Congratulations on your lack of a sense of humour, suv. FYI, we've had a rash of multiple account posters and bizarro posters lately...this thread's intersection of transit and development makes it fertile ground for the flamewars that tend to attract such posters.
I find it both highly amusing and completely ridiculous that I've been cited for a Borg mentality - I rarely agree with anybody! For starters, I voted for Pitfield
Clearly, people aren't all on the same page re: the importance of transit. Glen believes that the TTC shouldn't expand at all (even though expansion in the 416 is a prerequisite to serving 905 jobs, not to mention the backlog of people that get left behind on platforms and at the side of the road).
Actually, the rezoning has been from bungalows to townhouses and condos, and from 1 storey retail to condos and offices with retail at street level...jobs have been created. There's plenty of land left for office buildings should they be wanted and the only prime office land "lost" that I'm aware of is the old Imperial Oil site. It is extremely pound wise to build condos on transit lines - many of the jobs in the 905 are nearly impossible to serve with viable transit lines that people will want to take.
Feel free to sift through census data to find a few tracts that are defying cohort trends and the demographic transition doady mentioned (anecdotal evidence doesn't cut it since everyone else has as much random intimate knowledge as you to use). On the internet, one exception out of 100 cases is worth its weight in gold. Plenty of Toronto neighbourhoods/schools have climbing numbers of school kids...the 905 is not immune to demographic change. Parts of Toronto were only more susceptible to school closures because schools were overbuilt in the 60s-80s period - earlier and more recent schools tend to be larger, greatly reducing the chances that they'll be closed.