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...which didn't happen -- and they were working on Plan-B by 1986 -

Headline from FORTY (40) years ago - Nov. 20, 1984 -

Join CreateTO at a series of Community Pop-ups to learn more about the Housing Now site at 40 Bushby Drive. The project team will be on hand to provide project information and answer questions. 📅 Scarborough YMCA 230 Town Centre Court Monday, November 25th 10 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 📅 Centennial...

Dear Community Members, Join us on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Crescent Town Elementary School for an Information Meeting to learn more about the development of the City-owned site at 777 Victoria Park Avenue. Staff from the City of Toronto, CreateTO, and the...

BlogTO story - https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2024/11/610-bay-st-toronto/

TORONTO STAR story - https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/former-toronto-coach-terminal-to-be-redeveloped-into-housing-olivia-chow-says/article_9b373240-a759-11ef-adf3-ebed94410d99.html

Parkdale Hub is too complex on the "everything bagel" community facilities side - (and too small, on the Affordable Housing side) to really be a "Fast-Track" project at this point.

From the City e-blast today - We are pleased to share that the City has released the Purpose-built Rental Housing Incentives Call for Applications. The Call for Applications can be found at...

Groundbreaking this afternoon at 2:00 PM https://www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-launches-new-housing-projects-promotes-housing-for-all-during-national-housing-week/

BLOG TO article on the parking-lot closing -

CBC story on the Housing Lottery units - New affordable housing units open in Toronto as major gap remains https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/affordable-rental-lotteries-toronto-1.7383539

Signage is larger now. Parking Lot CLOSES on Monday. Sidewalk closure planned for the North side of Wilson under the Allen Expressway, which I assume means some of the station entrances will be CLOSED too.

Counting and comparing UNIT COUNTS is not always useful, because the City prefers larger units in their "Affordable Housing" allocation -- than the regular "Market Rental" units. 20% of total R-GFA is what the City usually enforces in these agreements, but then requires more 2 & 3 Bedroom units...

Noting there is a local Anti-development petition on Change-dot-Org, but it is not getting much traction… https://www.change.org/p/stop-zoning-by-law-amendment-bill-1166-and-the-35-storey-tall-bldg-at-985-woodbine-ave

Important to note that there was a crazy NIMBY appeal around this 12-bed Hospice project back in 2020 - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-a-dignified-death-not-in-their-backyard/

Correct, the City / TTC expropriated BOTH the North-West and South-West corners of Woodbine and Strathmore in around 2013... TIME LAPSE [2013] - TIME LAPSE [2014] - Construction Site-Use (2014)

Also, worth noting that this 996 WOODBINE AVE site was considered for denser development via the EHON Pilot program in Beaches - East York, but was removed from that program in 2021, because of it's location above the subway station box at WOODBINE. "The Pilot Project team explored missing...

From this weekend's NEWSLETTER from Councillor Bradford - 996 Woodbine Open House As you may have heard, 2-Spirits – a non-profit, Toronto-based organization focused on supporting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, and who have an office at 2126 Danforth Ave just east of Woodbine – are...

APRIL 2017 NY21.11 - Request to Demolish the Residential Building at 1220 Wilson Avenue https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2017.NY21.11 "A municipally owned or operated public parking lot is a permitted use in all zones in the City-wide Zoning By-law 569-2013" ...to be...

Yeah, we would need to dig back a dozen years or so to find the Townhouse proposal for 1220 & 1222 WILSON AVE that a company called OLD ORCHARD PROPERTIES had proposed during the Rob Ford years... This was back in the day where City Councillors could ask "helpful" folks on the Toronto Parking...