[AlvinofDiaspar]

From the Globe:

Residents would be blocked from challenging developments within 500 metres of transit stations under sweeping reforms to the Ontario Municipal Board to be unveiled next week.

The provision, revealed to The Globe and Mail by government sources, would allow municipalities to bar challenges to approved developments near GO Transit, subway or light-rail stations in order to support the goal of boosting density near transit lines.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...0-metres-of-transit-stations/article34979676/

Though I can see this creating problems for future transit projects - specifically that any new line will be a license to intensify. So it should be, but will basically add another potentially very intense type of resistance.

AoD

 

[steveintoronto]

So it should be, but will basically add another potentially very intense type of resistance.
AoD

I read the story about an hour ago, couldn't quite grasp the 'big picture' of it, read it again a few minutes ago...maybe I got out of bed on the wrong side this morning...but as I understand what's written, it's at odds with itself.

I'm going to have to find some other copy on the story, because it takes away with one hand, and gives with the other. Whether I'm misunderstanding that intent or not remains to be seen. And I fully agree, it will, as I understand as it pertains to proximity to transit stations, have unintended consequences, not least the reluctance, more than ever, for people to live close to transit stations.

One must keep this in mind:
Metrolinx slammed for ‘appalling’ bus station beside Mississauga homes
Mississauga councillors ripped Metrolinx apart Wednesday for building a new bus station way too close to homes.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...ing-bus-station-beside-mississauga-homes.html

Robbing Peter to spite Paul...locales, if established, balanced neighbourhoods, will now be reluctant to embrace local transit stations, rather than embrace them.

That being said, density close to transit must be encouraged, or the transit trunks themselves are misplaced unless meant to be express by-pass.

 

[Leo_Chan]

This is pretty close:

 

[steveintoronto]

This is pretty close:

It is, and I do have some sympathy for those affected, but at least it isn't *high-rise density* being imposed on them, casting a shadow, literally, over their lives. And to flip it over, look how close their neighbours are!

What GO should do is plant some trees their side of the fence to absorb sound and visuals.

 

[Allandale25]

This is pretty close:

I think it's been moved since then.