Toronto transit - Protected Major Transit Station Areas

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As this is a multi-location matter it seems best to create a general thread to discuss it!

"In June 2020, City Planning initiated the Growth Plan Conformity and Municipal Comprehensive Review ("the MCR") which includes the delineation of 180+ Major Transit Station Areas (MTSAs) to meet Provincial intensification requirements by July 2022. The introduction of Protected Major Transit Station Areas (PMTSAs) is part of the MCR. An equity lens is being applied to this work program that prioritizes the delineation of PMTSAs to enable the implementation of inclusionary zoning as an affordable housing tool, where market conditions could support it."

Details are at: http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2021.PH22.6 and https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/ph/bgrd/backgroundfile-165469.pdf and the maps are at: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/ph/bgrd/backgroundfile-165470.pdf

Lots to digest!

 

[TRONto]

180+ Major transit areas within Toronto? I"m surprised the number is that high. First file didn't show up and the second has much less with plenty of overlap. The areas in the maps I thought would already meet intensification targets (all downtown).. Anyone with further insight?

 

[innsertnamehere]

180+ Major transit areas within Toronto? I"m surprised the number is that high. First file didn't show up and the second has much less with plenty of overlap. The areas in the maps I thought would already meet intensification targets (all downtown).. Anyone with further insight?

These are them:

The Sheppard LRT ones are probably quite useless and should probably be removed until whatever the final transit solution along there is defined.

An MTSA is defined as a 500-800 metre radius surrounding any major transit facility. So GO station, major bus terminal, subway station, or LRT station, Bus Rapid Transit stop, basically. The required densities vary depending on the type of transit involved in each one.

 

[44 North]

Why no 509, 510, 512? Guess that'd effectively double the MTSAs if such is the case.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Streetcars aren’t defined as higher order transit.

the reality is that once the provinces subway program is finalized a bunch more will be added there too.

 

[Allandale25]

As this is a multi-location matter it seems best to create a general thread to discuss it!

"In June 2020, City Planning initiated the Growth Plan Conformity and Municipal Comprehensive Review ("the MCR") which includes the delineation of 180+ Major Transit Station Areas (MTSAs) to meet Provincial intensification requirements by July 2022. The introduction of Protected Major Transit Station Areas (PMTSAs) is part of the MCR. An equity lens is being applied to this work program that prioritizes the delineation of PMTSAs to enable the implementation of inclusionary zoning as an affordable housing tool, where market conditions could support it."

Details are at: http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2021.PH22.6 and https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/ph/bgrd/backgroundfile-165469.pdf and the maps are at: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/ph/bgrd/backgroundfile-165470.pdf

Lots to digest!

Since only the below stations are mentioned in the report, I assume the rest of them will be done in a future report?

 

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Since only the below stations are mentioned in the report, I assume the rest of them will be done in a future report?

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One assumes so.

 

[afransen]

300 is pretty low for Spadina Station. Surely it's already pushing that level now.

 

[allengeorge]

I would have liked to see the level being proposed relative to the level they are right now. Also, the places that have a minimum 1.0 FSI - what's the FSI of the stuff that's there already? FSI also doesn't quite capture utilization, no?

 

[W. K. Lis]

Streetcars aren’t defined as higher order transit.

the reality is that once the provinces subway program is finalized a bunch more will be added there too.

No buses are the lowest order.

Buses are a low order of transit.

Streetcars are a medium order of transit.

Light rail are a high order of transit.

Subway/metro are the highest order of transit.