After almost a decade, a Crescent Town development proposal is headed to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) again after the city and the developer were unable to come to an agreement about the size and structure of the residential tower. The developer, Preston Group, argues the 37-storey, 396 rental unit building at Secord and Eastdale […]
The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) has long been an issue in Toronto city and development politics, with many residents and politicians calling for a major overhaul of the system they say is unaccountable to the public and built to favour developers. According to Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts, that major overhaul is on the way. […]
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 […]
Ontario’s top real-estate appeals board has rejected plans to build four homes on three lots at the north end of Neville Park Boulevard. Writing for the Ontario Municipal Board on March 23, board member Sarah Jacobs said the proposed buildings were too large for their lots and out of character with the neighbourhood. Jacobs said […]
Sporting a bright green T-shirt marked ‘mmm good!,’ councillor Mary Margaret-McMahon calls out as her bicycle bumps over cracked and potholed pavement by Main Street Library. “You see how bad the road is? I bumped up the road resurfacing on Main,” she says. “We’d heard complaints, but it was also because we bike there.” Before […]
Why vote? Candidates for Ontario’s June election only get four weeks to give you a reason, not only to vote for them, but to vote at all. Turnout dipped to 49 per cent in the last Ontario election – a record low. That figure was a couple points higher here in Beaches-East York, but still, […]
The Concerned Citizens of Quarry Lands Development (CCQLD) will be holding its annual general meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 22. The group originally formed to oppose high rise developments on the quarry lands, situated on the north side of Gerrard Street East, east of Victoria Park Avenue. The potential apartment towers would be across the street […]
People across this province know the Beach as an iconic destination to visit fine restaurants, shop in eclectic stores and soak up the ambience of a vibrant, exciting neighbourhood. Those who have the good fortune to live there struggle to preserve the characteristics that brought them there in the first place. Recently developers have seized […]
Queen Street is set to become the subject of a ‘visioning study’ from Coxwell to Neville Park, to put guidelines for development into place. The study was approved at the Jan. 10 meeting of Toronto and East York Community Council. Ward 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon proposed the study as a way for the community to […]
