[drum118]

Respectfully I disagree. The good thing of having all construction in one place is that it is easier to build the transit because we know where everyone is going. Toronto would have been much better off if they never let buildings be built randomly through their burbs but instead insisted they be all downtown. It would have meant that not so many people needed to commute. More people could walk. Rather spreading out the density means you need to serve these areas as well.

I also don’t see how choosing a corridor like Dundas is any different than choosing a corridor like Hurontario which is essentially what the city has done except with hyper density at MCC. The only advantage of Dundas and Hurontario being the place where the city could have built is the GO. And I simply cannot rely on that GO ever being useful since all day service sounds like a fantasy so to me it’s a moot point.

All major corridors needs more density and construction is a fact of life. The only place to build residential is up with some parts of the city that still have large lots for homes that can be split for a another house or two or townhouses.

There been many cases not only this year as well in the past where home owners have requested permission to split their land for more houses or increase the size of it.

There are many lots where existing homes have been torn down to have a larger house built in its place over the past decade.

By forcing all development to MCC will mean poor transit service to other parts of the city due to low ridership and keep people in their cars or going out to buying one. Now you got more cars on the road that traffic becomes worse to travel and slows down transit even more.

 

[sixrings]

All major corridors needs more density and construction is a fact of life. The only place to build residential is up with some parts of the city that still have large lots for homes that can be split for a another house or two or townhouses.

There been many cases not only this year as well in the past where home owners have requested permission to split their land for more houses or increase the size of it.

There are many lots where existing homes have been torn down to have a larger house built in its place over the past decade.

By forcing all development to MCC will mean poor transit service to other parts of the city due to low ridership and keep people in their cars or going out to buying one. Now you got more cars on the road that traffic becomes worse to travel and slows down transit even more.

As a former Scarborough resident I came to accept that at some point if you’re far enough from the core transit is going to be less than ideal. However when you randomly throw towers in the park into Scarborough all you did was add a whole bunch of people who likely would like to use transit but there’s simply no way if servicing them correctly.

Should people be able to denisfy their properties. Damn I hope so. I can put a 60 floor building on mine. But I still think it’s best to build as high and dense as possible to the core and then slowly move to mid rises, then to row town houses, then to semis. Then to SFH’s.

As for development elsewhere. Of course I would like to see all major streets be lined with mid rises because everything we get out of a plaza can be put into a condo ground floor. And ideally those new residents will demand complete streets. Transit lanes, car lanes and bike lanes. Mississauga should look at their 3 lanes in each direction streets as an asset waiting to be converted then the mini highways they currently serve as.

But the more people we put into MCC the more it will feel like its own city because those people will demand things like entertainment / restaurants / arts.

 

[drum118]

Need to visit City Hall Autumn to see the model display of the centre core being setup showing what exist, plan and out dated for the core. They dis a nice lob for M1 & 2 with M3 missing as well the Exchange towers.

 

[Lake Ontario]

 

[A Torontonian Now]

Nov 21:

 

[sixrings]

Need to visit City Hall Autumn to see the model display of the centre core being setup showing what exist, plan and out dated for the core. They dis a nice lob for M1 & 2 with M3 missing as well the Exchange towers.

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I think the bird apartments near the hotel does not match what’s going up. But it’s a really nice display even if all the placeholders are much smaller than they will eventually be.