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Mississauga lays groundwork for waterfront redevelopment
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/mississauga-lays-groundwork-for-waterfront-redevelopment/article1990667/

ADRIAN MORROW
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Apr. 18, 2011 10:54PM EDT
Last updated Monday, Apr. 18, 2011 11:00PM EDT

Families stroll along the banks of canals and sip coffee at sidewalk cafes; young couples walk from nearby condominiums to take in plays and exhibitions in theatres and galleries on an island; others sunbathe on a long pier jutting into Lake Ontario.

This is Mississauga’s ambitious vision for the former Lakeview Generating Station site, a redevelopment that moved a step closer to reality Monday with the tabling of a consultants’ report that will form the basis for designing a master-planned, mixed-use, transit-oriented neighbourhood on a 100-hectare site along the city’s waterfront.......

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The creek shown at the right side of the map is not the Etobicoke Creek, it's the Applewood Creek. Naughty Globe and Mail.

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http://www5.mississauga.ca/marketin...nloads/Inspiration-Lakeview-April-18-2011.pdf
report begins at page 11

I think we can rename this thread to Inspiration Lakeview, because that's what the entire community will be named.

Major Highlights:
- restoration of Serson Creek
- reconfiguration of the marina breakwall
- stormwater canals exposed (looks like there's gonna be lots of bridges!)
- water canals for ice skating, canoeing, etc.
- Coal Hill for tobogganing, etc.
- establishment of Green Recreation Corridor
- more open spaces (3 public squares)
- pier walks
- a new island for cultural purposes
- Rangeview Road will become a major arterial and transit spine
- Lakeshore will become a green boulevard
- transit spine along Rangeview Road (Waterfront West LRT or a new Lakeshore rapid transit)
- seasonal local bus or trolley encircling Lakeview
- southward extension of Ogden Avenue will become Lakeview's main street
- southward extension of Dixie Road will become Lakeside Drive, to wrap around the wastewater treatment plant
- lakefill to create a green water's edge for strolling
- possible university or college campus
- seasonal FERRY SERVICE!!! :D (hopefully to Port Credit, Downtown TO, St. Catharines, and Niagara-on-the-Lake)
 
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This is like waterfront Toronto all over again, on a smaller scale.

Be prepared for a long haul! But there's great potential here.
 
http://www.mississauga.com/news/article/1030697--vision-closer-to-reality

Chris Clay|Jun 20, 2011 - 2:09 PM
Vision closer to reality

Mississauga residents will be able to enjoy a new view of the city if everything goes according to plan with redevelopment of the Lakeview Generating Station lands.
Mayor Hazel McCallion and Ward 1 City Councillor Jim Tovey were joined by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) staff as well as Mississauga South MPP and Minister of Labour Charles Sousa at a press conference this morning at Lakefront Promenade Park to announce the parties had signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to develop a shared vision for the nearly 100 hectares of land.
Tovey, who called the moment "incredibly emotional," said now that a memorandum has been signed he wants to move forward on the project. OPG will provide the City of Mississauga its studies and environmental reports on the lands and allow the City access to conduct its own technical studies.
Once the proper research has been conducted, the City can start formulating a master plan for the site; it will determine land use zoning and further define its redevelopment plans during the process.
Tovey hopes to see the plan completed within the next 18 months and construction to begin on parts of the redevelopment in two years.
"Today is the biggest day we've had so far in the history of this site because it commits the Province, OPG and the City toward developing a shared vision," said Tovey, who spearheaded a goal of developing the property when he headed the Lakeview Ratepayers' Association, prior to being elected.
Tovey was speaking from the site's kilometre-long pier that's been closed to the public for decades. He hopes to expedite access to it and would like a trail built to allow the public to take in what he describes as a stunning view of Mississauga as well as Toronto's downtown.
"It's inspirational and few people have had a chance to walk down and see the city (skyline)," said Tovey. "I'm excited about this and we want people to get excited as we continue to build an amazing city."
In 2008, former deputy premier and minister of energy George Smitherman declared the property would never again be home to a power plant. Sousa confirmed that vision when he said today's announcement was the "next chapter in Lakeview's post-power story.
"We all know Lakeview was the site of a coal plant for 40 years ... but now that's behind us," said Sousa. "The community is excited about the great potential and opportunity to be found here."
The cost to redevelop the site has yet to be announced, and funding plans have not been specified.
McCallion, who previously said the City would ask the provincial and federal governments for funding support, said involvement of the private sector is also an option.
Earlier this year, the City came up with plans to redevelop the property through the Inspiration Lakeview: A Vision and Next Steps document. It incorporates ideas from residents and was used to create a list of core principles that will serve as a point of reference throughout development of the master plan.
As part of the process, the OPG will draft a recommendation for the future ownership of the lands.
cclay@mississauga.net
 
How Mississauga's waterfront got ahead: by learning from Toronto's mistakes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/globe-to/how-mississaugas-waterfront-got-ahead-by-learning-from-torontos-mistakes/article2099283/

ADRIAN MORROW
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Saturday, Jul. 16, 2011 6:00AM EDT

Within a generation, a huge swath of industrial land on Lake Ontario will be transformed: Canals will run alongside streets with sidewalk cafes; mid-rise condominiums will put the neighbourhood's urban design head and shoulders over the forest of impersonal glass towers sprouting elsewhere across Greater Toronto; a deep-water heating-and-cooling system will use the nearby lake to cut the area's carbon emissions.

It sounds like something a metropolis such as Toronto might plan for redeveloping its derelict port lands, but this is actually Mississauga's vision for the site of the former Lakeview Generating Station east of Cawthra Road.

While Mayor Rob Ford and his allies cast aspersions on both the city's strategy of using public investment to transform the lakefront into a series of urban, mixed-use communities and on Waterfront Toronto, the agency charged with implementing it, Mississauga is lauding that very model and seeking to emulate it.

Read on via the link....
 
Jasonzed said:
How Mississauga's waterfront got ahead: by learning from Toronto's mistakes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...arning-from-torontos-mistakes/article2099283/

ADRIAN MORROW
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Saturday, Jul. 16, 2011 6:00AM EDT

Within a generation, a huge swath of industrial land on Lake Ontario will be transformed: Canals will run alongside streets with sidewalk cafes; mid-rise condominiums will put the neighbourhood's urban design head and shoulders over the forest of impersonal glass towers sprouting elsewhere across Greater Toronto; a deep-water heating-and-cooling system will use the nearby lake to cut the area's carbon emissions.

It sounds like something a metropolis such as Toronto might plan for redeveloping its derelict port lands, but this is actually Mississauga's vision for the site of the former Lakeview Generating Station east of Cawthra Road.

While Mayor Rob Ford and his allies cast aspersions on both the city's strategy of using public investment to transform the lakefront into a series of urban, mixed-use communities and on Waterfront Toronto, the agency charged with implementing it, Mississauga is lauding that very model and seeking to emulate it.

Read on via the link....
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Many issues with that article ... firstly a lot of the politics seen at the municipal level were not seen when this start years ago ... how can one assume Mississauga won't see this with new councils years from now ... they just can't ...

Secondly, everything else seems just about the same, expect the funding, which while I like there idea there issues as well, firstly generally speeking of the federal or provincial governments particape they'll want to be involved to a certain degree so to assume the city can control everything is probably a stretch. Moreover, though it caused a lot slow down having other levels over government adds a lot of polotical cushioning i.e. the point about the current administration in our city ... they don't have as much power to stop things due to the levels of funding ... sure they can still have some effect.

I'm not sure if lakeview faces the sheer amount of soil contamination the Toronto waterfront did ... that's a huge issue that needed a lot of public involvement to make lands for attractive to private developers.

I agree it seems like there was so much wasted time over the last 10/15 years - maybe even longer. But for these giant projects that happens, some of it good to make sure things get right and others due to bureaucracy
 
http://www.mississauga.com/news/article/1569936--new-waterfront-park-takes-shape-in-lakeview

Joseph Chin | Jan 23, 2013 - 3:39 PM
New waterfront park takes shape in Lakeview

Within five or six years, a now derelict and inaccessible stretch of the Mississauga waterfront will be transformed into an inviting public space boasting a curvy cobble beach and a variety of habitats for birds and fish to flourish.
More than 100 residents turned out last night at the Mississauga Seniors’ Centre for what was drily billed as the commencement of the environmental assessment of the Lakeview Waterfront Connection Project.
The audience, however, got an opportunity to get a first glimpse of the project.
“We have a big goal,” Ken Dion, senior project manager for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, told the gathering. “Basically, we want to bring people to the waterfront and (have them) walk the waterfront.”
Over the last 100 years or so, Dion noted, the shoreline, which stretches from Etobicoke Creek to the eastern edge of the Ontario Power Generation lands, was degraded and “lost.”
The goal is to create a new natural park and, significantly, close a glaring gap on the waterfront trail running across the city. Once completed, it will allow the trail to meander around the G.E. Booth Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The Region of Peel, Credit Valley Conservation, City of Mississauga and the TRCA are partners in the project.
Five different designs were presented for public feedback. Some two million cubic metres of fill, mostly excavated from the Hanlan feedermain project, will be used in construction of the park, which will jut out into Lake Ontario.
Normally, says Ward 1 Councillor Jim Tovey, who represents the area, that fill would be trucked and dumped outside the city. That would have cost Peel some $75 million in trucking and dumping fees. Instead, the money saved will be spent on construction of the park.
“It’s great that we’re able to make use of this clean fill,” said Tovey. “At the very least we will take 50,000 diesel truckloads off the roads every year (during construction of the park)."
The designs presented feature pleasing blocks of wetlands, treed swamps, forests, meadows and, of course, a cobble beach with headlands. Three of the designs feature off-shore rocky islands to mitigate soil erosion. A bonus is that there will be an opportunity to revitalize Serson Creek, which flows through middle of the study area. Currently, a number of factors prevent fish from migrating into the creek from the lake.
“Basically, Serson is just a ditch now,” said Tovey.
Dion notes an EA is usually done to eliminate or reduce a project’s potential impact on the environment before it begins.
“We’re flipping it around by taking a degraded piece of property and improving it,” he said.
By April, the preferred option will be revealed. If the EA passes muster with the Ministry of the Environment, construction is expected to start in June 2014.
 
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