It actually still is the densest area in the city, just check the Census stats I linked above… but the point is that it is not the only really dense area, and that there are many others nearly as dense now…St James Town might once have been the densest neighborhood in Toronto, but that was before City Place, the Entertainment District and Humber Bay Shores came into existence. Even Yonge & Eglinton may be denser than St James Town these days. I love how people quote stats like 'Yonge Street is the longest street in the world" as if we were still in 1990s.
…and it's not the density that's issue on its own, it's how well the area is provided with services and reasonable accommodation, and that does need to be addressed. Simply saying "no more development" won't help the area. Well-planned public and private reinvestment could.
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