Is the side of the building on Woodbine going right to the sidewalk which is there now? If so, the aesthetics of the outside of the complex will be seriously compromised. Why? a. Because the sidewalk is much too narrow considering heavy pedestrian traffic. b. Cigarette butts have nowhere to go before smokers enter the supermarket and/or the TTC Station. Cigarettes and other messes lie on the sidewalk all along Woodbine and around the TTC property. c. The TTC Station is too small and can't be kept clean inside or out. It is a big pedestrian-traffic area. d. The garbage bins need to be emptied far more often and they make the sidewalk even more narrow.
If places are well looked after, their users tend to help keep them that way. A team of cleaning people working all day every day inside and outside the Woodbine Station would help but could not make this new complex look professional without attention to the challenges I have mentioned. If an impressive, professional looking complex is your desire, please pay attention. Talk seriously with the TTC, too.
I appreciate that you're new here, as new as new gets.
So, let me offer some assistance in understanding this site and its threads and etiquette.
1) Wherever possible, you should answer your own questions by reading the other posts in a thread in front of yours. We're all reasonable (well, most of us), if a thread is 100+ pages long, no one expects you to go back to the beginning, but this thread is only 2 pages. Many of your questions are answered already.
2) Try not to stray from the topic at hand too much. It's totally fair to point out that Woodbine Stn is too small, it's already been mentioned in the thread, as it was as the public meeting. But getting into nitty-gritty of how clean it is, is a bit of a digression, from a development that is not owned by the TTC or the City; to a station that is not maintained by the developer in question.
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That said, I will now endeavour to answer your questions.
1) The development as it was originally proposed did not envision enlarging Woodbine Station.
2) The development as it was originally proposed did have a sidewalk widening along Woodbine to between 4M to 4.4M wide. The current sidewalk is approximately 2.7M, so roughly a 50% widening, which was to include the addition of street trees.
- To obtain this information, you can follow a link, usually found in the first post of a development thread, though not always, called 'development applications' That link is below.
Search for details about current planning applications and Minor variance and Consent applications. Application Information Centre For best results, please use the latest version of Microsoft IE/Edge, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. The Application Information Centre allows you to: Search by...
app.toronto.ca
This will take you to the City's Application Information Centre where you can look at detailed plans filed under 'supporting documentation'. The plans for sidewalks will most commonly be found in the Landscape and Lighting report and/or the Transportation Impact Study.
In this case, the former will show you the design, while the latter has the measurements.
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That said, the important take away here is than neither the public, including yours truly, nor the City Councillor were satisfied w/the proposal. The failure to examine opportunities for expanding Woodbine Station was among the reasons stated.
The developer is currently reworking the proposal, and a new version should be out in the next several months.
Watch for several changes.
Welcome to the discussion.