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The Lakeview area in the southeast corner of Mississauga is on the edge of a transformation, or at least the part of it south of Lakeshore Road is. The area, basically south of the QEW down to Lake Ontario, and between Cawthra Road and the Etobicoke Creek, has long been home to mostly single family homes north of Lakeshore Road, and industrial properties south of Lakeshore. (Some multi-storey residential buildings and commercial properties also line the major streets of Lakeshore and Dixie Road, while schools, parks, golf courses and other features typical of suburban settings also complete the area.) While there are plans afoot for a mixed-use redevelopment of the Dixie Value Mall shopping centre at Dixie and the QEW on the north side of the area, it's the section south of Lakeshore Road, however, that is currently the focus of the bulk of the transformative redevelopment proposed here.
This strip of land close to Lake Ontario was long home to the Lakeview Generating Station, a coal-powered plant that lined the shore of the lake with a hulking station from which four stacks rose high into the air from 1962 to 2006, when the plant was demolished as Ontario moved away from the polluting form of electrical power generation. In recent years, the generating station site has been remediated and prepared for transformation into a new high density, mixed-use community called Lakeview Village. Years worth of planning for the 177-acre/71.6-hectare Lakeview Village site was very controversially upended this May when the Province of Ontario acceded to a request by the developers of Lakeview Village to double its planned density, without public or municipal consultation, through the device of a Ministers Zoning Order.
Now, the lands next to the Lakeview Village site are also subject a mixed-use redevelopment proposal as well. Named Rangeview for the main east-west road through the 47.5 acre/19.2 hectare site, this master-planned proposal comes from a collaborative effort a consortium of nine diverse landowners under the name Rangeview Landowners Group, who have submitted an Zoning Amendment application and Official Plan Amendment application for the community. Collectively owning approximately 65% of the Rangeview land, the consortium includes Dorsay Development Corporation, Elgroup Holdings, Dream Unlimited, Norstar, Xtreme Tire, ILSCO of Canada Ltd, and Kotyck Investments, plus two numbered companies, 1127792 Ontario Limited, and 1207238 Ontario Limited.
Located on the south side of Lakeshore between East Avenue and Hydro Road, Rangeview is located about halfway between Long Branch GO station in Etobicoke to the east and Port Credit GO station to the west GO Transit’s Lakeshore West line, approximately 1.6km and 2.6km away respectively. Rangeview is located within a Primary Major Transit Station Area in the 2022 Regional Official Plan for Peel, owing to the plan to upgrade the MiWay Route 23 Lakeshore bus to a Bus Rapid Transit line. The Rangeview development blocks with the highest densities would therefore be located along Lakeshore Road East at primary cross-streets, supporting the area's transit infrastructure and providing easy access for residents to commuting options.
A master plan document for the greater area called Inspiration Lakeview identified three distinct character areas for the Rangeview lands within it: Rangeview West, Lakeshore, and Gateway. Each area is designed with a mix of low-rise, mid-rise, and tall buildings, providing visual diversity and housing options, which the Rangeview proposal adheres to. The Development Master Plan (DMP) for Rangeview further advances the planning for this site, proposing a network of pedestrian and cycling routes, along with landscaping designed by The MBTW Group.
According to the DMP, the project envisions a harmonious blend of residential, commercial, and public spaces, outlining a total of 21 development blocks, with 12 primarily designated for residential development, unfolding across a sprawling developable area of approximately 41 acres/16.58 hectares. The remaining nine blocks, covering an area of 6.5 acres/2.62 hectares, are allocated for parkland, which would be conveyed to the City of Mississauga.
The proposed parkland is being described as either Destination Park, Community Park, or Neighbourhood Parkette, according to its prominence, and through it residents of Rangeview and neighbouring areas would have access to a variety of active and recreational opportunities.
The DMP envisions a variety of building forms, including three-storey townhouses, four-storey stacked townhouses, and apartment buildings, meant to create an undulating skyline for the area: the townhouses are intended to provide a more intimate scale adjacent to neighbourhood green space, while, the taller buildings would be situated along the Hydro Road entrance to emphasize the corridor as the entrance to the community. Encompassing a grand total of 5,300 planned units, the Rangeview community would feature 592 units in low-rise buildings, 3,654 units i mid-rises, and 1,054 units in tall buildings.
UrbanToronto will continue to follow progress on this development, but in the meantime, you can learn more about it from our Database file, linked below. If you'd like, you can join in on the conversation in the associated Project Forum thread or leave a comment in the space provided on this page.
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