yyzer
Senior Member
Mississauga is a sprawling culturally devoid hellhole.
Yes, that post is a worthless piece of drivel.....
Mississauga is a sprawling culturally devoid hellhole.
The hate or love which side you were grew tonight when council refused 2 development in the name of traffic and NIMBY.
Both developments supported transit big time, but the car folks wanted their way.
I expect both application will go to the OMB where the city will loose.
City council said every one should have the full view and sunlight from their single floor house.
Try tell that to the folks who thought they had a good view of the city of Toronto on the 20th and then one day a build grew up in front of them blocking the view.
HAY!! HAY!! HO!! HO!! Time Council Got To GO..................OH!! Running for reelection has already started and it not even 2010.
Who running for office as they have my vote than the clowns we have.
In fairness, there is nothing especially special about Mississauga, of all places. I'd say it has the edge over Brampton, or Milton, or York Region, just purely by virtue of having a shoreline.Nah, I still hate it.
They didn’t build houses like yours after the 1940s even in Toronto, even with your model example even closer by.I grew up in Mississauga, Meadowvale to be specific at Winston Churchill and Derry Road. We lived there from our arrival from the UK in the 1970s until we moved to Toronto's Beach(es) in the late 1980s. Having now lived in Cabbagetown for 25 years and having traveled around much of suburbia for work, I find myself asking why downtown-like density wasn't used in early suburbs like my 1970s Mississauga and those sprawling burbs that followed.
Here in Cabbagetown I have dedicated on-property parking, five bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a finished basement rec/tv room, separate family/reception and dining rooms, a useable backyard with patio, garden, BBQ, etc. all on a lot that's about 18.5 x 110 ft. The street out front has sidewalks on both sides, is narrow to encourage traffic to stay within the 30 kph posted limited, yet wide enough for on-street parking on one side, a dedicated bike lane on the other side and sufficient space for vehicular traffic, including the largest fire trucks to use.
When I visit suburbia, including Mississauga, I see the polar opposites, including needlessly wide roads that encourage speeding, often without any sidewalks, and wastefully wide lots. Beyond a huge lawn to mow, there's nothing that the suburban house on its sprawling lot offers that mine does not. You could put ten of my houses where there are three or four in suburbia. And that's why I detest Hazel and the planners of the 1970s.... they had model communities like mine, demonstrating efficient land and smart density that they could have modeled Mississauga on. And the developers would have gone along, since they could sell ten houses instead of three on narrow streets with homes more packed in, making best use of space and infrastructure.
Why build this...
If you can build this? And who would want the above when you can have the below?
Yes, in Mississauga you can often park four or even six cars on your property, whereas in downtown Toronto your lucky to park one. But this is only necessary because every adult in the house needs a car because Mississauga does not have the density to support good public transit.