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The thing to watch for here is whether it's a serious proposal or not. I don't believe Morguard develops condos (I could be wrong) so this may be just an upzoning excercise to establish a higher value for the property.

Prediction - 83 floors and an architect that will scare the bejesus out of the architectural critics on this forum.

If Holt's is getting redeveloped, it's being kept a pretty close secret in the development world. Planners, lawyers, and developers all gossip and not much has been said about this.

It's a conflict, but how is this different from OMERS developing accross the street, they are owned by City employees. Plus, with development charges, Section 37 agreements, etc. every municiplailty has, in effect, a direct financial interest in development.

I agree completely about getting politicians out of the transportation planning process. I had high hopes for Metrolinx being able to take charge of this process, but they've shown themselves to be a very weak organization. This isn't a new issue (Transit City wasn't a great plan either and...

I believe there was a bit of talk about design, but it was mostly about how it was changed to reduce community impacts (shadows on parks). I'm assuming that was why the tower shifted. C. Vaughan loved the three bedroom units, removable ceilings in some units (I guess for conversion to...

Approved at community council today. A lot of negative comments from other condos in the area, mostly regarding height.

Approved at community council with gushing comments from the downtown councilors.

It can't be a fun time to work at Metrolinx. They're supposed to be developing an investment strategy now to pay for the Big Move. Basically any transportation professional will say tolls are a big part of the answer because of their dual role of raising money and discouraging peak period car...

In terms of influence I think the TIFF tower at King / John has had a big impact. It's height set a precedent for the neighbourhood that has been used as the justifcation for all of the new towers in the entertainment district. I wonder what would've happened if the City held out for a more...

Toronto will never 'stop' congestion on its highways. Even reducing it would be heroic. I'm pretty convinced there's three easy steps to developing a sustainable transportation system in Toronto. 1. End bad land use planning in the suburbs. Employment sprawl, in particular, is creating...

Nope, this is the last phase.

Sorry, Marko, I was into the bourbon last night which seems to have affected my sarcasm-detector.

Reason 1 - most buildings in our city need access to motor vehicles for transit, deliveries, etc. Reason 2 - the idea of car-less areas hasn't worked well (even for pedestrians) where Toronto has tried it (i.e. Simcoe north of Queen). Good road design can accomodate cars, pedestrians and...

What isn't well known is that even at $30k a spot developers lose money on every space they build. On tough sites near the water the spaces can cost $100k to build. The only reason they are built is they have to do something with the basement (needed for structural reasons), the City makes...

This would've been counted manually. The City has started using electronic counting but these counts are too old for that.

Traffic counts conducted by the City of Toronto are notoriously inaccurate. I've seen counts off by a factor of two when compared to private firms. They also conduct them at really odd times (summer, Fridays, etc.) which skews the results. That Yonge and Eglinton count is a prime example...

I saw a shoring truck enter the site today.

No new public parking entrance, the two existing public parking entrances remain as is. The two garages are adjacent but not inter-connected.

Cool topic, thanks for the link. I've heard both 400 and 500 metres in Toronto as a standard (i.e about a 5 minute walk). One reason this is an improtant issue is when new communities are designed in Ontario tha main streets are two kilomteres apart. How to serve the huge parts of these...