Alan Burke will have to wait to find out if his bid to try to change the plans for the city-owned portion of the quarry lands east of Gerrard Street East and Victoria Park Avenue was accepted by the Ontario Municipal Board. That’s because the OMB decided to reserve its decision on whether or not […]
Beach resident Alan Burke is hoping to take a petition that failed to sway the decision-makers at Scarborough Community Council and turn it into success at the Ontario Municipal Board. In September 2015, Bernadette Warren attended the Community Council meeting with a 550-signature petition hoping to change the plans for the city-owned portion of the […]
Scarborough councillors have approved plans for 300 homes, a park and a big-box store on the west side of the Birch Cliff quarry lands. But they had sharp words for what one councillor called the “beast to the east” – a 1968 plan, still in force, that permits Gerrard-Clonmore Developments to build a ring of […]
Keep it natural. When all their voting dots were counted, that was the key advice local residents gave designers of a new city park planned for the quarry lands at Victoria Park Avenue and Gerrard Street East. Making up roughly a quarter of the 19.7-acre site that Build Toronto plans to develop on the quarry […]
Critics of a decades-old plan to build apartment towers on the former quarry lands east of Victoria Park Avenue are hoping the developer, Gerrard Clonmore Developments, will lower its sights now that low-rise developments are proposed on either side of its property. Speaking at a Jan. 22 meeting of the Concerned Citizens for Quarry Lands […]
Even as the puck dropped in game seven of the Leafs-Bruins series, people were pulling out extra chairs at Blantyre Public School to see the latest plans for the Birch Cliff quarry lands. The more than 100 residents at the May 13 meeting got a first look at sketches showing Build Toronto’s plans for four-storey […]
The annual general meeting of the Concerned Citizens for Quarry Land Development (CCQLD) was held at Birchcliff Bluffs Church on Jan. 23. About 75 local people braved the Arctic chill to attend. They were provided with an update on the recent actions at the quarry land site, and to elect the 2013 CCQLD Board of […]
