Oakville Distrikt Station | 184.8m | 58s | Distrikt Development | BDP Quadrangle

detalumis said:
"Sorry Oakville time to grow up; Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton and the rest of the surrounding GTA have been more than pulling their own weight when it comes to absorbing population growth."

Toronto's population increase was 2.3% during the last census, Mississauga's population decreased by .5%. Oakville's went up by 10.3 in five years. It's gone up another 10% in only 3 years. Overcapacity schools, overcapacity hospital and very poor shopping just to name a few things. You can't live in a condo in that location and go anywhere else in town without a car. You can't go to Coronation Park. You can't go to Gairloch Gardens. You're basically a prisoner. If I wanted to live in a tall condo I would go to Toronto where I could walk to stuff and where there was a subway.
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Yes Oakville has increased in population quite significantly over the past few years. I'm not disputing that. What i'm saying is that Oakville needs to grow UP and densify.

Most of Oakville's growth has come from "gentle density" pushes (ie: single-family housing developments) throughout the "town". To which residents barely bat an eye to and whine about. Toronto for instance on the other hand, has a few clusters that have accommodated most of the city's growth (ie: Yonge-Eglinton, South Etobicoke, the Highway 401 cluster in North York, etc.).

The point is, most of the infrastructure in the GTA is overwhelmed in one way or another (thanks to various governments diddling around and wasting time/money on various idiotic policies, instead of focusing on properly absorbing population growth). However, the region as a whole is still growing and we cant keep just shoving growth down in small geographic clusters that are literally bursting at the seems (ie: Humber Bay, Yonge and Eglinton, St.James Town, Liberty Village), while we have vast plots of land in Oakville that go untouched because "Midtown will become an unattractive centre of a doughnut that residents only use for sleeping and who will go somewhere else for work and recreation".
 
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Exactly.

Also the argument against density in midtown could be used for VMC or MCC. Those areas don't have much around them, so why are we densifying around them? VMC doesn't have a nice park anywhere near it, and MCC doesn't even have rail service. But these areas will be getting these things in the future. Sure Midtown doesn't have great transit or parks right now, but all of those are plans for the future. Midtown is planning for what Oakville will have, not what it does at the moment.

I highly recommend taking a look at the Draft OPA for Midtown prepared by the Town of Oakville. From parks to schools to retail, it's a really good way to get an idea of what midtown will look like and what they are doing to make it a complete community. Really the only way the TOC differs from the OPA is in tower height, which as you can imagine in Oakville, residents and council are very against.
 
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