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Some images & stats from the MADISON submission to TEYCC today - https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/te/comm/communicationfile-183948.pdf Building 1 - Building 2 - Affordable Housing stats -

APPROVED..! Passed unanimously at CoA today. ✅ About 5 or 6 neighbouring home-owners and relatives showed-up to complain (mostly about parking & overlook). Former Mayoral-Candidate Chloe Brown showed-up to speak in support, and Mark Richardson from HousingNowTO spoke in support via WebEx. CoA...

It was a Radiothon-Telethon fundraiser event... https://magellancommunityfoundation.com/event/radiothon-telethon/

We only get one chance to "do it right" -- and a single-use Library only project on that parcel of land is not likely to proceed under the current Mayor's watch.

Rent-Geared-to-Income "RGI" is always the SOCIAL HOUSING in the City Reports, average RGI rents (2023) are below $500 / Month, hence the huge waiting-lists. "Workforce Housing" is AFFORDABLE HOUSING in the City Reports, at rents and incomes equivalent to the current (2024) "Housing Lottery"...

Is the unit-split of the TCHC / Social Housing, Affordable Rental & Market-Rate across these ~819 units doesn't appear to be broken-out, but here is the mix across both PHASE 4 & 5... "While the number of Replacement Social Housing Units and new Affordable Rental Units remains unchanged with...

Some late-afternoon photos from earlier today… Last days of the “bunker”.

Attended the ground-breaking today with some of our recent students from TMU SURP and U of T School of Cities...

"The development proposal for the subject site proposes that 3% of all new residential gross floor area will be secured as affordable housing for a minimum affordability period of 40 years. The affordable housing units will be provided at a similar pace as the market units have a unit mix that...

Yup, our Letter of Support was added to AIC already -- and I have sent in a request to speak at the CoA.

Will be interesting to see if any of the current By-Election candidates post anything to their Campaign channels about this "Yellow-Belt to Tower" proposal...

Which is funny because CreateTO was sharing them a "new" less than a week ago...

Affordable Housing Terms of Reference as attached to the Staff Report -

Adding to the watch list. thx!

FULL TLAB DECISION - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DQ8lCzQkODv791FBytov7infWqLDKwgF/view?usp=sharing

TLAB appeal allows the project to proceed... with conditions...

Good Affordable Rental ratio --- and partnering with Woodgreen who already does a lot in the area. Plus the conversion from Condo to Rental -- hopefully it gets OK'd at CoA.

Excavation is much deeper than when I was on-site a few months ago.

Had some U of T students on the site today…

"Starting underground and building on the vertical structure of the subway, the pieces were held together using sand and gravel. The 650-ton structure cost the city $250,000." https://thinking-stoneman.blogspot.com/2011/09/rock.html Less than 20-cents per pound to build the one in Yorkville.