yrt+viva=1system
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1.13.2024
I know many of you on this forum are downtown focused and turn their nose at anything in the suburbs. But in this area of mature Thornhill, this long term project along with the neighbourhood is developing far more balanced than other areas in the GTA from my uneducated observation. Heck if you look at VMC it lacks a lot of the utilities and forms to make it a livable area.
This area has the school network in place (elementary and secondary), multiple options for groceries and despite the poor transit frequencies by YRT it does have a greater concentration of various transit routes beyond the Yonge corridor. Yes it does have your typical suburban single family homes but it is built on the Garden City Movement form which was driven by developers 30-50 years ago who needed to design the area so that people can walk to the synagogues on Jewish Sabbath (community migration from Forest Hill). I can almost bet that most people didn’t know this.
Majority of the neighborhood are connected by a network of parks and pathways that you don’t find in the newer subdivisions. It is walkable unlike many other parts of southern York Region. This is what distinguishes it and is more livable than other parts of Vaughan or even just north of the area (eg. Thornhill Woods).
My apologizes for the rant, I feel that majority of UTers just throw anything in the 905 under the bus without understanding what changes are happening to change a mature suburban neighbourhood.
I know many of you on this forum are downtown focused and turn their nose at anything in the suburbs. But in this area of mature Thornhill, this long term project along with the neighbourhood is developing far more balanced than other areas in the GTA from my uneducated observation. Heck if you look at VMC it lacks a lot of the utilities and forms to make it a livable area.
This area has the school network in place (elementary and secondary), multiple options for groceries and despite the poor transit frequencies by YRT it does have a greater concentration of various transit routes beyond the Yonge corridor. Yes it does have your typical suburban single family homes but it is built on the Garden City Movement form which was driven by developers 30-50 years ago who needed to design the area so that people can walk to the synagogues on Jewish Sabbath (community migration from Forest Hill). I can almost bet that most people didn’t know this.
Majority of the neighborhood are connected by a network of parks and pathways that you don’t find in the newer subdivisions. It is walkable unlike many other parts of southern York Region. This is what distinguishes it and is more livable than other parts of Vaughan or even just north of the area (eg. Thornhill Woods).
My apologizes for the rant, I feel that majority of UTers just throw anything in the 905 under the bus without understanding what changes are happening to change a mature suburban neighbourhood.
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