Parkshore Masterplan

[Undead]

Not a formal proposal, but a curious thought experiment from planner Brent Haynes: https://www.parkshoreto.com/

CityNews article

A quick search of the forum didn't turn up anything for this.

NB: I'm well aware this a fantasy that likely isn't connected to any serious proposal or plan. Sharing merely for awareness and discussion.

Screengrabs from the website:

Stats highlights: 7,545 units; 0.2 residential parking ratio;

 

[goodcitywhenfinished]

Im guessing the historical batting average on unsolicited masterplanned communities becoming reality is close to 0, but I do like the idea of squeezing lakeshore right up along the Gardiner.

The road as it exists today is a waste of potential space for parkland or development. Although I would much rather see this be parkland with a few new attractions than more housing next to a highway.

 

[innsertnamehere]

I think the better priority would be to "regularize" lakeshore and just add the extra land to the park.

 

[jje1000]

I think the better priority would be to "regularize" lakeshore and just add the extra land to the park.

Agreed, I do like the idea of eliminating/reducing the wide median and pushing Lakeshore up against the Gardiner to reduce the number of useless slivers of land.

I wonder if Lakeshore West past the Ex in general needs some level of reconfiguration along its length to transform it from an expressway-lite into a true urban boulevard.

Does Waterfront Toronto's jurisdiction extend this far west?

 

[innsertnamehere]

The city is planning officially at some point to rebuild it with the waterfront west LRT into a 4-lane arterial, but I think an extension of the Ontario Line would be a better project for this corridor and seems to be the way things will be moving.

Ideally the city will find a way to realign lakeshore as a 6-lane road right up against the Gardiner, but we’ll see.

 

[sixrings]

Not a formal proposal, but a curious thought experiment from planner Brent Haynes: https://www.parkshoreto.com/

CityNews article

A quick search of the forum didn't turn up anything for this.

NB: I'm well aware this a fantasy that likely isn't connected to any serious proposal or plan. Sharing merely for awareness and discussion.

Screengrabs from the website:

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Stats highlights: 7,545 units; 0.2 residential parking ratio;

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I think this makes much more sense here then at port credit. At port credit there would be a GO station and an LRT route.... but here people can walk to a street car... that makes much more sense...

 

[Northern Light]

I think the better priority would be to "regularize" lakeshore and just add the extra land to the park.

The city is planning officially at some point to rebuild it with the waterfront west LRT into a 4-lane arterial, but I think an extension of the Ontario Line would be a better project for this corridor and seems to be the way things will be moving.

Ideally the city will find a way to realign lakeshore as a 6-lane road right up against the Gardiner, but we’ll see.

The Western Waterfront Masterplan proposed exactly what you suggest, eliminating the median between Lakeshore EB and WB; shifting some of Lakeshore closer the Gardiner, (and using some of the land next to the Gardiner for parking, which would be reduced or eliminated from the south side of Lakeshore.

As you also noted, this plan was to be done in conjunction with removing 2 lanes of traffic from Lakeshore, in favour of the WWLRT.

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The plans above have gone nowhere since the Miller Era in which they were conceived. The modifications would have resulted in an additional 9 acres of parkland added, contiguously to the Western Beaches.

That plan is currently getting an update/refresh, which, as of this writing does not have any funding attached.

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[Northern Light]

Does Waterfront Toronto's jurisdiction extend this far west?

The renewal of WT's mandate is set to include both Scarborough and Etobicoke and all points in between. That has not yet been approved to my knowledge, but is/was the subject of discussion for post 2028 (when WT's mandate would otherwise end)