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You should zoom out and fix sheppard west of Allen as well.
Working on it!
Already made submissions as part of the redevelopment on those lands.
You should zoom out and fix sheppard west of Allen as well.
Existing arterials, if they will remain arterials, should not necessarily be targets to be urbanized. It's fine for roads to be roads. If there is no need for fast through traffic, that's fine. Otherwise, we should be looking for other streets to be urban and leave Allen to be a road. As it stands, there is very little that accesses Allen directly in that stretch, and that's as it should be.
- The west side of Allen Road could do with some linear apartment buildings to buffer this area from the noise of Wilson Subway Yard - given that's TTC/City land, shouldn't be an issue to add that, right? Also would help to urbanise Allen Road, too
Also it's a little overkill in my view adding another three signalized intersections in that area.Existing arterials, if they will remain arterials, should not necessarily be targets to be urbanized. It's fine for roads to be roads. If there is no need for fast through traffic, that's fine. Otherwise, we should be looking for other streets to be urban and leave Allen to be a road. As it stands, there is very little that accesses Allen directly in that stretch, and that's as it should be.
Why was the language so weak, given that it’s widely acknowledged that Toronto is facing an affordability crisis (even if people don’t agree on solutions?)The language was pretty weak at NYCC - but we will try to get more TEETH (and more LAND) included when it goes to full-council in a couple of weeks...
...because the Chair of NYCC is also the Local Councillor for that Ward... and the folks from the Banting Park Homeowners' Association and Bathurst Manor Action Group will be local-voters in the OCTOBER 24, 2022 Council seat elections - but nobody hoping to live in the Allen East district will be...Why was the language so weak, given that it’s widely acknowledged that Toronto is facing an affordability crisis (even if people don’t agree on solutions?)
Will the additional recommendation push CreateTO for more affordable housing? Right now the plan is something like 300 out of 3,500 units would be affordable. Less than 9% seems pretty low for City-owned land.As passed yesterday at NYCC - "City Council to request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to consult with CreateTO and the Housing Secretariat to consider bringing the Housing Now Initiative's affordable housing model to a section of the Apartment Neighbourhood and Mixed Use Neighbourhood during Allen District Plan's phases 2 and 3."
NOTE : The language was pretty weak at NYCC - but we will try to get more TEETH (and more LAND) included when it goes to full-council in a couple of weeks...
LINK - http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2021.NY25.6
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Yeah, that is the PROBLEM that we are trying to correct. All of the current ALLEN LAND policy pre-dates the HOUSING NOW program (Jan. 2019).Will the additional recommendation push CreateTO for more affordable housing? Right now the plan is something like 300 out of 3,500 units would be affordable. Less than 9% seems pretty low for City-owned land.
Nothing to see here - just another approval without shovels in the ground 3 years laterAny updates on this?