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 […]
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 […]
