jaycola
Active Member
It looks like with plans to extend the subway north along Yonge St, Vaughan and Markham are finally working together on a plan to transform the old Thornhill village into a place that would attract pedestrians.
http://www.yorkregion.com/article/88124
Burying the hydro lines and encouraging streetscape development appear to be key to the plan.
With the large scale developments south at at Yonge and Doncaster http://urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=667&highlight=7171 and north at Yonge and Langstaff http://urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=7883&highlight=gateway, encouraging development along this strip seems like a sensible option for York Region.
Not included on the web article but in the print version was a quote from councillor Alan Shefman,
"You don't have to be an oracle to figure the other strip malls along the stretch-to say nothing of the vast field of car dealerships on the Vaughan side- will go the way of the dodo sooner rather than later"
The car dealerships sit on a site nearly 3 (based on my visual observation only) times the size of the Yonge Doncaster site directly across the road.
That site could be a key development for the area.
http://www.yorkregion.com/article/88124
Burying the hydro lines and encouraging streetscape development appear to be key to the plan.
With the large scale developments south at at Yonge and Doncaster http://urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=667&highlight=7171 and north at Yonge and Langstaff http://urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=7883&highlight=gateway, encouraging development along this strip seems like a sensible option for York Region.
Not included on the web article but in the print version was a quote from councillor Alan Shefman,
"You don't have to be an oracle to figure the other strip malls along the stretch-to say nothing of the vast field of car dealerships on the Vaughan side- will go the way of the dodo sooner rather than later"
The car dealerships sit on a site nearly 3 (based on my visual observation only) times the size of the Yonge Doncaster site directly across the road.
That site could be a key development for the area.