Recent content by realpolytics

"Being lectured by John Fillion and Paula Fletcher on the development file"...can't blame her for not listening🤣. I think many will accept a 20,000sf community space and public park versus a 12 month litigation about shadows and office space...to end up with the same result.

I was wondering the same, this site did not have to submit any studies?

really isn't just that light grey/blue spandrel...pick any other color

I wouldn't be so worried, they have likely had hundreds of people try to acquire the property on top of endless discussions /agreements about the two neighboring properties developing. These projects don't happen overnight it will be disruptive but they've had plenty of time to prepare.

Does anyone know how the 30% affordable units are being released in this building?

Can anyone explain why the precast brick here looks so much better than others in the city?

Almost a perfect angle for this rendering vs reality -

They must have an agreement they would not freely give up development rights...maybe U of T will co-own it or this could be another Campus One situation whereby all zoning precedent doesn't matter because "U of T" can only speculate for now.

The thing is it didn't actually help with approvals, same feedback on submissions, even if it's approved "quicker" once it's approved you're still dealing with the same city divisions who all have there own kingdom to rule over...and never got the memo this is "as of right", they just don't...

Some action - construction staging update from the city website - December 14th. Still confused as to why they delayed after starting demolition. https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-251747.pdf

For all the bricklaying discussion on UT might find this interesting - part of the delay referenced here and dispute with Ellisdon is over the use of non-union brick laying in London and Ottawa and so the teams at Mirvish here were forced to stop. Link

This City of Toronto has apparently purchased this for $7.2M..

Retail property tax rates should be tiered to business size. Banks and fast food should be paying nearly double the rate of a small business. To me this is the single greatest tool within the cities control to encourage small retail.

Would you not say the rationale is the buffer of the Allen expressway to protect the neighborhoods than the distance to the subway?...there are far closer areas to subways which will never be changed this drastically .

They are connected via this project in Toronto https://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/leaside.43222