No, I am not that person you were referring to.
Not everyone who holds a different view from yours has an evil agenda...
Honestly, most members here participate in the discussion because they care about the city, albeit with often quite different approaches. Please stop acting superior and trying to muffle different voices.
For me specifically, I don't have an anti-heritage agenda. I am just tired of the low rise dominance in areas within and near the core. Low rise means the city has to sprawl bigger for the same number of people, which makes providing services and infrastructure increasingly difficult and costly. My ideal Toronto will be a downtown core which is primarily highrises (15-50 stories) and a midtown including east and west areas close to downtown mostly middle rises (above 4 stories). The suburbs can be low rise but people who choose to live there need to pay for their fair share of transit costs (pay more for taking a 60 minutes subway ride than a 6 minute one).
Now we see a massive supply of highrises in the core, a trend which should be celebrate, not to frown upon. Yes there is infrastructure problem but it is futile to wait. The city will realise the need to upgrade soon enough. A denser downtown means a more efficient and vibrant downtown, isn't it what we all wanted? With more residents, we shouldn't worry about the lack of amenities. Business will follow as soon as they smell the money.
As to heritage preservation, the issue is how to define what is heritage. Are all 2 story buildings built prior to 1950 automatically classified as "heritage"? Some seem to think so. We have to look at these on a case by case basis. In most cases, replacing a few 3 story houses occupied by 15 people with a 30 story tower which will serve as home for 200 in the core is totally worth it and makes sense, even when the tower itself is mediocre.
A case in point is Bathurst St north of Queen. Being literally a downtown street, it looks like a complete suburb, lined with nothing but two story homogeneous houses all the way to Bloor and beyond (and they are not as grand as many on Jarvis, which are indisputable heritage). I think it is a huge waste of space. Maybe you think they are heritage as well but I just don't see it that way. I would rather have all midrise apartment buildings ranging from 6 to 12 stories allowing a lot more people to be able to live to close to the core rather than this boring stretch of houses serving nobody but a couple hundred privileged who happen to inherit the house from their parents.
