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toaster29 said:
Sorry to respond to this old post. But I do think the government should make it simple for government workers to work closer to home so we don't need to waste this much money on parking. There are nurses who travel hours to get to their hospital because it happened to be the hospital hiring at the time they were looking. Same goes for teachers, doctors, policing, and many other government jobs. We need to incentivize living where you work and make it easier to do this. People (obviously) don't want to go through applying, interviewing, starting at the bottom of seniority, so they sit in traffic for hours, emit greenhouse gasses to get there, park in massive parking lots to get where they need to get to make money. So we have to keep expanding our highways, building massive parkades, and not have people who live in our communities serve these communities. This should be a government priority.
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The last thing you want is for your on call doctor/nurse/specialist to take a long time getting to the hospital because they are on public transit. Additionally, not everyone who is ambulatory and in need of emergency care can take public transit to get to the ER. There will always be a need for large parking requirements at hospitals in the GTA.
 
bangkok said:
The last thing you want is for your on call doctor/nurse/specialist to take a long time getting to the hospital because they are on public transit. Additionally, not everyone who is ambulatory and in need of emergency care can take public transit to get to the ER. There will always be a need for large parking requirements at hospitals in the GTA.
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I think there's a middle ground here.

I didn't read @toaster29 's comment as one of 'ban parking at suburban hospitals'; but rather as one that the scale/size of the parking requirement here is unfortunate, and could be less if a variety of different things were considered, not merely investing in transit/active transportation, but in facilitating employees living closer to where they work. All of which sounds perfectly reasonable to my ears.

It needs to be said, that while parking is offerered on-site or adjacent at most hospitals, including those in downtown Toronto, the proportion of parking, relative to patient volume/number of employees is almost certainly lower, in many cases, than what is being done here.

It may be that this is necessary, this time. But surely if we can get ahead of the game on these issues, perhaps it the scale of parking provision could be more modest in the future.

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I think it's also important to note, that drivers get stuck in traffic jams too; and that many people driving to a job here may be coming from very far afield, and not able to arrive at the hospital in a timely way, if needed urgently. All the more reason to encourage people to live closer to their jobs where possible.
 
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Toronto-area hospital network receives $75M donation pledge to help build Canada's largest hospital

A Mississauga-based company has pledged to donate tens of millions of dollars in an effort to build the biggest health-care facility in the country.
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A Mississauga-based company has pledged to donate tens of millions of dollars in an effort to build the biggest health-care facility in the country.

Trillium Health Partners (THP), which operates two hospitals in Mississauga and one hospital in Toronto’s west end, revealed at the Wednesday announcement attended by Ontario Premier Doug Ford that industrial real estate developer Orlando Corporation will match each donation made up to $75 million in the fundraising effort.

If the full amount is raised, $50 million will go toward the previously announced Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital. Gilgan, the founder of homebuilder Mattamy Homes, made a private donation of $105 million last year towards the hospital that will bear his name.

Construction is set to begin on the project in 2025 and, upon completion, the hospital will house over 950 beds – which THP said will make it the biggest hospital in the country.
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Lake Ontario said:
There were town halls this week. Slides: https://trilliumhealthworks.ca/documents/Community-Town-Hall-March-2022-Presentation.pdf

New parkade, recently started construction.
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Site plan.
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The emergency department will located to the south on Bronte College Court. The J-wing will remain and will be repurposed for another use, undecided for now. No info on what will replace the existing hospital.

Zoning uses.
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Trillium is currently in the process of purchasing the Camilla Care Community. Once that goes through, rezoning from residential to institutional use will take place.
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Why is the rest of the existing hospital being demolished? Are there plans to do something with it or is it just going to be more parking? Seems like a waste to tear it down if there are no immediate plans to do anything else with it just to make more parking (when they're already building a parkade)....couldn't it be turned into shelter space or something?
 
formerTorontonian said:
Why is the rest of the existing hospital being demolished? Are there plans to do something with it or is it just going to be more parking? Seems like a waste to tear it down if there are no immediate plans to do anything else with it just to make more parking (when they're already building a parkade)....couldn't it be turned into shelter space or something?
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It is part of an overall redevelopment. Once the new parking garage is operational, the existing one will be demolished and replaced with a new ER
 
formerTorontonian said:
Why is the rest of the existing hospital being demolished? Are there plans to do something with it or is it just going to be more parking? Seems like a waste to tear it down if there are no immediate plans to do anything else with it just to make more parking (when they're already building a parkade)....couldn't it be turned into shelter space or something?
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Been there recently doing an MRI upgrade and the hospital infrastructure is  very dated and just overall a complete mess.

Im in favor of it being completely demolished for the reasons above.
 
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