Northern Light
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Ok, the blow-out surprise in the presentation is this.......
Mx is planning an LRT on Neilson that will end (north terminus) at this development; they're at 5% design........ (side note, one the panel members is actually working on the LRT design and its apparently going to hit 10% design by year end)
So this is the idea, presumably of the Eglinton East and or Sheppard East LRT connecting to UTSC I'm assuming; earlier iterations would have shown a routing along Sheppard. I'm musing in my head though, about whether such an LRT needs a connection to the new Sheppard/McCowan SSE Station first; and also whether any routing to UTSC shouldn't follow Ellesmere such that it can serve Scarborough Centenary Hospital.
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Panel had lots of critiques.
- Lack of overall design ethos
- Lack of green space network
- Too car oriented.
- Main street retail proposal is too wide at 23M, Queen West is 18M wide, it shouldn't be wider than that.
- Concern over retail viability
- General feeling on too much density. Density described as unrealistic.
- Courtyards are enclosed
- Mews/lanes are too narrow to support trees.
- One panel member suggested removing the major streets flanking the park, and instead build out the streets internal to the residential, while having the park meet the residential.
- Consensus as defined by chair, many elements here underdeveloped and ill considered.
Vote: Unanimous non-support 9-0
Mx is planning an LRT on Neilson that will end (north terminus) at this development; they're at 5% design........ (side note, one the panel members is actually working on the LRT design and its apparently going to hit 10% design by year end)
So this is the idea, presumably of the Eglinton East and or Sheppard East LRT connecting to UTSC I'm assuming; earlier iterations would have shown a routing along Sheppard. I'm musing in my head though, about whether such an LRT needs a connection to the new Sheppard/McCowan SSE Station first; and also whether any routing to UTSC shouldn't follow Ellesmere such that it can serve Scarborough Centenary Hospital.
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Panel had lots of critiques.
- Lack of overall design ethos
- Lack of green space network
- Too car oriented.
- Main street retail proposal is too wide at 23M, Queen West is 18M wide, it shouldn't be wider than that.
- Concern over retail viability
- General feeling on too much density. Density described as unrealistic.
- Courtyards are enclosed
- Mews/lanes are too narrow to support trees.
- One panel member suggested removing the major streets flanking the park, and instead build out the streets internal to the residential, while having the park meet the residential.
- Consensus as defined by chair, many elements here underdeveloped and ill considered.
Vote: Unanimous non-support 9-0
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