Northern Light
Superstar
A member motion to next week's meeting of Council is aiming to repurpose a vacant land holding of Green P near the hospital site, at 1220 Wilson.
That site, per Streetview:
I will give that its own thread in due course.............
But what has me here, is that in the text of that motion there is a reference to adding a new residential facility aimed at housing the homeless on the campus of the hospital:
I thought that merited being parked here til we have sufficient detail to dedicate a thread to that project.
I also wanted to make sure it was flagged to @HousingNowTO
That site, per Streetview:
I will give that its own thread in due course.............
But what has me here, is that in the text of that motion there is a reference to adding a new residential facility aimed at housing the homeless on the campus of the hospital:
I thought that merited being parked here til we have sufficient detail to dedicate a thread to that project.
I also wanted to make sure it was flagged to @HousingNowTO
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
Yeah, we would need to dig back a dozen years or so to find the Townhouse proposal for 1220 & 1222 WILSON AVE that a company called OLD ORCHARD PROPERTIES had proposed during the Rob Ford years...
This was back in the day where City Councillors could ask "helpful" folks on the Toronto Parking Authority board and executive to use their "parking meter slush-fund" to buy-out developers who had controversial projects proposed in their wards.
City (via TPA) paid ~$3.85-MILLION for those Two (2) x Bungalow Lots in JUNE 2015 -
TIME-LAPSE (2009) - a couple of well-maintained bungalows.
TIME-LAPSE (2014) - Western bungalow removed, before the City (TPA) purchased the site.
Did the PSYCHIC in the remaining bungalow predict what was coming..??
TIME-LAPSE (2016) - After the City (TPA) purchased the site... Eastern bungalow is boarded-up and snow fencing to keep people out.
TIME-LAPSE (2019) - no more bungalows.
Important to note that ONLY the Toronto Parking Authority (TPA) can tear-down houses "at will" - without having any rebuild permits, etc. because the creation of new surface parking-lots is considered a PUBLIC-UTILITY.
No re-zoning required.
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
APRIL 2017
NY21.11 - Request to Demolish the Residential Building at 1220 Wilson Avenue
"A municipally owned or operated public parking lot is a permitted use in all zones in the City-wide Zoning By-law 569-2013"
...to be fair to Councillor Pasternak in 2024, he "inherited" this parking-lot site from former Councillor Maria Augimeri when the City Council wards were consolidated in 2018.
Northern Light
Superstar
This is why I flag you...........its not just that we share broad policy goals (though sometimes disagree on how to achieve them)..........or that you're a really nice guy and swell brunch companion, LOL