Recent content by Pro-catastrophe

Today at lunch I saw a few City workers in the fountain on University at Queen. They weren't fixing it yet but they we looking at plans and clipboards like they were preparing to do something.

wow!

Oops. Meant to reply to this post.

Weird! I had a girfriend and some friends that lived in this apartment for years. When she was there they were above a tobacco store (I think it's located down the street now). I remember they always used to talk about their landlord, Mr. Nissanbaum and even named their fish after him. We...

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I'm not sure I understand this definition. Are you talking about city or town boundaries or are you talking about urban development boundaries within existing towns (obviously Toronto does not have an urban development boundary other than it's border)? I'm not sure if you are asking if towns...

I don’t think public transit is supposed to be a profitable business. Or even that is should be breaking even from fare revenues. Public transportation is infrastructure that is supposed to aid the functioning of our society and economy. It should be subsidised so that people can move...

I don't think the area around Scarborough Town Centre is run down or crime ridden. Borough Dr. and the residential neighbourhood to the south are actually very nice. The mall is currently undergoing a massive renovation and really, was not that bad to begin with. The only problem with...

The plaza at Vic Park and Ellesmere was eventually "listed" as having heritage value which offers far less protection than if the building was "designated". Still, it is nice to see that the value of this period of architecture is starting to be appreciated. Here is the differnce between...

Here is the link to the planning application status page in case your interested in looking up other proposals. http://app.toronto.ca/DevelopmentApplications/searchPlanningAppSetup.do?action=init

I read something about a new medical building in the area in the local paper (the Mirror I think). There is a rezoning and site plan applciation for the property you mentioned. See below for the informaiton. I got it from the Development Application Status webpage. Rezoning...

where do you live? Toronto or East York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York?

I agree with you 100%. Letting buildings fall into a state of disrepair has also been used as a strategy for getting permission to demolish of heritage houses.

I guess it’s possible that there is some issue other than the ones outlined in the report that is seriously hampering this development. But this is prime real estate so I imaging it’s nothing that money couldn’t overcome eventually. Anyway, even in the unlikely event the owner eventually...

I think these are the houses you're asking about. http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2008/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-14329.pdf It is too bad the owner wants to tear them down and redevelop but without the historical designation there isn't much that can be done to stop them provided the...