Amare
Senior Member
So I guess we should just keep creating X amount of Milton's, with explosive population growth without the transit/road infrastructure to handle it huh? Not everyone is commuting into Downtown Toronto. Many people will have to rely on local transit, and in this particular case 1 bus route and 1 single lane road will be nowhere near enough absorb this explosion in growth.Exactly. We should do just that.
I agree there are many areas in the city that should receive more density, that's something I dont diagree with. My point is that we cant just apply a carte blanche and say that "oh this area has a transit station, let's build 40 story buildings all over it because it has a transit station". You have to take the neighborhood characteristics and transit patterns into consideration. Otherwise, we'll end up with choked up communities that cannot handle and absorb the growth or worse yet, another case of Milton.even though i think it's very big
our area does need to grow up
living in LSV my entire life and nothing really has changed
This particular area has nowhere near the amount of infrastructure necessary to absorb this growth. Traffic is bascially going to be funnled through a single access point (Royal York Rd), as Grand Ave isnt designed to see higher amounts of traffic (which is exactly what's going to happen here).
Which would mean that stations like Oakville, Bronte, and Appleby should have far greater densities then places like Burlington and Hamilton right?Sounds good to me. Mandatory upzoning around GO stations is one of the lowest hanging fruit, so to speak, of increasing supply. The densities may not be as high as they are proposed at this station, but that's understandable. As you get closer and closer to Union, densities should (and as these proposals indicate, will) increase.