[Northern Light]

I'll stick this in here I guess, hard to find a good thread for it..........Cllr Saxe did some digging for unspent S.37 dollars that have been lying dormant, in some cases for many, many years.....(up to 33 years)

And she wishes to reallocate those $$. A letter requesting same is set to go before today's meeting of TEYCC:

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2023/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-239786.pdf

What's intriguing is that some of her proposed reallocations have drawn objections from area residents associations.

First, her list of unspent funds:

On the above, I have to say, the streetscape on Balmuto is unworthy of its adjacent UT'ers (residents) @Benito and @Bayer

That sum is not enough to do what I think should be done, but could make a dent. (significantly wider sidewalk on the east side of the road with trees and pedestrian lights)

The Jarvis money is also of note, the City had a project to use it; that was then killed by cycling advocates who got a bike lane set instead, which lasted a mere couple of years before being removed.

I'm pro cycling and opposed removing the Jarvis lanes, but cycling advocates were wrong to thrwart the original project. The City, having abandoned its original plan, appears to have forgotten the money sitting there.

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Now her proposed use of said funds:

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What station improvements? I'm quite curious now!

 

[picard102]

A report to next week's ECDC meeting puts forward the Capital Plans for construction/renovation/expansion of shelter sites in Toronto.

Do we have the capacity to build out these spaces / vacancy rates to put them in RGI apartments?

 

[Northern Light]

Do we have the capacity to build out these spaces / vacancy rates to put them in RGI apartments?

We could literally shift the money over to one or more of the Housing Now sites and make it work.

We could also use the $ towards building the un-funded new housing at Jane Firgrove (vacant TCHC land) or rebuilding Swansea Mews.

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Most of the existing shelters cannot be refit to affordable housing without a tear down; and you would then need to re-house the current occupants first.

 

[picard102]

I mean more do we have the bodies to throw at this to build them right now. Living next to a housing now site that's in a perpetual limbo and would be happy to see some funding for it shifted here, but is there a bottle neck on trades?

 

[Northern Light]

I mean more do we have the bodies to throw at this to build them right now. Living next to a housing now site that's in a perpetual limbo and would be happy to see some funding for it shifted here, but is there a bottle neck on trades?

There is a bottleneck on trades, though it has eased a tiny bit w/the recent slow down; the Housing Now sites were mostly delayed by lack of CMHC financing; the feds have just put an extra 20B or so of that on the table so that should be resolved in the short term.

There is absolutely enough capability to deliver. Keep in mind as well, that I'm proposing shifting resources from projects already proposed that would also require construction and financing.

 

[christiesplits]

The registration for the Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest By-Election closed on Monday. Election day is Thursday, November 30

All 23 candidates can be found here:

Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest By-Election: List of Certified Candidates & Third Party Advertisers

Review the City Clerk’s Declaration of Results and poll-by-poll results for the 2023 Councillor Ward 20 Scarborough Southwest By-election. The following list contains website links provided by candidates and third party advertisers to the City Clerk. The City Clerk provides these links to the...

www.toronto.ca

Based on cursory research, it appears that six campaigns have some degree of campaign apparatus or support:

- Malika Ghous
- Parthi Kandavel
- Suman Roy
- Kevin Rupasinghe
- Sudip Shome
- Anna Sidiropoulos

 

[Richard White]

The registration for the Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest By-Election closed on Monday. Election day is Thursday, November 30

All 23 candidates can be found here:

Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest By-Election: List of Certified Candidates & Third Party Advertisers

Review the City Clerk’s Declaration of Results and poll-by-poll results for the 2023 Councillor Ward 20 Scarborough Southwest By-election. The following list contains website links provided by candidates and third party advertisers to the City Clerk. The City Clerk provides these links to the...

www.toronto.ca

Based on some cursory research, it appears that six campaigns have some degree of campaign apparatus or support:

- Malika Ghous
- Parthi Kandavel
- Suman Roy
- Kevin Rupasinghe
- Sudip Shome
- Anna Sidiropoulos

I fully expected to see John Turmel on that list..

In any case I will be voting for Kevin Rupasinghe. I know Parthi and he is too business oriented for me, Malika is too much of a flight risk. .

 

[christiesplits]

I fully expected to see John Turmel on that list..

In any case I will be voting for Kevin Rupasinghe. I know Parthi and he is too business oriented for me, Malika is too much of a flight risk. .

I thought you were in Beaches-East York?

Kevin would be my first choice, too.

 

[Richard White]

I thought you were in Beaches-East York?

Kevin would be my first choice, too.

Scarborough Southwest is my riding. Ward 20.

 

[allengeorge]

Toronto’s housing plan would require $1-billion in government grants annually, report says

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has pledged to create 65,000 affordable homes, but funding has been secured for only a few thousand

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

[Northern Light]

Toronto’s housing plan would require $1-billion in government grants annually, report says

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has pledged to create 65,000 affordable homes, but funding has been secured for only a few thousand

www.theglobeandmail.com

Yup.

Some of the money is coming, not sure an exact number. Won't be everything on the City's wish list which is too small in any event.

I will be starting a new thread for the City's Housing file so we have a master thread not tied to specific projects.

Stay tuned for 3 different things this fall.

1) A Housing Accelerator deal is imminent for Toronto, should be well into 9 figures (hundreds of millions, more is not out of the question)

2) CMHC has an additional 20B in mortgages it can bankroll for affordable housing; announcements on some projects receiving funds should come soon. '

3) The Fall Economic Statement (Federal) will arrive sometime next month and will include more $$ for housing.

 

[allengeorge]

Besides the headline numbers, and funding asks, some additional points:

• Toronto wants to limit appeals to municipal zoning/OP changes
• And also, limit appeals for PBR

 

[Northern Light]

Looks as though Ford is mulling uploading the Gardiner/DVP from Toronto as part of the City's 'new deal'.

That would take about 2B off the current 10-year capital budget for the City which would free up some space.

If the province repaid the City for the money it has invested in the Gardiner the last 3-4 years it would get a bit better still.

The pure play operating number is not as exciting, but it would take the cost of the plowing, routine maintenance, streetlights etc.

An interesting question would also be the pending re-do the Islington and Kipling interchanges w/the Gardiner.

All that said, should this go ahead, it is not by any means sufficient to resolve the City's issues on its own, but it would be a good start.

Doug Ford government open to taking over Gardiner, DVP to help fix Toronto’s finances, sources say

Ontario has signalled during talks within a new city-provincial working group that it’s open to uploading the costly highways, say sources.

www.thestar.com

 

[Richard White]

Looks as though Ford is mulling uploading the Gardiner/DVP from Toronto as part of the City's 'new deal'.

That would take about 2B off the current 10-year capital budget for the City which would free up some space.

If the province repaid the City for the money it has invested in the Gardiner the last 3-4 years it would get a bit better still.

The pure play operating number is not as exciting, but it would take the cost of the plowing, routine maintenance, streetlights etc.

An interesting question would also be the pending re-do the Islington and Kipling interchanges w/the Gardiner.

All that said, should this go ahead, it is not by any means sufficient to resolve the City's issues on its own, but it would be a good start.

Doug Ford government open to taking over Gardiner, DVP to help fix Toronto’s finances, sources say

Ontario has signalled during talks within a new city-provincial working group that it’s open to uploading the costly highways, say sources.

www.thestar.com

If I recall, was the DVP and Gardiner not previously downloaded from the province?

 

[Northern Light]

If I recall, was the DVP and Gardiner not previously downloaded from the province?

In part,

What had been the QEW west of the Humber was downloaded by the province to the City and became the Gardiner.