A Beach resident has been ordered to pay $28,693 in legal costs to the developer of a Queen Street condo. Brian Graff was ordered to pay the costs on Aug. 26, three years after he led a failed appeal against plans by Reserve Properties to build a six-storey condo at 1960 Queen St. E, formerly […]
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Medical office challenged at OMB
Neighbours are challenging plans to build a five-storey medical office beside a row of houses on Queen Street East. If it goes ahead, the office will replace a two-storey house at 1895 Queen Street – the last in a row of seven older houses across from the Kew Beach fire hall. Most of the houses […]
OMB rejects Neville Park plans
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 […]
News Briefs
Gerrard Ashdale Library is celebrating International Women’s Day with the screening of A Score for Women’s Voices, a film by Sophie Bissonnette, on Tuesday, March 3, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. This National Film Board presentation documents marches made by millions of women from 161 countries in 2000, to denounce poverty and violence against women. […]
City rejects developer’s plans on Neville Park
City planners are challenging a developer who wants to build four houses on three lots along Neville Park Boulevard. The contested plans call for two new homes and two major renovations of existing houses. The three properties back onto a ravine slope at Neville Park’s north end. Builders are already framing a third-storey addition on […]
Beaches-East York candidates off and running
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, […]
Deal struck for Queen/Woodbine condo
A local developer who plans to build a six-storey condo on the northwest corner of Queen and Woodbine has struck a tentative deal that avoids a legal dispute at the Ontario Municipal Board. Karsten Riedel, a Beach resident and developer of the project called Two Hundred the Beach, is said to have found a compromise […]
Quarry lands group to hold annual general meeting
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 […]
Reflections on an OMB decision
Happy New Year to one and all! Much has recently happened that will affect our community for years to come. Notably, the decision of the OMB to favour the developer’s appeal for the ‘Shell station’ site at Queen and Woodbine was not totally unexpected, but still a bitter disappointment to many who worked long and […]
Time line change would keep OMB appeals in check
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 […]
