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Humber Bay Shores
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christiesplits
Senior Member
How rampant development and poor planning left residents of this Etobicoke neighbourhood stuck in traffic
Toronto Star
Ben Spurr
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...etobicoke-neighbourhood-stuck-in-traffic.html
Toronto Star
Ben Spurr
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...etobicoke-neighbourhood-stuck-in-traffic.html
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Should have built it before the condos. Surely they install sewers and hydro capacity before finishing new residential? Why not transit? Instead of fighting the property owners at the OMB, the city should have made a deal that the builders invest in transit and pay for the Park Lawn Go Station.
Forgoing the above sensible approach, as soon as the OMB allowed the condos the city should have started a transit plan (and a public school plan) for the area.
Instead I sense the city said, “well, screw you OMB and developers, we can’t stop your condos, but we don’t have to service them.”
Amare
Senior Member
Oh trust me it's not just transit and roads that havent been built in the area, hydro capacity is sorely lacking as well as it's putting a severe strain on the nearby Manby transformer station at Kipling. I'm not sure about the sewer capacity, but i'm sure we'll be hearing about some issues pop up about that one as well in the next few years.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Reminds me of the white elephant speculators built on the Bayview Extension, without hydro or sewers.
http://www.eastyorkchronicle.com/fe...w-ghost-is-a-chilling-municipal-horror-story/
Filip
Senior Member
New condos around Brookers Lane are having sewer backups because the city built a smaller diameter sewer pipe than what the developers' engineers asked for.
That's currently a lawsuit.
aquateam
Active Member
Ah, a truly heroic story of the city's fight to build detached single family sprawl over the Don Valley against the threat of mid-rise apartment buildings.
Amare
Senior Member
I figured there was some issue going on with the sewers that I didnt know about. Depending on how the Mondelez lands are handled, this area will either be used as a future case study how to avoid planning an inadequate neighborhood, or how to transform neighborhood which was badly planned from the start into one that actually functions properly.
Keyz
Active Member
Full Metal Junkie
Active Member
A bit of a throwback Thursday here for you. Humber Bay Shores skyline, a year in review. The two shots were taken from near the Exhibition Place windmill almost exactly one year apart.
Aug 21, 2017:
Aug 29, 2018:
Eau du Soleil is certainly reshaping this skyline.
P.S. Apologies for the poor composition of the first shot, I literally took it while riding the bike without stopping.
Aug 21, 2017:
Aug 29, 2018:
Eau du Soleil is certainly reshaping this skyline.
P.S. Apologies for the poor composition of the first shot, I literally took it while riding the bike without stopping.
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Filip
Senior Member
Scaddabush is opening in Ocean Club.
I know it's a chain, but man I love them.
I know it's a chain, but man I love them.
Keyz
Active Member
Good to see another restaurant opening here. Though I'd prefer a non-Italian one, given there's already Eden.
Keyz
Active Member
JasonParis
Moderator
I don't mean to sound elitist, but Scaddabush is not very Italian anyway. It's more a modern take of East Side Marios.
Towered
Senior Member
And East Side Mario's was terrible.