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^Why is the density of the old neighbourhood a consideration?This does seem super dense for the area. Anyone able to compute the new density including the verge site to the north and compare that to existing neighborhoods? This looks like it would be close to as dense as liberty village.
Yes!I go to this theatre and would also miss it, but some of the residents reactions make me laugh.
Although I do not understand why they couldn't just incorporate a cinema in the base of one of the new condo towers. It doesn't seem like such a difficult thing to accomplish.
This density could be serviced in the interim of a high quality tram or subway; by a good BRT services along a dedicated bus lane/BRT route in one of Toronto's most congested street. For most parts of the Queensway; it has six lanes for most of the length of the street, if not all of it. By converting two of these lanes into a BRT route, you would drastically reduce the amount of cars driving along that corridor and allowing such a project to exist.
I'm all for saving the theatre, and for that matter the neighbourhood from this haphazard, poorly thought out, load of a development proposal that would create more messes than benefits but c'mon now what's this non-sense:
But if the condo towers go up, "that [sunset] will be gone, the skyline will be gone," she said. "We will live in a place where we're just staring at concrete."
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Lacking a school is one complaint but there’s something such as too dense?Lets see what the Planning Addendum says changed here, and why.
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My take.
Its still bad planning for this site.
Its still too dense, it still has inadequate parkland, and it still lacks a school.
Also the architecture remains profoundly dull and lacking in colour.
That this is what Planning achieved after negotiations speaks to their need to hire me as their negotiator.
This should have received an instant Refusal Report and if needed an all-out fight at OLT with RioCan clearly told that the City will see a cost order.
Lacking a school is one complaint but there’s something such as too dense?
Maybe if the entire Queensway is developed from royal York to sherway then transit can be prioritised. More density would also help those businesses directly on queensway as there would be more people walking. I thought more housing was good since we are in a housing crisis.Yes. Of course.
Aside from adequate sunlight/skyview, and human-scaled streetwalls.......... you want to link density to the level of public transit provided, and to the carrying capacity of the community from roads, to sewers, electricity to schools, libraries to supermarkets.
The density as proposed here is in excess of what the area can reasonably support (at least for now, and the foreseeable future)
