ADRM said:
It's really great to see the "do the waterfront properly" trend extending outside downtown Toronto. Excited to see this come to pass.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...hat-avoids-torontos-mistakes/article33419293/

Land sale brings Mississauga closer to a waterfront that avoids Toronto’s mistakes
Dakshana Bascaramurty

The Globe and Mail

Published Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016 7:44PM EST

Last updated Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016 7:46PM EST

With purchase of a key piece of land in Mississauga’s Port Credit area, the city is one step closer to realizing its vision for a waterfront that takes its cues from urban planning in Copenhagen, Chicago and Paris and avoids the condo-clogged look along Toronto’s shores.

This week, Imperial Oil announced the sale of a 73-acre property in Port Credit to a consortium of developers who will redevelop it for public use. This land would be converted into a space for a major waterfront park, mid-rise and affordable housing, mixed-use development and a large academic or research campus, according to plans developed by the city.

News of this key land sale comes at a time when Mississauga is moving forward with other ambitious waterfront plans, including development of another stretch in Port Credit owned by the Canada Lands Co. In September, construction began at the former Lakeview Generating Station, a 250-acre site that will be redeveloped for $60-million into a 1.5-kilometre beach, wetlands, residential and commercial properties and trails. They’ll be at what Mississauga Ward 1 councillor Jim Tovey describes as “human scale.”

While the developers who have purchased the parcel of land could make a tidy profit building high-rise condominiums and selling the lakefront view to wealthy buyers as has been done in Toronto, Mr. Tovey said those types of towers only belong in the city core.

He was moved by the work of renowned Danish architect Jans Gehl, who found that a mother could make eye contact with her child on the street from six storeys up, but not seven.

“Nobody out here likes tall condos,” said Mr. Tovey, who has led efforts for a sustainable, mid-rise city waterfront. “If we have to look at something, it has to earn the sky.”

When Imperial Oil put out a request for proposals for the land, Mr. Tovey and the city negotiated with them to include a master-plan framework that had been developed by the community during four years of consultations.

“We can be fairly confident the framework of what the community was looking for is going to be respected and also built,” he said.

To steer the sprawling city in a less car-dependent direction, the project will be connected to the local bus service and Port Credit station.

“These developments will allow the City of Mississauga to press ahead with our work to build a city that is livable and walkable,” Mayor Bonnie Crombie said in an e-mail.

The purchasers of the land are a consortium called Port Credit West Village Partners, Inc., which includes The Kilmer Group, Dream, DiamondCorp, FRAM Building Group Ltd. and Fieldgate.

Stephen Diamond, the president and CEO of DiamondCorp, said that until the sale has closed, which is expected to happen in March, he and the team could not share detailed plans for the project. But he said his group will “develop [the land] in a way that will fulfill important city objectives through a positive public engagement with inspirational design and major public open spaces.”

An environmental assessment that is expected to take two years will begin soon after the sale is finalized. The processing of the land to extract contaminants could be extensive: it was the site of a brick manufacturing plant in the late 1800s, then became home to an oil refinery in 1932, was converted to a petrochemical unit in 1978 and was decommissioned in 1987.

The local Mississauga News described the shutdown of industry on the lands as “leaving ugly piles of uprooted landscape and a gaping tear in the psyche of Port Credit.”

But two decades from now when intensification along the Dundas Street corridor is complete, when Etobicoke is nearly built out, “we’ll be like the human-scale oasis right across our waterfront,” Mr. Tovey predicts
 
If done well, Mississauga could get a waterfront that attracts the masses of Toronto on the weekends, instead of the usual inverse relationship of Mississauga residents going to Toronto for the good stuff.
 
https://www.mississauga.com/news-st...it-redevelopment-plans-to-be-unveiled-monday/
Port Credit redevelopment plans to be unveiled Monday
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I really don't think this is the right site for highrises, especially right at the water's edge. They should be more clustered around the GO station!
 
Traffic will be a big problem. The area is pretty congested now with little to no room for extra capacity.
 
Jasonzed said:
Some how they need to line-up Stavebank and have a dedicated left turn lane, doing so will ease a lot of the current congestion

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.5523966,-79.582366,17.16z
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The plan at this time calls for the CIBC building as well one beside it to be torn down once Waterside Executive Centre is done. This will allow the 2 roads to line up better.

Getting an LRT line to the site is still up in the air as how it will be done, as it will effect the PC station location. There is a call for it to be totally tunnel on Lakeshore and a cost the City will have to pickup. There is funding still around for the line on Port St as per the original plan.

Very strong opposition to anything over 10 story for the area as well a grid system connecting to the existing neighborhoods. There is a call for another boating area for the site as well sport fields.

Having only one bridge over the Credit River between the QEW and Lakeshore is the biggest bottleneck for the waterfront and southern Mississauga including an east west route.
 
CapCurk said:
Traffic will be a big problem. The area is pretty congested now with little to no room for extra capacity.
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This is a HUGE issue. MASSIVE.
drum118 said:
Very strong opposition to anything over 10 story for the area as well a grid system connecting to the existing neighborhoods. There is a call for another boating area for the site as well sport fields.

Having only one bridge over the Credit River between the QEW and Lakeshore is the biggest bottleneck for the waterfront and southern Mississauga including an east west route.
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As there should be. Over 10 stories is ridiculous, especially right by the waterfront. Proper city infrastructure for that does not exist around here, and their plan does not really have good transition in residential density. There are single family homes to the east and west of the site, and they go immediately to 26 stories? Highrise should be clustered by the GO station.

This bottleneck will be incredible if built as planned. It is crazy that Mississauga has so few bridges across the Credit River. Lakeshore, QEW, Dundas, Burnhamthorpe, then 403... so the southern half of the city, literally 3 city streets cross, and 2 highways. And this is not really all that walkable to the GO station, I don't know why they're advertising that it is. I estimate it would take 20-30 mins for most. People will totally drive that. With 1,000 jobs, and 5,000 people, a lot more cars will be on the roads in the immediate area.
 
Jasonzed said:
Some how they need to line-up Stavebank and have a dedicated left turn lane, doing so will ease a lot of the current congestion

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.5523966,-79.582366,17.16z
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They do have plans to help with the alignment that drum118 has mentioned. This will greatly help with pedestrian safety when vehicles take a right turn off of Stavebank to Lakeshore. As for a left turn lane onto Stavebank from Lakeshore, I don't think they have the space unless they get rid street parking along this area, which may be a good idea. Need to keep in mind development on Port street will add to traffic as well as the new condo on the old No Frills site.
 
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