a lot of what you said can be said about East York as well. Mediocre architecture and residential side streets lacking trees are...

Additional photos I took today along the Eglinton Hill BIA, the northern end of the neighbourhood I took photos of in the post above. Definitely could use some work but seems to be improving based on what I saw today and previous posts on this thread.

I hardly ever visit York, but today, I decided to explore it via TTC and walking. Although, I mostly just walked around the neighbourhood southwest of Keele & Eglinton, north of Rogers. Living in East York, it’s kind of cool to see our west end equivalent. Also, on this forum, York is said to be...

What do you all think of these new wayfinding signs? Personally, I REALLY love these! They’re like highway signs for cyclists! Although, based on other ones scattered throughout the city, you can tell that for a quite a while, the standards for these were still “work in progress“. Earlier this...

When I was younger, I thought anything north of the Don/DVP (via both Don Mills and Millwood) was in North York lol. Thorncliffe Park is probably the only part of East York that doesn’t feel like an “inner Toronto” neighbourhood, and much more akin to something you’d find in North York...

Spending a good chunk of my childhood living in the Topham Park, Clairlea always felt like an eastern extension of TP. In my previous post, I was gonna say that I’d consider the inner Toronto/outer Toronto border to continue south of VP to St. Clair, but honestly, Clairlea is in the grey. As you...

I’d actually say Highway 27 is one of the few arterials in the City that’s not a freeway but actually operates as a “Road” (If we’re going by the StrongTowns criteria). It has at grade intersections, but very few side street intersections and property intersections (although even then, those are...

Was walking south on Victoria Park from Eglinton to St. Clair today. Obviously, I crossed the North York/East York boundary (and of course, Scarborough is on the other side of VP). One of things I’ve always noticed on this stretch is as soon as you get south of Parma Court, side street...

Well well well…. I’m speechless https://globalnews.ca/news/10116918/ontario-toronto-new-deal-doug-ford-olivia-chow/

Was reading the 1994 East York Official Plan at the Dawes Library a few weeks back. Apparently, this is where the proposed East York Centre was gonna be. I guess this *sort of* brings that to fruition (although probably won’t ever be recognized as “downtown” East York given the civic centre...

To add to my previous comment, the subdivision where I lived from 2003-07 was more of an infill development rather than the traditional “taking over farmland in the outskirts“ type of development, though its design and the housing types is more akin to those. Basically your typical Ontario...

Those are nice! Even a cafe there. Aesthetically, this is nicer than Mount Pleasant imo. In the early years of my life, I lived in a car centric sub division near Port Union and the 401 in Scarborough (I was born in ‘02, lived hear between ‘03 and ‘07). I remember the later years quite vividly...

Yeah, what I had in mind was more “what if” rather than “let’s do this”. In general, it seems tampering with municipal services can result inefficiencies and higher cost (not all cases though, but that definitely seems to be a big criticism of “the mega city”.) I saw something mentioned on...

Interesting. If amalgamation never happened, what if this took place: (Old) Toronto - Becomes single-tier Etobicoke - Your proposal along with the Town of Woodbridge north of it Scarborough - Joins Durham Region (Maybe of Woodbridge joined Peel, parts of Markham east of Highway 48 could...